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Petaminx Dodecahedral Puzzle Would Make Ernő Rubik Cry
OhGizmo! —
By Andrew Liszewski
I think “whoa!” is the only response you can really have when you first see this amazing dodecahedral puzzle created by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge.com. While the original design was created by Andrew Cormier, the completed Petaminx puzzle you see above was cast and hand-assembled by Jason, who clearly has the patience of a saint. So what goes into a masterpiece like this? All-in-all there are 975 individual parts not including the 1,212 stickers that each had to be placed by hand, one at a time. Overall the Petaminx took about 75 hours to complete including the molding process, ...
Petaminx Dodecahedral Puzzle to Test Your Brainpower and Your Sanity
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The Petaminx is a handmade puzzle by puzzle maker Jason Smith. It has a passing resemblance to the Rubik’s cube except that it has twice as many sides and a whole lot more pieces to align. In total there are 975 parts and 1,212 stickers, but surprisingly the build-time was only 75 hours and that included the molding process and placing each of those stickers by hand.
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[Puzzleforge via Make, Oh Gizmo!]
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