Update 12-Mar-2009: The Petaminx is now on sale over at eBay. One of a kind, impossible to solve (not really, but hey, damn tedious), and yours for just a small outlay!

Update 22-Mar-2009: And sold for the bargin price of US $3,550.00 :)


Common household, hard-assed puzzles are dull. Even Will Smith can solve one in under a minute. Not interesting. Way too few moving pieces. What you really need is one of these.

This is a dodecahedral petaminx – a 12-sided version of the Rubiks cube. The original design was created by Andrew Cormier, and release for free onto the world. The first build was by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge.com

You know you want to make one. So head on over here for the plans, and here to see it being put together (warning: nasty audio alert). And where would we be without the entire build process being documented.