KiteDart Jigsaw

This CAD model was designed by Oskar van Deventer, copyright (c), 16 August 2025 

KiteDart Jigsaw was developed together with Craig Kaplan, who is famous for his contributions to the "Einstein" aperiodic monotiling. The puzzle is based on the aperiodic kites-and-darts Penrose tiling. Craig showed how a single kite or dart can be transformed to a jigsaw piece made of multiple smaller kites and darts. The two types of pieces are based on the kite and the dart piece respectively. The jigsaw pieces enforce the Penrose rules to assure aperiodicity. The goal it to make the 40 pieces (25+15) fit into the two-part frame. The puzzle may look difficult to solve. However, once one understands the relationship with the kite-dart pattern in the frame, it becomes much easier. The frame is held together by twenty 2-mm-thick, 3-mm-diameter cylinder magnets.

Here are some links about this design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzhwqDE37fo
https://puzzleguy.store/products/kitedart-jigsaw-not-your-usual-jigsaw-puzzle
https://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40442

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=CzhwqDE37fo

Enjoy!

Oskar
6 September 2025

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