The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections
By Stewart T. Coffin

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Chapter 9 - Polyhedral Puzzles with Dissimilar Pieces
The Permutated Third Stellation

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The fortuitous geometrical circumstance occurring with the Permutated Second Stellation, which allows the second stellation to be assembled from a fully permutated set of puzzle pieces, can be exploited in many other polyhedral shapes. The analogous set of pieces for the third stellation is shown in Fig. 109. It likewise has two solutions and four sliding axes. Theoretically, it should be no more difficult than the second stellation, but it is probably slightly more confusing because of the greater irregularity of the pieces.

Fig. 109

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