Description
The basic design of the Dogic is an icosahedron cut into 60 triangular pieces around its 12 tips and 20 face centers. All 80 pieces can move relative to each other. There are also a good number of internal moving pieces inside the puzzle, which are necessary to keep it in one piece as its surface pieces are rearranged.
There are two types of twists that it can undergo: a shallow twist which rotates the 5 triangles around a single tip, and a deep twist which rotates 5 entire faces (including the triangles around the tip) around the tip. The shallow twist moves the triangles between faces but keeps them around the same tip; the deeper twist moves the triangles between the 5 tips lying at the base of the rotated faces but keeps them on the same faces. Each triangle has a single color, while the face centers may have up to 3 colors, depending on the particular coloring scheme employed.
The current Dogics sold by Meffert come in four varieties: the 12-color version originally sold under the name "Dogic", the 20-color version originally sold under the name "Dogic 2", a new 5-color version, and a new, easy-to-solve black-and-white version. These varieties differ only in the coloring scheme; the underlying mechanism is the same. The 12-color version has 3 colors per face center, and in the solved state has 5 triangles of the same color meet at each vertex. The other versions have the same color for all 3 color indicators on the face centers, and in the solved state the triangles match in color with the faces rather than the tips. The 12-color version is the only one with a unique solved configuration; all the others have multiple configurations that could be considered solved.
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