20-Part Puzzle

George W. Hart


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This puzzle is composed of twenty identical components that interlock. It is much harder than it looks. As far as I know, besides me only George Miller has solved it. Below is a view of a stack of its components, right out of an FDM mahine, before assembly.



If you have access to an FDM machine, you can make your own parts from the file available here. There is an article about this puzzle in issue 74 of Cubism For Fun, which gives the secret of how I assembled it.



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