Check out http://www.puzzle-shop.de/brand.html for his latest creations. There's 4 new puzzles there. It should be pretty obvious what (s?)he used as a model this time. L8r.

Its really hard to believe you could make such an amazing looking puzzle!! all of them, but particularly top right and bottiom left...

Kind of like all the skewb shapes, it makes different pieces have different meaning. eg on a normal megaminx centres dont have a visible rotation (not counting mefferts grained stickers / tiles). but some of these do. however, this seems to be at the expense of losing the orientation of the corners. id like to see an "ultimate megaminx" which (like the untimate skewb) gives a rotation to every piece. the possible positions would be astounding! unlike some puzzles, any twist of a single centre is possible.

Wow,

That looks like a lot of work to get a megaminx to look like that. Looks like a lot of sticker work also.

Or am I going mad! I know there is a Megaminx Ball on Sandy's site, but I am sure I have seen the others. Maybe I saw them at the Puzzle Museum and am getting confused.

I am sure Jürgen Brandt is a he, would be an unusual name for a woman! Hendrik?

Max

I think the reason you can rotate a single centre on a Megaminx is due to the fact that you can swap two edges. So this only happens on the 6 coloured jobs.

I might be wrong though, started having doubts as I type this ?!?

Max

a single turn of a face induces a 5-cycle of corners and edges which are even permutations. so a face may be twisted so that the centre is in the desired orientation, and then the corners and edges put into place 'the long way'.

true, you can only 'swap' two edges if the thing is 6 coloured (10 coloured?).