Message #2125

From: Eduard Baumann <baumann@mcnet.ch>
Subject: Re: Simulator of "Twisty Star" (the Compound of Five Tetrahedra)
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 10:56:52 +0200

Congratulations: Very interesting and absolutely original!

I have also made a model of the compound of 5 tetrahedras with cardboard. It’s a "hollow" version with small pentagonal windows. I have the other handedness than your puzzle.

Dkwan wrote (2009):

"With regards to solving this puzzle, I find it visually very confusing, but I have worked out the following solve order with commutators that may not be optimal:
Corners (20 3-sticker pieces): [1,1]
Centers (60 pieces): [5,1] (I feel like this is pretty bad, but I didn’t find a shorter one)
Corner-Edges (60 pieces): [3,1]"

I also have detected the three pieces: corners (3 stickers), centres and corner-edges (both 2 stickers).

And the three commutators with three different distances.

2009, hence three years ago.

Kind regards
Ed