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All Five Platonic Solids Puzzle
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A quick glance at my things will tell you that I have a bit of an obsession with the Platonic solids...I've also been very in to "coordinate motion" puzzles: puzzles in which all the pieces have to move at once in order to put them together or take them apart. With this project, I've tried to exorcise both of those obsessions a little bit.
Now I own a wooden puzzle in which all 5 Platonic solids nest within each other. There was even a [NY Times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/a-puzzle-finally-makes-the-cosmic-figures-fit.html) about this puzzle. But I've always found it a bit dissatisfying; I'm not quite sure why. So I've tried my hand at making my own puzzle in which all of the Platonic solids nest within each other. And each one is a coordinated-motion puzzle as well. Each individual puzzle consists of multiple copies of just one piece, which exhibit not only the symmetry of each Platonic solid, but also the relationship between the symmetries of each.
Now I own a wooden puzzle in which all 5 Platonic solids nest within each other. There was even a [NY Times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/a-puzzle-finally-makes-the-cosmic-figures-fit.html) about this puzzle. But I've always found it a bit dissatisfying; I'm not quite sure why. So I've tried my hand at making my own puzzle in which all of the Platonic solids nest within each other. And each one is a coordinated-motion puzzle as well. Each individual puzzle consists of multiple copies of just one piece, which exhibit not only the symmetry of each Platonic solid, but also the relationship between the symmetries of each.
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