Folding puzzles

mindjewel

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 30 minutes

The first task is to unfold the Mindjewel. This is relatively easy to achieve so that within a short amount of time

you hold a snake like object in your hands. The aim is to rebuild the original crystal.

The technique is especially interesting:

Each five-sided pyramid has two slots on its pentagonal base. The slots vary in their diameter and can pierce up to three edges.

A gum cord passes through the slots. This gum cord is responsible for the cohesion of the puzzle.

The twenty pyramids are linked to each other like on a chain. The slots of neighbouring pyramids are opposite each other.

If you have a pyramid in front of you, which has three edges pierced by a slot, then any of the three pierced edges can be placed

next to the neighbouring pyramid.

Therefore, the number of the possible paths is:

2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * (2*3) * (2*2) * 2 * (2*2) * (3*2) * 2 = 36864

The number of combinations is relatively high. Nevertheless, the puzzle is not very difficult.

The puzzle can be easily mastered within a half hour,although there is only one path

which leads to the surface of a pentagon dodecahedron.

Puzzle Review

designed by Alexander Polonsky

made by Recent Toys