The Making of The Petaminx - Rubik's Cube Cubed and Made by Insane People

[mouser]

Dear lord.. this is real.  Personally i think this planet is not good enough to deserve the people who have what it takes to create stuff like this.

Just to *assemble* it before you can play with it:

The puzzle has 975 individual parts.
Each face has 101 stickers, making a total of 1212 stickers.
20 hours on masters and molds.
12 hours casting parts.
30 hours cleaning up parts and sanding (!!)
7 hours assembling all 975 parts
6 hours stickering.

tutorial and videos on puzzleforge

Creator of the puzzle originally posted the designs and discussion here: http://twistypuzzles...0&hilit=petaminx
WARNING: please do not view this if you have a weak heart or are easily confused.


from http://www.ohgizmo.com/

[Mizraim]

I want one of those!!!

[Edvard]

We are doomed. 

[housetier]

Well, at least I don't have to feel bad anymore when I can't solve one of those.

[40hz]

We should be grateful Andrew Cormier confines such genius to the creation of puzzles.

Imagine what else a mind like that would be capable of building if it ever got pissed off about something.

[nite_monkey]

holy crap! I can't even solve the regular 3x3x3 cube. I would hate to try solving that one

[app103]

holy crap! I can't even solve the regular 3x3x3 cube. I would hate to try solving that one

-nite_monkey (March 03, 2009, 06:44 PM)

I can handle 3x3x3, except for the final 2-3 blocks sometimes, same with 4x4x4 or theoretically 20x20x20 or 100x100x100 (I still would only have troubles with those last 2-3 blocks)...

But when you get into a shape like this puzzle is, I completely lose my abilities for 3 dimensional thought. 

[f0dder]

Oh... my... god.

Has the universe imploded yet?

[nosh]

youtube attempt#1
pentamix
 - no results found -
youtube attempt #2
pentaminx
 - no results found -

I'm thinking my chances of solving this are not exceptionally good.

[Deozaan]

We should be grateful Andrew Cormier confines such genius to the creation of puzzles.

Imagine what else a mind like that would be capable of building if it ever got pissed off about something.

-40hz (March 03, 2009, 06:33 PM)

Ever see the movie Cube? Imagine if it was one of these. 

[Edvard]

Oh... my... god.

Has the universe imploded yet?

-f0dder (March 04, 2009, 11:08 AM)

The Making of The Petaminx - Rubik's Cube Cubed and Made by Insane People

 

[f0dder]

Haha, great one

[siouxdax]

My God. What hath Man wrought?

[mouser]

Edvard, lol, nice one