Solving in HD Quality Part 1: 3x3x3 Hexagonal Dipyramid Tutorial

Another mod squad video, and continuing with my vacation tutorials, here's a quicky for your consideration, a 3x3x3 hexagonal dipyramid puzzle tutorial. This will be an introduction to this particular shaped mod. Again solved like a 3x3 supercube, but unlike the axis cubes, the centers don't have a specific orientation. In the scrambled form it looks like a cube, so the challenge is to carve out the dipyramidal form on the surface as we solve it!
Can you guess the identity of the puzzle at the end?

Up next: The answer to the challenge and some higher order HD puzzles.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• 3x3x3
• hexagonal
• dipyramid
• tutorial
• solve
• rubik's
• cube
• mod
• modification

[bsteven93]

the second puzzle is a corner-edge turn hexagonal dipyriamid and that model should be the equivalent to the 3x3 if im not mistaken also is a mod from the skewb cube if the structure is excetly how i think it is by the video it also parent some traits from the axis cube. But this is from my limited knowledge of cubing and speed cubing so I can't be absolute about the orientation of this puzzle.

[SuperAntoniovivaldi]

@bsteven93 That's actually a very good guess, and you're on the right track!  Think less skewb and more axis, and you're there!

[MW3FeedOfTheDay]

You should post a speed solve on all your puzzles

[SuperAntoniovivaldi]

@MW3FeedOfTheDay That may be an interesting idea. But then you'll quickly discover why I'm a terrible speed cuber. Puzzles keep flying out of my hands! and then I keep slowing down to describe what I'm doing :)

[MW3FeedOfTheDay]

@SuperAntoniovivaldi oh thats cool im not much of a shape shift person but i like to speed cube and learn cubes i dont have

[SuperAntoniovivaldi]

@aditya95sriramgmail Very good point, and I agree. To characterize the puzzle as hexagonal based on its functioin, which I did more to remind myself that it behaves like a cube when solving, is incorrect as it's actually named for its external structure. Thanks for that very well informed correction :)

I have a few more "vacation tutorials" coming, as I just couldn't resist combining some of my favorite things, travelling and puzzle solving!

[aditya95sriramgmail]

@SuperAntoniovivaldi I think it's not called hexagonal because of the reason you stated in your video, but because; if you cut it in half along the line of symmetry, you get a planar cone with base as a hexagon. Nice video, by the way.

Sad we won't have scenic backgrounds for long, or do we?

[SuperAntoniovivaldi]

@fiboo551 Yea, bragging rights ;)

[fiboo551]

Jon: Nice video & scenery.... Any prize for guessing right ? HHHAHHAHAA

[PrinceofPersia6423]

I love your videos !