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The website of
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| Flexagons and Flexagon
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| Flexagons
are fascinating manipulative toys made from folded strips
of paper which, when flexed, change shape and pattern in
remarkable ways. Flexagon treatments are presentations of a
flexagon which turn them into puzzles, entertaining
novelties or magical effects
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Name: Black
Hole (3x2) - flexagon that opens up to a
square ring. Paper type / shape: Custom.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999.
Reference:
Diagrams:
Online diagrams are available in the pdf
Flexagons and Flexigation on the Flexagons page of this site.
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Name: Double
Cross Flexagon - puzzle treatment of the
3-state bi-linear tetraflexagon. Paper type / shape:
Custom.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1998.
Reference:
Diagrams:
The Magic of Flexagons - David Mitchell - Tarquin
- ISBN 1-899618-28-7
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Name: Hidden
Aces Flexagon - puzzle treatment of a
flexagon probably first discovered by Robert E
Neale. Paper type / shape: Custom.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1998.
Reference:
Diagrams:
The Magic of Flexagons - David Mitchell - Tarquin
- ISBN 1-899618-28-7
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Name: Ribbon
Release Trick - magical effect in which
a threaded ribbon is released from a flexagon by
flexing it. Paper type / shape: Custom.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999.
Reference:
Diagrams:
Online diagrams are available in the pdf
Flexagons and Flexigation on the Flexagons page of this site.
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Name: Windmill
Flexagon - lateral thinking /
manipulation puzzle based on a non-twisted
flexagon from a square. Paper type / shape:
Square
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1996.
Reference:
Diagrams:
Origami - Barnes and Noble - ISBN 0-7607-3331-7
// BOM 217 - December 2002 - Solution BOM 218 //
Paperfolding Puzzles (2nd Edition) - David
Mitchell - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-5-6
// On-line diagrams are available on the Puzzles page of this site.
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