Puzzle, Truncated Cube
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle is in the shape of a truncated cube, with its eight corners sliced off. It was made in Taiwan and received in an -open box that looks like a Rubik's Cube.
label: Description
content: The eight corners of a cube are sliced so the puzzle has eight silver faces that are equilateral triangles and six octagonal faces of the same colors as the traditional Rubik's cube, blue, orange, green, red, yellow and white. The Diamond (see 2006.0061.09) is also a truncated cube. The slices in the Diamond are larger so the six faces do not join opposite vertices of the corner squares but, instead, join the midpoints of the center edge squares producing six squares rather than six octagons.
label: Description
content: This puzzle is among Rubik’s Cube related items from the Cube Museum, which operated in Grand Junction, Colorado, from 1988 to 1991. For more information about the Rubik’s Cube and other twisting puzzles that use the same or similar mechanisms see 1987.0805.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Twisting Puzzles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cecil Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0061.13
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0061.13
label: accession number
content: 2006.0061
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 5 cm x 5 cm; 1 31/32 in x 1 31/32 in x 1 31/32 in