  Alon, Bohman, Holzman and Kleitman proved that any partition of a
$d$-dimensional discrete box into proper sub-boxes must consist of at least
$2^d$ sub-boxes. Recently, Leader, Mili\'{c}evi\'{c} and Tan considered the
question of how many odd-sized proper boxes are needed to partition a
$d$-dimensional box of odd size, and they asked whether the trivial
construction consisting of $3^d$ boxes is best possible. We show that
approximately $2.93^d$ boxes are enough, and consider some natural
generalisations.
