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An unbandaged variant of Mystic Charm which has to turned many times until it behaves like the jumbling puzzle that it is.
The original Mystic Charm was designed by Matt Galla but since he was busy he asked Evgeniy Grigoriev to prototype this successor for him.
The Mystic Charm Plus is, as its name implies, an unbandaging of the Mystic Charm, which is the second puzzle in the Mystic Series. Matt Galla supposes to call it the Mystic Puzzle #2b. It was designed to demonstrate the concept of natural unbandaging. This unbandaging was immediately clear to Matt Galla when he first designed the original Mystic Charm. Fang-10 by Eitan Cher utilizes a very similar unbandaging pattern.
What used to be the C pieces of the Mystic Charm have now been split into 4 pieces on the Mystic Charm Plus. Mechanically, these 4 new pieces are equivalent to a B piece, 2 D pieces, and an E piece. That means even though these pieces have different external shapes, they are fully interchangeable (respecting orbits).
It only takes a few moves to free up the new cuts. Images 5 and 6 show these new possible turns.
With so many cuts available, the Mystic Charm Plus begins to behave at least locally like a doctrinaire puzzle. There is a commutator of two adjacent faces that can be repeated 60 times to cycle all the way back to solved.
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Mystic Charm Plus
