Hey everyone,

This is my first puzzle of the day (i'll be posting two today and more soon). I know I haven't been active but I had my baccalaureate during the last month, so obviously I couldn't really go on twistypuzzles.com

I'd like to thank Aleh who allowed me to make this puzzle, which I really wanted to make since the idea was posted on TP.com

I actually proposed to make a deal on sharing equally any profit made from this puzzle, and he refused, so I'd like to thank him for that as well. Yes, that means it's now going to be available at shapeways

@Aleh: You can, of course get one without markup with dyeing stickering and assembly charges free

Buy at Shapeways

Video

Stickers are provided by Oliver Nagy

Enjoy!

- Greg

Really nice , great work.

Nice job! It looks like it is quite the puzzle!

Thanks, I appreciate it

By the way, the puzzle is excatly the size of a pocket (20x60x60mm) The first puzzle I ever literally carried around

We should have seen this one coming, it's been your avatar for as long as I've been on here

Good job! It actually reminds me of the 3x3x3 + redi cube that was posted recently, I wonder if a floppy/redi combo would be somehow possible?

Actually my avatar is a mental block the angles are not the same (45 for mine/54 for the mental block) I put it up because i'm gonna post about a micro mental block soon

A floppy + redi combo isn't possible, just fyi, since the redi has to be cubic

Well, it would be a simpler redi. I understand it has to be a cube, but maybe only 4 redi corners would fit? It seemed interesting.

Anyway, I didn't know that a Mental Block wasn't a cube as I'm not that experienced with it. Can you point out the (probably really obvious) difference between it and yours?

Here is a picture of a Mental Block.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2476/mental01.jpg

The best way to think of the difference between the two is a Mental Block is a shape mod of a Skewb. This puzzle is a shape mod of a 2x2x3.

By the way does this puzzle have a name? Based on these two threads (here and here) I believe this puzzle got its start in the iPhone app Twistyhedron. What is this puzzle named in that app?

If it isn't named there... how about shorten Mental Block + Floppy hybrid to Mental Flop?

Carl

Thanks to Rob, we now have a great name for this puzzle

Rob? Did someone mention Mental Flop before me?

Carl

Ooooh my bad, he asked me something by PM and mentioned the mental flop, I had previously skipped that part in your answer. My bad

Thanks Carl

Great puzzle!

Is the current pricing correct though?

White stong and flexible = $58.82
Black srong and flexible = $33.76
White strong and flexible polished = $30.76

Shouldn't the white material be cheaper than the black? And the polished is usually more expensive than the other options isn't it?

Yeah that was a small mistake with all the new shapeways pricings, corrected... Now all colors and polished are availabe for 70$

Looks like i should have just bought it instead of waiting for you to correct the price
$70 for a floppy is too steep for my pocket i'm afraid

Oh well, dagnabbit! I'll know better next time

Which floppy ?

OK, so the price is now $58.82? Seems a bit random!
Unfortunately i'm in Europe so by the time i pay import fees and the dhl delivery charge and then buy stickers for it......

58.82 is without VAT
70 with VAT

I never had import fees and i'm in europe, as for the stickers they are 6.00 E or something, including shipping

If I'm right you only need to pay Import fee if you are a company and you want to resell it. (Or if you import larger quantities)


It is 3 Euro for the sticker set, and + 4 Euro for shipping (to Europe)

Now I get it! This one only has 2 x's on the sides, but the Mental Block has 4!

Sorry for the late response

Epic puzzle Greg. Possibly my favourite from you (that's how I motivate myself to buy one). Great work, well done.