The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections
By Stewart T. Coffin

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Chapter 3 - Cubic Block Puzzles
The Solid Tetrominoes

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Note that four cubes can be joined eight different ways. Packing a set of these pieces into a 4 x 4 x 2 box makes a neat but quite easy puzzle. There are said to be 1,390 possible solutions. They also pack into a 2 x 2 x 8 box, and can be split into two 2 x 2 x 4 subassemblies.

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