ABSTRACT
One of the treasures of a “turn-of-the-century” child was a small box bearing the inscription Mayblox. The box contained eight wooden cubes, each of which displayed the six colors, red, yellow, white, purple, green, and black — one color to a face. The child might stumble for hours before solving the puzzle, but the Mayblox poses further questions of a more general nature than the construction of one suitable cube. This chapter seeks the relationship of the small cubes to each other and to the larger parent cube. The parent cube must exhibit these six colors one to a face and can be identified in a diagram by the letters on each face where hidden faces are identified by dashed letters. The small cube will operate as a representative of the eight cubes since its position in the upper right corner can be changed by revolving the cube about different axes.
