The Hitchhiker's Cube
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This puzzle is inspired by Vladimir's Cheese - a puzzle made by Oskar van Deventer. It has exactly the same justice factor as Vladimir's Cheese if we don't count the core - 28,57% visibility. That shape came naturally when the inventor deleted the stuff from a pentagonal prism that is in the way of that cool move of petals diving inside the core of the puzzle and he loved it. The problem was if it had to be any challenge two colour stickers had to be used and the inventor didn't want that. Then came the idea that the phrase "Don't Panic" is exactly 10 letters and with it the idea to make this a sort of picture cube. So now it has two levels of difficulty: easy - solve the colours (many solved states), and hard - solve the phrase "DON'T PANIC". The solving has a surprising twist to it. It is a 10 segment cheese with half the grips deleted but you need the missing grips to perform the algorithms for the 10 segment cheese, so you have to invent new algorithms and that makes it even more fun. Diameter: 85 mm Links
 
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