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Unbandaged Square-1
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A Square-1 which was complete unbandaged. The result is a prism with twelve segments and three layers.

This puzzle can be explained as a Square-2 (which is a Square-1 with split up segments) which middle layer was split up. The result is equivalent to a deepcut dodecagonal prism with three layers.

The creator describes the mechanism like this:
The mechanism I used is a shells buildup of three puzzles: Rubik's Cheese, a Hexagonal Prism, and the Square-2. With some internal bandaging on one of the cheese slices I was able to achieve a mechanism that doesn't misalign (at least, it's not supposed to misalign). Due to the sharp 30°-angles of the Square-2 slices, the mechanism can jam and wiggle around internally a bit. For that reason, it's often difficult to turn the three out of the six slices of the puzzle that correspond with the Hexagonal Prism shell. Also, I had some problems with tolerance in the design. The inner Rubik's Cheese slice is way too loose (mainly from the nylon breaking in), and the outermost layer is way too tight.

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Thank you to the following people for their assistance in helping collect the information on this page: Andreas Nortmann, Lawrence Cuthbert.

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