Thanks! Yah, I love trying new axis systems! If you haven't tried it already, the curvy copter is a good intro to jumbling puzzles.

​@@jabberwocktechnologies I've tried curvy copter, but that wasn't so bad since it can somewhat easily be reverted to its cubic state and then be solved without jumbling, save for a few algorithms. What scares me is solving jumbling-only axis systems like this one. They're super cool nevertheless, and it's nice to see another awesome puzzle from a great designer

@@lord0fthecubes Thanks! Yah that makes sense, pure jumbling is another layer of difficulty.

The power supply burned out right after I'd been dealing with the print bed randomly becoming unresponsive some of the time. It seemed like some kind of wiring issue, but it probably didn't help that I'd been printing some CPE with the heated bed at 110 and hotend at 260. The Kobra Neo was great for me, but only after some critical modifications. I had to replace the bed standoffs with springs, and upgrade the part cooling fan and duct (among other things). The original bed standoffs in particular are a terrible design that prevents using the whole print area, but replacing them with springs and bolts only costs a couple dollars. With the upgrades I had it running nearly nonstop for nearly two years with great results. Aside from the critical design flaw it was a terrific printer.

Me too, TBH. Seeing the size in CAD vs seeing it in real life feels totally different.

Thank you!

Yes, exactly.

@@m_affiliates excellent! It's a great puzzle.

@@QuirkyCubes Thank you!

@@nolantoney4577 yah, I'm currently using low weight silicone lubricant because it works particularly well with plastics. I haven't tried other stuff yet.

I believe so. I've been working on a tutorial for the faceted twist (shapemod of Krystian's twist) and the pentagons there can be oriented different ways. It doesn't dramatically change the solution process though, it just adds an extra step at the beginning.

Oh yah, it's totally a similar vibe when jumbling. In this case it's a bit of an illusion caused by the stickering/mechanism. The purple/orange/green big triangle is internally the base piece and its orientation does not change relative to the core. That's not always obvious when turning it though.

Hahahaha, joking aside, that may actually be more practical than a lot of my designs. If I remember right, the assembly process on this one was not bad, the turning quality is only okay though. In order to get it working right it had to sit on the shelf for a few weeks to settle and also it had to be lubricated using a lower-weight lubricant than I usually use.

@@salvadorgonzales1 yah, pretty much. Another way to look at it is that the hidden color of each side needs to not match for opposite squares and the tiles pop up if that's not the case.

Yah, different dodecahedron shapemod, but the solution process is functionally the same.

@@JasonSmith3 Thanks! Seeing some of your work on the original radiolarians is part of what got me into puzzle design to begin with!

@@jabberwocktechnologies Thanks for saying! And I.... apologize? :) Nah it's the good healthy kind of frustration. My kids used to hang in the garage with me casting resin etc etc.. Great to see you get #10 turning. I hated that one if I remember right.

@UpsideSoundCake hahahaha, yah the perplexing side projects are a good thing. They help me stay sane and my kid loves to participate in assembling them.

They're (at least currently) hard to get. I got mine via the grigorusha puzzle store a long while ago. The designer also has a kit listed in his i.materialise shop, but you'll need to get the stickers, screws, and spring separately. The stickers can be bought from chewie's custom puzzles separately and the screws are m3x16 if I remember right.

Working on it. The regular release schedule just got disrupted for a while there.

@@jabberwocktechnologies well damn you had time to respond fairly quick.. what’s been in the way? this stuff blows my mind how you can even get these puzzle much less solve them do people send you puzzles tbey make? because nobody else would be able to figure them out and where on earth are the millions of subscribers you should have??? EDIT: you do mention where you get the puzzles a lot actually my bad man

That's great!

@@thenamestripp In most cases, commutators. There's another new trick for this one and some others that I still need to do a write-up/video about though.

@@jabberwocktechnologies i understand commutators on (idk the symmetry or whatever) n x n cubes like how to do them with restrictive turns like one that only goes 180° even… i would love some BYOAlgs tutorials in the future! 👌🏼💯

Thanks! Yah, mine is a special edition with transparent blue instead of black as the base plastic the tiles are inserted into.

Thanks! The only one I'm currently aware of is cubing/twsearch on github. The simulations I've done have all been hand-written thus far so I can't comment on it personally, but it looks decent.

I want to do more tutorials about difficult puzzles like this at some point, but I'm woefully backlogged on tutorials at the moment so that'll be a while.

I don't actually have one yet. I was looking at the 3-layer one but didn't order yet. If you want one it looks like the cubein store still has them.

@@jabberwocktechnologies okie

That's unfortunate. Maybe try lubricating it? The purple/blue thing is just an issue with my camera. It captures most colors well, but not purple for some reason. I haven't figured out a fix for that yet.

Probably. It depends on exactly how what you want. The tiles pop in and out and are a little noisy as it turns. The magnets won't let it spin freely, but the snapping of the tiles can be super satisfying.

Chewie actually has custom alternate stickers available for some of the gem series puzzles. I've glued down some of the original stickers on mine though so I haven't swapped them yet.

Yah, not sure why they do that. It's bothersome. I'm a little less bothered if they're at least on different face types though.

Sure. That takes a while, but I'll see what I can do.

Yah, it's a beautiful puzzle for sure!

Not quite, but it does look similar. You're probably thinking of a hexaminx which is a cube-shaped megaminx. The actual axis system for this one is a face turning tetrakis tetrahedron with added 60 degree turns for the outer corners.

@@jabberwocktechnologies ah ok thanks for the explanation!

Yep! Great comparison!

Good comparison! That's true for everything except the petal pieces on the big faces that are nearest to the small faces.

Just watch Superantoniovivaldis video again after seeing the Hanoiminx and wanted to comment the same. I was wrong, sorry.

@@Bomberbrownie No worries. They are remarkably similar. It's a reasonable comparison to make!

If I remember right, there are screws you can try to tighten deeper inside the puzzle, but I actually recommend just lubricating this one and not disassembling it if possible. Reassembly is a huge pain.

Yah, it's a long solve. No single stage is too horrible, but there are many steps.

Yep.