Name of Puzzle

[Nos7portuga]

Hi Guys,

a friend of mine offered me a puzzle.
Is a 14 faced polyhedron and he looks like a UFO.
The 2 bases are non regular hexagons and the lateral faces are trapezoids.

The moves are similar to 3x3 and i can see the puzzle like a truncated cube.

Anyone know the name of the puzzle?

 

[Owen]

Sounds like a Pillow Cube. It's actually quite rare.

 

[bluecloe45]

Giving pictures and posting in the cube identification thread will be a better idea.

 

[Nos7portuga]

here is the puzzle http://www.miniinthebox.com/irregularly-magic-ds-puzzle-brain-teaser-iq-cube_p124262.html

 

[Julian]

You could also post on the twistypuzzles.com forum.

 

[Ordos_Koala]

shape is called tetrakaidecahedron, didn't find nothing more but it looks really nice

 

[Nos7portuga]

shape is called tetrakaidecahedron, didn't find nothing more but it looks really nice

Nops, tetrakaidecahedron have 6squares-8hexagons
This one have 2 hexagons and 12 trapezoids.

The name of the polyhedron is HExagonal Bifrustum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_bifrustum

 

[theace]

That's the diansheng tank or something if I'm not mistaken.

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

That's the diansheng tank or something if I'm not mistaken.

You are not. it is indeed the Diansheng tank

 

[Nos7portuga]

Tkz guys

 

[Kickflip1993]

Looks like a truncated Hexagonal Dipyramid

edit: didn´t read wikipedia post, sorry guys, ignore me^^