You know those geniuses that can solve a Rubiks cube in like 20 seconds? This puzzle would drive even them insane. The Petaminx is a handmade puzzle by puzzle maker Jason Smith. It sort of resembles the Rubik’s cube.
It just happens to have twice as many sides and many more pieces to align. In all there are 975 parts and 1,212 stickers. It took mere 75 hours to build and that included the molding process and the placing each of those stickers by hand. Check out a video of this amazing puzzle below.
I’d be interested to see just how many Rubiks Cube geeks could actually solve this thing.
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DIY, Dodecahedral, Homemade, Petaminx, puzzle, Rubiks Cube
wheres the video?!?!
anonymous,
Only one has ever been made and as far as I know it’s impossible to solve within the time of a youtube video
I could solve it if I got one, but it would take multiple hours
looks like this one:
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12010
made by drewseph and distributed for free has gotten into the hands hands of someone who makes money out of a free file.
how sad.
@ eok
looks like drewseph is working with the toymaker
http://www.puzzleforge.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=57
absolutely crazy!
well.. to answer the author’s question, pretty much anyone that can solve an ordinary 5x5x5 cube could solve this.
solve time: longer than a 9x9x9
complexity: equal to a 5x5x5
not that difficult. just an engineering marvel.
I can solve it
achually, this puzzle is exactly the same as the gigminx only bigger. you solve it with the same stratagy as a megaminx. solve the centers, then put the outsides together. solve it like the megaminx/gigaminx.
It wouldn’t drive them insane
This is not hard to solve. I promise you I could solve it within a few hours right now, having never touched one like this. I have a Gigaminx and Megaminx, and once you know how to do those, anything larger just takes longer but isn’t really more difficult.
Thanks to Google and YouTube, you too can learn how to solve something like this. I figured out the smaller dodecahedral puzzles within a day thanks to some good videos.