A mixup cube so shallow, new strange corners pieces are revealed.

• Section : Other N-Sided: Fourteen
• Inventor : Jesse Boden
• Mechanism : Mixup puzzle
• Patents : Unknown
• Producer : Customly 3D printed
• Year : 2024
• Original Price : Unknown USD

This puzzle has a set of turns similar to the mixup cube, turning like a 3x3x3 and having a 45° slice turn available, but that is where the similarities end. First, the cuts were made incredibly shallow, so shallow that the corners are left unmoved by a 3x3x3 turn, instead being included in the slice turns.
The corners were truncated into a cuboctahedron to make shapeshifting more manageable. The centers were also bandaged into 3 pieces, giving it a property like the Fractured puzzles by David Pitcher.
The small corner pieces are not real corners, instead they are a new piece type that can change between corner positions and center positions. Because 3x3x3 turns can't move them like regular corners, they are very hard to move around the puzzle. Without the shape these corners would have been visible.
The inventor transformed it into a cuboctahedron to avoid a strange problem: Designed in shape of a cube the turns would go under the protruding corners, and they would block your fingers when trying to complete a turn. To illustrate the design, see image 6.
The puzzle was named after the lotus shaped petals on each side.
Printed on a Creality Ender 3 v2 in black PLA.
Diameter (inner): 63 mm
Weight: 108 grams

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