Pseudo Rediminx
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After designing the Lilac Octahedron, the inventor was thinking about applying the same idea to trapezohedrons, and the result is the Pseudo Rediminx. This puzzle is a corner turning truncated hexagonal trapezohedron, with 14 faces, 24 axes and 36 equivalent edge pieces of three different appearances. If you apply the same construction to a pentagonal trapezohedron, you will re-discover the Rediminx designed by Justin Costa. Among those edge pieces, only one type out of the three has rotational symmetry, which means that it can be flipped without changing the shape of the puzzle. The biggest edges (those ones on hexagonal faces) are very close to be rotational symmetric (offset by ~0.8 degrees when flipped), so the inventor didn’t notice it until presenting the puzzle. Technically on the puzzle there are many pieces assembled in their wrong directions, but these flaws are barely noticeable. The shape of the puzzle coincides with the shape of the fullerene molecule with the smallest number of carbon atoms (C24) except the dodecahedron. The geometry of this puzzle could be seen as a face-turning bi-augmented hexagonal antiprism at a certain height. This description is not accurate since the real geometry has some pentagonal faces in place of triangular ones. The puzzle is SLS-printed. Height: 72 mm Links
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