Spectre Tile Puzzle

Starting to play with "spectre" tiles...

Trying to scale spectre tiles for a new puzzle... the goal is to make them feel equivalent to the hat tiles in my previous puzzle. I think equal area, shown here, is the way to go, and it has the benefit that the new puzzle ends up with the same number of pieces as the previous puzzle.

Whee, almost ready to place a new laser cutting order!

Also, TFW you end up having to reuse throwaway code that you never bothered to comment or clean up, and all of the underlying assumptions (like tiling on a regular grid) change out from under you ;-)

The great thing about parametric CAD is that, after you spend way too much time on the first version of something, subsequent versions are almost free ;-)

Whee, order placed... lasers will be fired up, parts will be shipped, lessons will undoubtedly be learned ;-)

The new spectre puzzle parts have been cut and are on their way...

Well, that was fast!

Doh, I wasn't able to remove this one piece from the shrink-wrap without breaking it.

I really hate this packaging, especially for so many small parts. They don't always use it.

Here we go...

Doh. Doh. Doh.

Success!

It has the same number of pieces as the hat puzzle, but I think it's a bit easier.

I have a solution for the fragile border: making it a dodecagon creates more space around the edges where the hexagonal border was most fragile. It also distinguishes it more from the hat puzzle.

New parts day! The new “spectre” puzzle border looks great