Mind-blowing homemade dodecahedral puzzle

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By Gareth Branwyn
Posted 2009/03/03 @ 1:26 am
Category Fun & Games, Workshop

This incredible dodecahedral “Petaminx” twisty puzzle was all hand-cast, hand-assembled, and hand-colored (okay, “hand-stickered,” but still…).

The Making of the Petaminx

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7 Responses to Mind-blowing homemade dodecahedral puzzle

zof on March 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm said:

This should be titled “And you thought an 8 sided puzzle with 72 colored squares was hard to solve.”

On a side note I have a feeling the person who designed this would be an expert at torture.

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Zach on March 4th, 2009 at 6:11 am said:

Zof, I want to know where you buy puzzles, I recall a fun 6 sided puzzle… with 54 colored squares… but the almighty eight sided puzzle has eluded me all these years..

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Disjunto on March 4th, 2009 at 11:24 am said:

8 Sided puzzles for Zach: http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/pdb-search.cgi?act=sec&key=7

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Zach on March 4th, 2009 at 2:58 pm said:

Thank the heavens for you Disjunto! My life dream suddenly becomes a reality

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Briman on March 10th, 2009 at 10:16 am said:

I suggest you leave the corners and center of each side black to make it harder to solve.

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conor on March 10th, 2009 at 3:27 pm said:

This has so many practical uses, like a butt-plug, a medium-light throwing missile, a paperweight, a dog’s toy, a fake eye for giant squid and even as an effective stroke inducing ‘stubborn nerd’ killer. Alas, it will most likely remain forever a humble impossibly difficult puzzle for one man and a talking point for the millions who stumbled upon this like myself. how boring.

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Faye on March 11th, 2009 at 3:10 am said:

Where can I buy this creation, I am in the uk, please email me on jamminonthemoon@yahoo.com if you know and I would be most grateful
x

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