Ive heard that you have to half truncate the cube then extend the non truncated pieces, can someone explain indepth what i have to do please?

This is quite an easy puzzle really once you have gotten your head around it!
It is JUST a 3x3 cube which has been morphed into a pyramid. The dual colour triangular areas are the centres (being dual colour they have an orientation so are effectively a supercube). The parallelograms are the edge pieces and the triangles (single or triples) are the corners. It is possible to have a single corner orientated wrong unlike a normal cube because the single colour triangle corners can be rotated without changing anything.

Once you have your head around this it is pretty easy. I can do mine in about 3-4 minutes now.

Hope this helps!

I think he was talking about building it as opposed to solving it.

KozehCubes, as I don't hand build puzzles, I can't help you much. But both the pillowed and the flat sided version have been mass produced.

I can solve it I wanna build it

I know luke but I really want to get into puzzle modding and this is supposedly easy, any tips you know you can give me though please?

Doh!
Didn't read the name of the forum! I use the view active topics all the time and just saw the title! Sorry!

While I have never modded a cube either, at least I can provide this picture... your instructions seem valid

somehow that picture still confuses me....

How exactly? It has the cube and the tetrahedron overlapped to show what to truncate and what to extend. Maybe I'll leave this to those who have actually done it...

Actually yeah i understand now thanks so much, how do you recomend extending the pieces?

This website (registration required to view content) has an extremely good tutorial on how to build the Mastermorphix. The website itself is in Korean, but the guide has a lot of pictures, showing you exactly the most efficient way to build this puzzle. Coaster's picture shows how the cube sits inside the tetrahedron but it does not show the most efficient relative scale - the guide I linked to show exactly how you can "easily" use existing pieces to build up the others.

When I tried to view the page Tom linked, Chrome warned me of possible malware threat in that page. Anyone else have the same?

I get it too, but that message can appear for a variety of reasons. Even just linking to an image hosted on a suspicious site will trigger it.
I'm not sure, but the site I've linked to has been around for a long time and no virus scanner alarm bells went ringing when I clicked "proceed anyway".

This looks good but also fairly hard to follow becuase the grammar is jumbled when chrome translates it but thank you tomz i will give this a try

Here's a gif I made a long time ago of the 2x2 equivalent (well not exactly equivalent I guess...) ... Don't know if this helps or not...

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/6025 ... 2x2wv4.gif

what i need is a video of extending the other pieces, im sorry but I mostly learn visually its hard for me to follow text...

You will have to go through a learning curve like everyone else. Although there are some variants for which tutorial videos exists in most cases you will have to use images, text, or nothing (when you want to create something new) as guide.

Here comes the more productive comment:
You already learned that you have to start with a Half-Truncated Cube:
http://www.twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/pu ... i?pkey=862
Therefore I advise you to build exactly that. Compare it with the image Coaster1235 posted and (hopefully) you will see what pieces you have to extend.

Andreas

Maybe you see something here:

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11143

In the messages below have more images

Hi KozehCubes,

I have a few construction pictures too that might help you.

1. Marking out a half truncated cube.
2. Half truncated, sitting on a cut face.
3. The extensions needed, for all 6 of the uncut faces.
4. The skeletal frame, before the outer plastic sheet is added.

OMG thank you for the clear diagrams, i can set to work on this now thank you