Curvy-10 Master Edition

 

 

 David Pitcher; Curvy-10 Master Edition, FDM printed with ABS by Chewie's Custom Stickers

The shape of this puzzle is pentagonal dipyrmaid. It has five axes of rotation on the corners along the equator. The top and the bottom corners don't turn. There are two cuts around each of the equatorial corners. However only one of the shallow cuts make full circles that leads to bandaging. You can always perform a twist along the deeper cuts in 90 degree increments. The shallow cuts often limit twists to 180 degree increments, unless careful alignment unbandages an outer layer's shallow cut and also allows 90 degree moves. Only one of the outer layers is fully unbandaged.

The concept of the puzzle looks simple, but solving it is hard. I suspect that a specific order of solving is required taking advantage of the single fully unbandaged side.

The puzzle turns great (for an FDM printed one) despite being a little stiff. It has one big solid core that provides stability, and there's no catching due to loose pieces. Its size also feels nice in hands.