Hurricane

This CAD model was designed by Oskar van Deventer, copyright (c), 30 October 2024.

Hurricane is an eight-piece puzzle, where the object of the puzzle is to take the puzzle apart. Each pair of pieces is tangled such a way that it takes two moves to separate them: one to swap a parity and another for the full separation. So a total of 2x eight-choose-two = 56 moves is needed. However, the moves require careful logistics. If you fully remove two pieces from each other too early, then other pieces can not longer be separated.

The puzzle is an extension of my Lucky Clover puzzle (design 27 August 2002, production by Bits & Pieces), which has four identical pieces. Summer 2023, Bram Cohen showed me a four-piece puzzle: "Hey Oskar, I believe I have re-invented your Lucky Clover puzzle"). The puzzles were indeed very similar: similar rings, same logistical challenge. However, Bram's puzzle had two pieces of one type and two of another (almost mirrored) type. More than a year later, it just clicked with me: we could combine Bram's concept with mine and have eight pieces, 4x type A and 4x type B. Hurricane is solved by First performing 8+8 moves to separate the A set from the B set. Then each of the set is solved in a similar way as Lucky Clover.

Here are some links about this design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XssFf1u7nJU
https://i.materialise.com/en/shop/item/hurricane
https://i.materialise.com/forum/t/hurricane-by-oskar/3846
https://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40014

Feel free to 3D-print an extra sample to give to a friend, as long as you mention the designer and don't charge money.

If you are planning to sell some samples, then please contact me for a license agreement. The royalty fee is 10% of your selling price.

Please do not upload the design to a commercial service, or redistribute the design in any way other than linking to the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XssFf1u7nJU

Enjoy!

Oskar
22 February 2025

Contact: 
https://oskarvandeventer.nl/index_contact.php?subject=Print%20It%20Yourself


