Folding puzzles

Juozas Granskas

Lithuanian Cities

IPP 28 Exchange / Prague

designed by Juozas Granskas

made by Juozas Granskas

designed by Juozas Granskas

made by Juozas Granskas

Chimeras

IPP 30 Exchange / Osaka + Hakone

designed by Juozas Granskas

made by Juozas Granskas

Pantazis Houlis

Eledone from Kastellorizo

IPP 28 Exchange / Prague

designed by Pantazis Houlis

made by Pantazis Houlis

The Magic Octopus

Galaxius

IPP 31 Exchange / Berlin

Mr Twisty

IPP 32 Exchange / Washington, D.C.

designed by Pantazis Houlis

made by Pantazis Houlis

The Kastellorizo Puzzle

IPP 33 Exchange / Narita, Japan

designed by Pantazis Houlis

made by Pantazis Houlis

Magic Rings

Magic Ring

Magic Ring

Other designers

Chess 16

made by Lingao Toys

MAGIC

Lovely Heart

Lord of the Rings

made by Lingao Toys

Block Chain

Chinese Cartoon

KANGOEROE 2010

designed by Louis Coolen

made by Allard Walker

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

Literature

Ashwin Belur / Blair Whitaker Rubik's Magic

Christoph Bandelow Das Geheimnis der magischen Ringe

Serhiy Grabarchuk Age of Puzzles Paperfoldings