We’ve just carved a shining star for your collection!



It takes the shape of a very peculiar polyhedron technically named
dodecahedron-small triambic icosahedron compound(DSTIC). A quick search shows
that there are very few pages over the internet talking about it.



Puzzlers are advantageous in this case. Think about the Alexander's Star as the
edge only megaminx, Super Star corresponds to the edge only tuttminx(EOT).



This sample was stickered in a way similar to Alexander's Star which presents a
very different solving experience.



In order to avoid potential catches, rotational layers are slightly concaved.
Stickers are protected by sunken design of visible faces. 32 springs give it a
soft movement. As usual, 43-color sticker set allows full customization of your
very own Super Star.



Here's the data sheet: .

And sticker file: .

Video will be uploaded to youtube later.
[EDIT] Video here: http://youtu.be/XuLcn1b5E0M

Super Star will be officially available at 20th, May.

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[EDIT]We are accepting wholesale deals now. Contact us as soon as possible if you want to have it in your store before 20th, May.

[EDIT]pictures for black body








Enjoy!

Sweeeet! That's a beautiful puzzle. Will it be available in black as well as white?

That is so beautiful, I can't stop looking at it!

Congratulations on yet another incredibly huge puzzle!

Incredible ¡¡¡ A mega-alexander´s star

So beautiful! Tuti's Start!!

What a great design! Handling will be a minor problem I think

Wow! Topping your two Tuttminx would be challenging, but now you announce the Super Star based on a wonderfully complex polyhedron. Congratulations on this beautiful and interesting and BIG puzzle!

I'm prepared to wear a Kevlar "solving glove"

jaw-dropping

Wow , another... Puzzle... To buy , I need to get it , but out of money .

Cool puzzle.

Nice I like stellated polyhedra but I'm not a fan of the Alexander's Star sticker scheme. There must be some other creative ways to sticker this puzzle... Anyone have any ideas? I'd like it to be "obvious" that the puzzle is solved while still not having a huge number of duplicate edges.

Amazing!

I second this thought.

http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=2889

Is it polite to drool in public?

Amazing puzzle!

This puzzle hurts my eyes... Not easy to see colour scheme and very tedious to solve...

Alexander's Star on steroids. Awesome and scary.

Thank you guys for attention. Video has been added to the original post. You can also reach it here: http://youtu.be/XuLcn1b5E0M.

@Gus: Yes it will be available in black and white.

@otischeng, @Pete the Geek: The geometry requires that it contain sharp corner and cautions should be taken when playing. Rotation is very easy if properly aligned. Actually the reason that we break classical tuttminx as well as Super Star into much more pieces than necessary is to thoroughly address every round corner that is necessary for better movements. You may break in and check every detail of the design.

@bmenrigh: The Alexander's Star scheme adds difficulty when observing, hence solving. Anyway you can sticker it the way you like, it is a part of the puzzle. Cautions should be taken, however, that there are only 43 colors and each color contains 6 sides of hex-hex edge and 6 sides of pent-hex edges only as you can see in the sticker file.

@Burgo: this scheme is pretty focused and easy to observe.

Thank you!

Nice!!! May I ask if this is fudged? Can the points with 6 edges be turned by 60 degrees or do they need to be turned by 120 degrees? I can't pull up YouTube at work so forgive me if this question is answered in the video.

Carl

No, Super Star doesn't fudge. Actually the data sheet has explained this in the "Symmetry" section: hexagonal faces has 3 fold symmetry. Turing 60 degree of the hexagonal faces will block movements of all neighbored layers just like the classical tuttminx.

Holy smokes! Great addition to your line of puzzles! I can't to own one and sticker it in Burgo's color scheme. I also stickered my alexanders star in 20 colors.

I also stickered my alexander star with the 20 color sceme. I dont think it is possible to sticker it like burgo because that requires 60 different colors if no repeats are made.

Here all the pentagonal faces are the same colour. Each "star" face has the colour of the adjacent pentagonal face. Not satisfactory yet. Really what I would like is all the "star" arms the same colour but somehow unique. Some kind of checkering? I welcome your ideas to try out.

If you are particularly worried about duplicate colours, there is this possibility:
The only drawback is that it takes the orientation out of the orientatable edges, but I don't really think that takes too much out of the solve, it would be a compromise.

Hi Pete,
I like how your sticker pattern reveals the underlying dodecahedron, I made a few more patterns based on that idea:
(interesting how with these you are solving 2 puzzles)

@ Burgo + Pete the Geek: Very good ideas for stickering. I will buy more than one Super Star.

The solving of the Super Star is more difficult then the Tuttminx. Especially the overview of the pattern.

@ Burgo, your colouring idea makes all the edges and star points unique and it is a nice pattern.

Here is a small sample of a scheme where the stars points are all the same colour (they could also be the same colour as the pentagon face) but there is a sticker on each tip that tells us what it's neighbour should be (so each piece is unique). I only did 3 as my software makes this tedious. Clearly, they would have to be bigger. I think that triangular stickers would be easy to cut and place.

The colouring in the previous posting is very good, the stars are more clearly visible than in the other colour schemes.

Good to let you know that we have black and white body in stock.
PS: Our web store are having sever upgrade for 2-3 hours, you can get them on my ebay now store.

Your site is back up so I ordered one from there

Thanks, back to normal now.

Very Nice puzzle I bet Its Almost as hard to solve as the Tuttminx

72 $

Mine came yesterday and I put the stickers on it today.

Thanks for showing that photo of the Super Star with the two Tuttminx. I really like your colour scheme repeated for all the puzzles. Canada Post reports that mine was in Vancouver yesterday!

seeing that photo made me order mine. I couldnt resist it looking at it next to the tuttminxes
edit: is it me or are the piece not straight? it seems slightly curved to me.

There is a slight curve to the pieces.

One thing that I really appreciate about this puzzle is that the area to place the stickers is slightly recessed so that they won't catch as easily as they do on an Alexander's Star.

I LOVE the warning on the bag! What an awesome puzzle! It turns great and looks beautiful even unstickered.

My superstar came yesterday. My sticker pattern is inspired by the rainbow pattern on the tuttminx fbgrac posted here. I'm pleased with the result:



Hope you like it.

I have 6 colors on the Dodecahedron faces ( white/yellow, green, blue, red, brown, purple).
The opposite sites have little dots.

Beautiful Dreiser !
Where did you find these stickers ?

I do like it. The warm/cool colour scheme makes a lot of sense for such a large, complex puzzle. Thanks for sharing your pictures.

I cut the stickers with a vinyl-cutter.

Maybe, Oliver Nagy could design some stickers like that.

I received my Super Star and stickered like tuttstar2.jpg above as suggested by Burgo:I think that it looks great!

Hey, thanks for posting this Gus, it's nice to see what it looks like on the actual puzzle. I didn't get one in the end, but now I want one!
Speaking of this, it would be cool to have a matching Alexander's Star with the same pattern.

Gus, that looks fantastic! Now I want one!

-Doug

You have posted the picture before me Gus !!I have made the same, but your picture is better than mine !