The Tuttminx

Hey, everyone. It's me, back at it again with another blog post about puzzles. Recently, I made a very large order- I purchased close to 200$ worth of puzzles. I got some pretty cool ones, but none of them were cooler than this one, the Tuttminx: The Tuttminx is a truncated icosahedral (32-sided or 32-faced) puzzle that functions similar to what you'd expect from a Rubik's cube. Each side is a unique color, just like the Rubik's cube- meaning it was a huge pain to sticker. It actually arrives in the mail with no stickers applied, and the user is expected to do this themselves. Now, I'm fine with this, but when you're working with 32 different colors, it can be very difficult to decide where you want them to go- if you're not careful, you can wind up with too many similar colors too close to each other (for example, I was given eight different shades of blue, and the task of keeping them as far apart as I could!). The Tuttminx took me about two hours...