Huh. I wonder if you setting up a board game might be an easier unstructured problem. If you've got experience with board games, you can usually figure out most of the rules by just looking at the pieces; where do the same symbols appear, and what other symbols appear with them?
Still sounds super hard, but might be easier than the same (matching corresponding shapes) in 3D.
Still sounds super hard, but might be easier than the same (matching corresponding shapes) in 3D.