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Windmill
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A token-dropping puzzle with three arms and five pieces that are moved by gravity when the whole puzzle is turned.

This puzzle consists of five colourful tokens slide through the three arms of the windmill shape. In the middle, there is a switch that routes the tokens left-right-left-right. The object of the puzzle is to scramble the tokens and then solve the puzzle. Whereas most people tends to approach the puzzle as a dexterity puzzle, sometimes even manually adjusting the switch in the process, the puzzle is actually a twisty puzzle. One should route an arm of token through the switch in one continuous swoop.
From a solving perspective the puzzle is a failure with just four permutations.
The tokens were made by 3D printing a heavy copper-filled-PLA-filament cylinder, which was embedded in the colourful outer token shape.

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