Ivy Cut Series
This small series is based on the “Ivy Cube” puzzle, and features curved cuts that eliminate some of the corners of the geometry that might otherwise be visible, creating a leaf pattern on each face of the puzzles.
Poison Ivy Prism
When is a puzzle not a puzzle? For twisty puzzles, that might be when it cannot be scrambled. The Poison Ivy Prism is a case of a non-scrambling twisty "sculpture. You can read more about it on the TwistyPuzzles forum.
Poison Ivy Prism is not for sale, after all, it's not a puzzle!
Poison Ivy Octahedron
Poison Ivy Octahedron is a truncated octahedron, with three "leaves" per face. Thus the "poison ivy" name. The larger "leaves" on the small square faces can never exchange places, so I've colored those faces black. The puzzle is a jumbling only geometry, with two different types of moves available at each of the twelve axes.
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Ivy Festival
Ivy Festival has 60 sides and 12 axes of rotation. The shape of the puzzle is the trapezoidal hexacontahedron. I called the puzzle Ivy Festival because one of my previous puzzles in the series was called Ivy Kites. A large gathering of kites is sometimes called a festival of kites.
Due to mechanical issues, Ivy Festival is not for sale, but you can read more about it on the TwistyPuzzles forum.
Ivy Kites
Ivy Kites extends the "ivy" theme to the trapezoidal icositetrahedron. Interestingly, Ivy Kites has octahedral symmetry, with eight axes of rotation. This means that even though the solid has 24 faces, only 12 colors are needed to fully define the puzzle, as opposite faces cannot exchange pieces.
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Ivy Crystal
Ivy Crystal applies the "ivy" theme to a rhombic triacontahedron. The slices could be shallower, but I opted to make them as deep as possible, turning an additional set of faces along with the ones adjacent to the turning vertex. This a better analogue to the original Ivy Cube, while also making Ivy Crystal a more difficult puzzle.
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Ivy Dodec
Ivy Dodec applies the "ivy" theme to the rhombic dodecahedron. There are two possible ways that the puzzle could have been sliced. One would be very shallow slices allowing the three-way corners to turn. The other makes the slices as deep as possible, allowing the puzzle to turn on the four-way corners. This makes a more difficult puzzle, and is the way the Ivy Dodec is sliced.
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