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4D Analogue of Megaminx Puzzle

roice writes "The crazy hypercubists who created the 4D and 5D Rubik's cubes (here are previous Slashdot posts on the 4-D one and the 5-D one) have now developed a free working 4-dimensional software analogue of the Megaminx puzzle. Composed of 120 dodecahedral cells, the underlying structure is arguably the most beautiful of 4D geometrical shapes, with amazing symmetries and no analogue in dimensions higher than 4. Though some have already begun working on solutions for this 'Hyperminx,' it has yet to be solved by anyone. Also, when it comes to number of positions, it dwarfs the previous puzzles by many thousands of orders of magnitude!"

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  1. I must be bored!! by gsgriffin · · Score: 0, Troll

    That can be the only reason for replying to this thread whatsoever. Hey, why don't we talk about the original pong game and the potential that has for creating world peace! About as interesting....

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