A face turning triakis tetrahedron with truncated shape. A jumbling-only puzzle.

• Inventor: David Pitcher
• Mechanism: Jumbling only axis system (based on catalan solid)
• Patents: Unknown
• Producer: 3D printing service
• Year: 2012
• Original Price: $0.00 USD
• Current Price: No Data

This is the fourth known puzzle with this shape. It is no shape transformation but was designed from scratch.
Like the skyglobe (the first puzzle with this shape) this puzzle is face turning but unlike its predecessor there are twelve possible rotations because this puzzle rotates around the quasi-pentagonal faces. There are no turns around the hexagons and these faces are all coloured black. The pentagons are not really regular and that is one reason why the puzzle is not doctrinaire but allows only jumbling turns.
If the puzzle had had the shape of a (non-truncated) triakis tetrahedron then the puzzle would have been face turning around all twelve faces. The creator considered to implement this puzzle with the non-truncated triakis tetrahedron as shape but decided against it to get a more stable design.
There are five piece types visible the puzzle, three unique and a pair of chiral parts. Not visible are another three types of pieces (including the core), for a total of eight different part types.
Size: 71.3 mm (distance between hexagon and opposite corner)

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

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