From: "The Official Thermo-Fluids Fan Club of the UK. (Andy Southern)" <a.southern@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Identify this puzzle please!

At 17:59 05/12/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I recently acquired a puzzle through the mail and am not sure what it is
>called.  I'll give a shot at describing it:  It has 14 sides - 8
>triangles, and 6 squares.  The squares are rotated 45 degrees and each
>touch 4 other squares at the corners, while their sides match up with 4
>triangles each.  You could achieve the shape of this puzzle by taking a
>cube and shaving off the corners to create an equilateral triangle. 
>There are no markings or words on it.  If anybody knows, please let me
>know, as I am curious if this is the Magic Dodecahedron I've been
>reading about.
>
>Thanks,
>Scottie
>
>
>

No, the magic Dodecahedron has 12 regular pentagon faces.

I think you might be talking about Meffret's Creative Challenge, but that is
the Geodesic versions of those shapes on a sphere.

Andy.

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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 10:02:09 -0600