What's up, YouTube. My name's Kenneth.
Today I'm gonna talk about these really awesome and very rare Dogic puzzles.
So, both these puzzles come from about 2005,
and they were both made by Meffert's.
And I actually, received this one as a Christmas gift,
and it was something I'd asked for and I was really excited about.
And I got it, and it came with, like, a bag full of all of the tiles,
and you could choose whatever color scheme you preferred.
And so I went with the 12-color version; I thought it looked cooler.
And, so this is the one I kind of decided to put it together as.
Funny story about this one -- this is the 10-color version
and this actually was a gift for my twin brother, Kevin,
and he's the one who pranked me, last year for April Fool's.
But there's kind of a funny story. So, about a year or so after having these puzzles,
eventually, he actually just gave this to me as a-- He thought-- He wasn't nearly into puzzles as I was,
so he handed it to me. And, you know, at the time, he probably thought it was worth maybe 20 bucks.
But, funny story -- now these puzzles are worth about $500 a piece on eBay.
So, anyway, I think I got the last laugh. He may have scrambled my entire collection,
but, he handed me a puzzle without really knowing its value, so...
Anyway, this is mine. He doesn't get it back. (LAUGHS)
So, here's the 10-color version.
The 10-color version is kinda interesting. So, each, triangle has a solid color on the 10-color version.
And so, the way you turn it is you can turn the entire, like, pentagon, these large pentagons.
And when you do that, the tiles don't really change at all. And so it still looks kinda solved to me.
But what I prefer, though, is to have the colors right next to each other like this.
So, this is the way I like the solved state.
You've got two colors here, then two here, then two there, two here, two there. I prefer that.
But because, it doesn't really matter -- there's lots of solved states -- you can do whatever you want.
So, you know, sometimes I had it where, I have opposite colors the same.
So, like, red up here and red down here. And I did that for a while.
But I think I like this way. I think it looks pretty cool like this.
Besides the pentagon moves, the kind of inner pentagons also turn, the vertices.
And, yeah, they kinda spin like that. And so, yeah, that's how-- that's how the puzzle moves.
The 12-color version is a little bit different because the vertices are all the same color,
and what that means is that the-- if you turn a vertex like that, it doesn't matter. It's still solved.
But, the vertices are actually really easy to solve on this version of the puzzle
because you can do a move like this where-- like a large pentagon move, and then you can turn a vertex,...
and then you can undo the large, pentagon move.
And now you've kinda switched this piece with that piece.
So you can easily, kinda, build these vertices, and it's not too difficult to solve the vertices.
But besides that, they're pretty easy to solve. I think, it's about the same difficulty of a megaminx.
So they're not too hard. But yeah, I think they're really awesome puzzles.
They were first-- it was first patented back in, like, 1993, and they did a very limited run.
Then Meffert's actually was able to get the actual moulds of the puzzle, and he did a second run,
and that's where these two came from back in 2005.
And he only produced about 2000 of these. So, yeah, there's not many out there, and now they're super rare.
I'm really happy I was into cubing then, and that's when I was able to get 'em.
Another cool fact about these puzzles is, they are icosahedrons, so they've got 20 sides.
And then also they have about the same number of positions, as a 5x5, so you can scramble 'em.
This one, I think it's, like, 10^82 different positions.
Where this one has, like, 10^60-something positions.
So, yeah, it's about the same order as a 5x5.
Anyway, these puzzles have been just sitting in my collection for a long time,
and, I've done a couple videos on them, but they've all been in the context of my entire collection,
so I just wanted to show you guys more detail about these really awesome and rare puzzles.
And, yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I do try to come out with new videos every two weeks
unless I've got family responsibilities or, work stuff.
But, yeah, so anyway, I'm really happy to keep making these videos.
Anyway, thanks, guys, for watching, and for commenting and doing all the things you do.
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And that's it, guys. Thanks for watching, and of course, have a great day.
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