Statement: This is not my mod. It's from my friend Jerry. He is interested in collecting puzzles. Sometimes he do modification too. He asked me to post a topic in TP for him recently. And so here are the photos. This is his first mod.

Hereby I translate for him:

MOD activities is hot recently in China. Especially because Smaz held lots of mod competitions. Being affected by them, I tried to mod a puzzle. I called it "Fire Dragon ball". Because it's a sphere form puzzle with red & gold sticker which inspire me the term "Fire". I finished this mod in "dragon" year of China. That's why I called it "Fire Dragon Ball".

The puzzle was cutted from a pyraminx crystal. Using a few plastic pieces & stickers with numbers on it.

Precedure:

1-Rough mesurement on the puzzle
2-Cut the corner
3-Cut the edge
4-rip off original sticker
5-sanding
6-placing plastic sheet
7-sanding again
8-cleaning
9-sticker

It made me very tired while sanding the puzzle. But I felt good after the achivement.

With numbered stickers I place different numbers on each face, which make this puzzle a sudoku one. To solve it we got to place different numbers from 0-9 on each face. But we don't have to place them in order, just placing randomly. I think it'll be very hard. Any sudoku expert want to try it?

At last, I want to thanks Smaz for pushing up mod activities in China, Aiai for give me a Saw, Gorden for helping on the sticker, Lunny for the advice about sudoku, and "beijing noodles" for naming it.

Thank you for watching.

Very cool looking. Nice job. But what exactly is the solved state supposed to be?

Very good job! I love the pattern of colors that the stickers make. Excellent work.

He says it's a Sudoku puzzle.



Awesome job; I've always wanted to see the Truncated Icosidodecaminx!

Oh durp, guess I should read more thuroughly next time.

Very pretty, way to go Jerry!

Dave

Puzzles in shape of a truncated icosidodecahedron are rare!