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House Cube (Octagonal Edges Extended 294)
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A cross between an Octagonal Prism and a Cube. A 3x3x3 truncated on 2 edges. The result has a shape resembling a house.

This puzzle is part of the series "Octgonal Edges". All modifications of this series are made by truncating an 3x3x3 on its edges. These truncations are symmetric as in the mass produced octagon from which the series takes its name.
The technical signature (Octagonal Edges 294) indicates where to cut the original cube.
Without the keyword "Extended" it is a variant made only by truncating the original cube. With the word "Extended" some sides left over from the original receive additional extensions to "delete" some of these remaining faces.
This variant is a very old member of the series because it can be made just by swapping some pieces between an octagon an a cube.
The museum knows two extended version of this puzzle.

This puzzle was shown in the book "Puzzles Old and New How to Make and Solve Them" which was published in 1986. This gives an upper bound for this puzzles publication.

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Contributors

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

Collections

This puzzle can be found in collections of these members:

riddler17: My Collection
Richard: My Collection
Andreas Nortmann: Andreas' collection
PuzzleManiac: My Collection
0wlstudioz: My Collection
kastellorizo: My Collection


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