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Loads a bits! |
Sorry there's been no updates for a while - I've actually been on leave and managed to catch man flu - not much puzzling has been done for a week!
At the last MPP I received a delivery from Shapeways - A friend of mine and myself secretly took the Ternary burr design by Goh pit Khiam and sort of "extended it". We ended up with a rather attractive collection of plastic pieces and I had to take my copy of Ternary burr and put it together - I ended up quite quickly with this:
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Eric's version |
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Shapeways creation |
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Spot the difference? |
Yep - it seems to have some extra bits!!! Instead of 83 moves to put the keys back in place it requires nearly 1500 moves - it took me an hour!
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How awesome is that? |