The "Pyraminx II" is based on the original design with hollowed out parts to save some material and shipping cost so that we do not have to increase the price. There will soon also be a version available with unglued caps for speedcubing. If this model proves popular we will phase out the original solid pieces "Pyraminx"
The Pyraminx was the first puzzle to be produced by Meffert.
The Pyraminx was invented in the early 1970¡¯s, by Uwe Meffert as a mathematical model as part of his research. The worldwide success of the Rubik¡¯s Cube led to the Pyraminx
going into mass production and sold 90 million puzzles in the first 3 years world wide, making it the second most popular puzzle in the world ever.
Mechanism
The Pyraminx can be rotated around any of its four axis in 120 deg. turns. This makes it hard enough to be a real challenge, but easy enough to master without help in a few days.
It has precision injection molded parts and a spring-loaded ball bearing mechanism which makes operation easy and exact.
The Puzzle objective
The idea of the puzzle is to scramble the colors and then return them to the initial state of four single-colored sides or create thousands of beautiful patterns of your own. There are
only 75? Million possible positions of the Pyraminx. It is Theoretically possible to solve the Pyraminx from any of those positions in 12 moves or less, but in actuality it should
take about 20 moves once you have mastered it.