The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections
By Stewart T. Coffin

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Chapter 10 - Intersecting Prisms
The Star Prism Puzzle

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By adding yet 12 more triangular stick segments to the Triangular Prism Puzzle, the prism faces assume the shape of the six-pointed Star of David. With 54 blocks used in the construction, a great many variations possible in the individual pieces, all having the assembled shape shown in Fig. 119.

Editor's Note: Stewart named this puzzle The General.

Fig. 119

By adding even more blocks, other sculptural effects are possible, such as extending the prisms in the opposite directions as in the models illustrated in Fig. 120. Since these complicated constructions are more artistic than logical or mathematical, details are not given here but rather left to the craftsman's imagination.

Fig. 120

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