Skewb des Soleils by Timur

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Some time ago, Oskar presented a puzzle named Gear Skewb (http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=2504) that should actually be called Gear Master Skewb because it had 3 layers.

The puzzle I'm showing today is a "real" Gear Skewb with 14 (8 corners and 6 face centers) pieces that appear after dissecting a solid with 4 corresponding layers. The Gear Skewb name was already occupied, so I called it Skewb des Soleils - because face gears look like an image of the sun. Orientation of the suns is not visible (unless we make a "super" version), so this puzzle is not very difficult to solve.

Having already designed a Gear Halpern-Meier Tetrahedron (http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=3466), I didn't have to spend much time designing this one, because I only had to extend the outer faces and cut them in a different way. By the way, it was Doug Roth from this forum, who proposed to make a cubic version of the Gear HMT, which he bought from me and had a chance to play with.

Skewb des Soleils is available in my Shapeways Shop: http://www.shapeways.com/model/897145/skewb-des-soleils.html

Timur

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