Binary Disk - How could this puzzle become more easy to produce?
Channel: OskarPuzzle
Date: 2023-01-14

Print it yourself at https://oskarvandeventer.nl/Print-It-Yourself/.  Read more at https://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38347. Binary Disk was invented as a concept in 1988. After forgetting about this design for 34 years, I finally made a prototype using 3D-printing. The object of the puzzle is to move the eight colorful tokens across the disk. By doing this, the tokens push the slider inside the disk. The original puzzle turned out to be not very interesting. To make the puzzle more interesting, the symmetry in the groove pattern was broken, the slider was split differently, two notches were added to the slider, and an pointer line was added. The puzzle is solved when the eight tokens form a cross, being parked at their "home" position. There are eight canonical solved states, where the pointer line is pointing to each of the eight colors at the edges of the disk. Because of the broken symmetries, each challenge has a different solution path and difficulty.

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