'Minx family reunion

DLitwin · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:46 pm

Jason will be selling his Petaminx soon (just a few more days on the auction) so we figured this was our chance to get a family photo of all the 'Minxes.

Jason, Aleh, Bram and I met near my work and brought our puzzles.

I brought the my Kilominx and a CubeSmith stickered Tomy megaminx (a tiled Meffert's didn't fit well given all the others were stickered) and a Teraminx (Drewseph's design, V2 smaller). The Teraminx was loaned to Jason scambled, who loaned it to me to solve for the picture.

Aleh brought his amazing Gigaminx (PuzzleMaster42's design) as well as his Teraminx (Dreseph's design, V1 larger). I just cut the stickers for him last night and delivered them after midnight, so the fact that it has even five sides stickers says he put some time to get ready for the meeting

Jason of course brought his astounding Petaminx. Wow.

Enjoy,

Dave

Aleh · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:59 pm

Sven · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:10 pm

wow great to see the famili:D

Now a scrambled picture XD

DragonCuber · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:37 pm **Location:** UK

WOW, that's what we've all been waiting for in a long time

Very nice, I wish I owned them all :cry:

Shua · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:23 pm

Total photoshop...
The shadows are ALL wrong.
:mrgreen:

Thanks for the new background!

Bigandrewgold · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:31 pm

Amazing

olz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:42 pm

you should do tihs again if the examinx is gonna get built

PotatoSpades22095 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:56 pm

That looks awesome! Too bad noone ever made any other even number minxes. We need a 4x4, 6x6, and 8x8 minx to make it a full set 2-9

Disjunto · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:21 pm

I reckon my camera is better.... should send them over to me

flambore · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:40 pm

Wow. That is one freakin' amazing picture.

DLitwin · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:47 pm

Disjunto wrote:

I reckon my camera is better.... should send them over to me

How about you send us your camera!

But on topic:
The light inside the restaurant was pretty poor, and with my dark shirt as a background the pictures could have been better. I should have put them on my napkin at the very least. Oh well, we'll just have to wait for an East Coast reunion for a better picture I suppose.

Dave

TheCube · **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:54 pm

this picture makes the gigaminx look like childs play and the kilominx look trivial!

Drewseph · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:57 pm

I'll be sure to get a better picture.

ndgamer4life · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:23 pm

Thats the most amazing thing i have ever seen. *cries

anyone make a video?

DLitwin · **Posted:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:42 pm

Sorry, no video. But a few more pictures:

A friend at work likes photography and took a few pictures before I left for lunch. He posted them on his livejournal site:

For those who speak Russian, here is the link to his post.

Dave

Steveo · **Joined:** Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:37 pm **Location:** Canada

*drooling*
Wow...
I wish I could just touch the petaminx!

Aleksey · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:24 pm

Yeah, I've read about it in Russian too. 8-)

Very nice pictures of the Teraminx, Dave!

Caphits · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:12 pm

The petaminx was WAY too close to the edge of the table in the last picture. :shock:

SaiyanKirby · **Joined:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:18 pm **Location:** MA, USA

Steveo wrote:

I wish I could just touch the petaminx!

I have.

It's really awesome to see pictures like these, with the progression of puzzles. At the Boston meet-up today, we took some pictures of Drew's skewb family (with a guest appearance of my skewb).

Drewseph · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:57 pm

Some pictures I took while analyzing the Petaminx design.

TheCube · **Posted:** Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:56 am

As Borat would say: Very Nice

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

My apologies - I can't find the wire for my camera, so my Blackberry will have to do once again.

Here's my minx family.

For those who want to see the mixed version, bare with me. They will come.

Muffet · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:52 pm

It seems as all you are missing is a kilominx! :shock:

ejisfun · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:16 pm

Eek! I'd be scared balancing two pillowed puzzles on top of each other, along with several other puzzles on top! (I'd be even more scared knowing that that stack is worth well over $6,000!) :shock:

Fractangle · **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:41 am **Location:** Earth

That first picture is scary! :shock:

Don't give people heart attacks like that!! :shock:

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

Actually, the puzzles were very stable! It didn't even wobble. I'm guessing the weight balanced it out well. Although the puzzles themselves aren't heavy at all.

Btw - Aligning is a bitch, but once it is it turns very smooth! <--- Yes that means I'm in the midst of mixing it. I'll post pics tomorrow. Tonight will just be mixing and mixing.

Aurum · **Joined:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:54 am **Location:** Thailand

Cool!!!
I love to see 'minx family.

์Now, make a megaminx in 1x1x1 pattern : Monominx lol

Steveo · **Joined:** Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:37 pm **Location:** Canada

SaiyanKirby wrote:

Steveo wrote:

I wish I could just touch the petaminx!

I have.

Awww... you're mean.

Aurum wrote:

์Now, make a megaminx in 1x1x1 pattern : Monominx lol

You know... we've seen plenty of cubic 1x1x1's...
why not a 'monominx' ( :roll:

) or something like that in pyramid form?
Hmm...
I think this is worth working on :wink:

Jared · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:25 pm

I was thinking about doing it and calling it a "Microminx". :lol:

But the only dodecahedral thing I could find was a d12 - way too small. (Unless you call it a "Micro-microminx"!)

Steveo · **Joined:** Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:37 pm **Location:** Canada

I'm beginning to work on a pyramid with just the tips with random pieces I have...
we'll see if this works!

PotatoSpades22095 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:56 pm

That did look a little dangerous with all the minxes stacled on top of eachother (especially since the 2 on the bottom were pillowed) BTW nice new avatar reeech.

Cubicle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:09 pm

If you go by the same name scheme every other Minx, then the 1x1x1 Minx would just simply be "Minx."

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:11 pm

I think it's very fitting for the 1x1x1 to simply be "minx." However, it's bad for easily referencing the minx family so I would suggest some other name.

Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

PotatoSpades22095 wrote:

That looks awesome! Too bad noone ever made any other even number minxes. We need a 4x4, 6x6, and 8x8 minx to make it a full set 2-9

Those minxes would be pretty easy to design internally, but externally the turning would be impossible without the alteration of the kilominx, which would cause an internal problem. Sort of like a catch-22.

I love looking at these pictures. They're all so perfect! I want a set so badly!

Cubicle wrote:

If you go by the same name scheme every other Minx, then the 1x1x1 Minx would just simply be "Minx."

I do agree the name would be fitting, but doesn't the word "Minx" refer to the ability to twist?

InfernoTowel · **Joined:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:52 pm

Whoa :O
Does anyone even know how to solve the Petaminx yet?
Also, is anyone so daring as to design an Examinx (Or even Zettaminx)?

Bigandrewgold · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:11 pm

InfernoTowel wrote:

Whoa :O
Does anyone even know how to solve the Petaminx yet?

the owner is in the process of solving it

InfernoTowel wrote:

Also, is anyone so daring as to design an Examinx (Or even Zettaminx)?

I think that drew has files for the examinx

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