Talk:Magic polyhedron

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[edit] Octagonal Prism

I see no mention on this page of a Rubik(oid) shape that was the form of the toy my family first obtained. (May not have been an actual Rubik product, but a clone's implementation.)

It was an octagonal prism. Essentially a cube in construction, except with four parallel edges (say, the 'vertical' ones) shaved to be diagonal, giving white/orange opposite sides octagonal form (centre square, four edge squares, four 45-45-90 'corner' triangles) and eight different colours down each of the four 'centre line' positions and the four slightly wider (i.e. roughly width to unit height) 'corner' lines. 42 'squares' in all, across 10 faces.

With the shaved vertical strips not necessarily (especially after being solved by dismantling a couple of times) being relatable to two of the 'centre line' strips and the mid corner having no obvious orientation (unlike an edge piece upon a cube, which is clearly different in its two different orientations) the puzzle was simultaneously 'easier' to solve (many relative positions existed for the shaved verticals, relative to the fixed classical centre verticals) and yet allowed you to fall into a trap (a single hexagon-end classically-positioned edge piece could be wrongly rotated, because one or three of the 'sliced edges' were effectively wrongly rotated, or some similar issues) that meant further, unanticipated, 'solving' to correct.

I've looked for references to this implementation, but no luck so far. I reckon it should at least have a home on this page, however, if anyone has a clue what I'm talking about and can add suitable information. --62.49.25.104 20:26, 5 July 2007 (UTC)