Alexander's Star

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Alexander's Star

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Alexander's Star is a puzzle invented by Adam Alexander in 1982. It is a great dodecahedron with 30 moving pieces in the style of a magic polyhedron, (the most famous of which is the Rubik's Cube) which rotate in star-shaped groups of five around the outermost vertices. The challenge of the puzzle is to get it to a state in which each star is surrounded by five faces of the same color, and opposite stars are surrounded by the same color; this is equivalent to solving just the edges of a six-color Megaminx.

There are 29!×2^13 positions, or 7.2×10³⁴.

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Description and solution

v • d • e Rubik's Cube
Inventor	Ernő Rubik
Rubik's Cubes	Overview • 2×2×2 (Pocket Cube) • 3×3×3 (Rubik's Cube) • 4×4×4 (Rubik's Revenge) • 5x5x5 (Professor's Cube)
Cubic variations	Square 1 • Skewb • Sudokube
Non-cubic variations	Megaminx • Pyramorphix • Pyraminx • Skewb Diamond • Skewb Ultimate • Dogic • Alexander's Star
Derivatives	Rubik's Magic • Rubik's Snake • Missing Link • Rubik's Revolution • Rubik's Clock
World record holders	Edouard Chambon
Solvers	Jessica Fridrich • Lars Petrus • Ron van Bruchem • Chris Hardwick • Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi • Tyson Mao • Leyan Lo
Solutions	God's algorithm • Optimal • Speedcubing
Mathematics	Rubik's Cube group
Related Articles	List of Rubik's Cube software