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• Inventor: Mark Lodge
• Mechanism: 2x2x2
• Patents: Unknown
• Producer: Custom
• Year: 2021
• Original Price: $0.00 USD
• Current Price: No Data

Just another shape variant of the 2x2x2 pocket-cube, attractive but a little disorienting at first.
The inventor adapted a QiYi 2x2x2 ball core to fit within the pieces of an old folding fidget toy similar to the 'Rubik's Magic Star'. The shape is a stellation of a rhombic dodecahedron, sometimes known as Escher's Solid.
Created as an exploration of simple homomorphic puzzles. The cuts through the long axis of the stellations keep this puzzle shape-preserving whereas cuts through the short axis would shape-shift, and unfortunately Dino cuts wouldn't rotate.
Edge length (other): 56 mm
Edge length (at the cuts): 28 mm
Weight: 75 grams

The Corner Pocket Star applies the same shape to a Corner Pocket puzzle.

In 2022 a stickerless version of this puzzle was mass produced as "ZY Prismatic Pocket 2x2 Magic Cube", with curved centre cuts and rounded edges. It was produced with three different colour schemes. See images 5-9.

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Thank you to the following people for their assistance in helping collect the information on this page: Mark Lodge, Mark Lodge.

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