Hi Everyone,

A few of you may have noticed that I had a couple new (unpublished) puzzles with me at the recent IPP35. One of them was this puzzle, the Crystal Transformer. It is based on Oskar's Rhombdo Transformer, but with deeper cuts at the faces resulting in a "crystal" slice pattern where all cuts meet at the centers of the faces. Like Oskar's puzzle it has the deep-cut skewb axes, and those turns can be combined with shallow turns on each of the 12 faces, for a total of 16 axes.

Due to the very thin pieces on the edges and a very delicate mechanism the puzzle must be handled with care. It is fully functional, but it does pop relatively easily if cuts aren't aligned well. In addition, the wedge-shaped edge pieces tend to lag behind while turning, so they need to be pushed along. This is definitely not a speed puzzle, but it is (I think) quite interesting and beautiful.

Here is a link to the video.

If you want to own a copy of the puzzle you will need to buy two sets, available here: Set A, and Set B.

Finally, here are the pictures: Enjoy!
Dave

Great looking puzzle. Nice job Dave!

I love it! I suspect this puzzle is quite hard to unjumble. Eric's Rhombdo is one of my favorite puzzles. One day I'm going to get around to playing with Oskar's and your variants of it .

Hard to decide what I like more: The puzzle itself or the second image.