Fracture Series
These jumbling puzzles are rarities in that they do not shape shift (well, most of them don’t). The same principle can be applied to an infinite number of geometries.
Spiral Fracture-12
Spiral Fracture-12 is based on my Fracture-12 puzzle, but with an additional twist. With Spiral Fracture-12, 45 degree turns can be used, allowing face and edge pieces to exchange places. This is achieved through the use of curved slices. The curved cuts create the unique pattern of gaps between the stickers.
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Spiral Fracture
Spiral Fracture is based on my Fracture-10 puzzle, but with an additional twist. With Spiral Fracture, 45 degree turns can be used, allowing face and edge pieces to exchange places. This is achieved through the use of curved slices. The curved cuts also make the internal parts visible, which is why there are gaps between the stickers.
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Fractured Tetrahedron
Fractured Tetrahedron is a triakis tetrahedron. The four six-sided vertices are the rotational axes of the puzzle. Fractured Tetrahedron is a jumbling, but non-shape-shifting puzzle. Each axis can turn in increments of 60 degrees, but axes become blocked if edge pieces are flipped in the wrong direction.
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Fractured Cube
Fractured Cube is a tetrakis hexahedron. The eight six-sided vertices of the shape are the rotational axes. Fractured Cube is a jumbling, but non-shape-shifting puzzle. Each axis can turn in increments of 60 degrees, but axes become blocked if edge pieces are flipped in the wrong direction.
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QuadStar
QuadStar is based on the geometry of the snub disphenoid. The four five-sided vertices of the snub dishenoid have been elongated to produce true five-way symmetry. These four vertices have are rotational axes. Each axis can turn in increments of 72 degrees, but axes become blocked if edge pieces are flipped in the wrong direction.
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Fracture-12
Fracture-12 is a truncated hexagonal dipyramid. It is a jumbling, but not shape-shifting puzzle. The puzzle has six axes of rotation, each capable of 90 degree turns, but only when the edges around that vertex are pointing in the same direction. Otherwise 180 degree turns must be used.
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Fracture-10 Master Edition
Fracture-10 Master Edition is a ten sided solid with five axes of rotation and two layers on each axis. Each vertex around the equator can be turned in 90 degree increments, although due to bandaging, rotations are often limited to 180 degrees. The smaller outer layers can only be accessed when 90 degree turns are available.
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Fracture-10
Fracture-10 puzzle is a ten sided solid with five axes of rotation. Each vertex at the equator can be turned in 90 degree increments, but due to blocking that frequently occurs, rotations are often limited to 180 degrees. Don't be fooled by the simple design of this puzzle, it is fiendishly difficult.
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Fracture-6
Fracture-6 is a jumbling triangular bipyramid with three axes of rotation. The axes are at each four-sided vertex. Every axis is can turn in 90 degree increments, but only when all four edges around that axis are pointing in the same direction. If the edges are not properly aligned the axis will be limited to 180 degree turns. This bandaging makes Fracture-6 very difficult to solve.
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Fracture-10 Unbandaged
Fracture-10 Unbandaged is a variant of my previous Fracture-10 puzzle. With this new version, all axes can turn at 90 degrees at any time, so the puzzle has been turned into a non-jumbling, doctrinaire puzzle. Unfortunately so much material had to be removed from the puzzle that it no longer turns easily at all.
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Compound Fracture
Compound Fracture is based on my Fracture-10 puzzle, but with an additional "twist". With Compound Fracture, 45 degree turns can be used, allowing face and edge pieces to exchange places. This is done by using an irregular bipyramid shape, which eliminates on axis of rotation, so there are only four instead of five.
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Curvy-10 Master Edition
Curvy-10 Master Edition is a combination of my previous Curvy-10 puzzle, and my Fracture-10 Master Edition puzzle. Each vertex at the equator can be turned in 90 degree increments, although due to bandaging, rotations are often limited to 180 degrees. The smaller outer layers can only be accessed when 90 degree turns are available.
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Diamond Delight
Diamond Delight uses the same pentagonal dipyramid geometry as my Fracture-10. It also turns on five axes at the vertices around the equator. However, Diamond Delight uses deeply curved cuts, resulting in a non-bandaged geometry. This makes Diamond Delight much easier to solve than Fracture-10, and creates the beautiful curved patterns on each face.
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Curvy-10
Curvy-10 is based on my Fracture-10 puzzle, but with additional parts visible due to the use of curved cuts. These curves allow the axles of the puzzle to show, and requires them to be oriented correctly in order to solve the puzzle. Curvy-10 is for those who thought Fracture-10 was too easy!
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