Flexahex Puzzles

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   These can be viewed as a construction of polyhexes on angled planes, with the pieces allowed to "flex" across the joints. I coined the name "Flexahexes" for puzzles of this type.

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Flexahexes with 7-fold symmetry
 
Three sets of tetraflexahexes Tri-, Tetra- and Pentaflexahexes  

   The hexagons here are quite elongated making the polyforms very distorted in some cases. However, this is the only geometry which works where the seven planes contain a central nexus.

 

Tri-, Tetra- and Pentaflexahexes with 7-fold symmetry and no central nexus
     

 

Flexahexes with 5-fold symmetry and no central nexus
Mono-through-Tetraflexahexes Mono-through-Tetraflexahexes Pentaflexahexes
 
Mono-through-Pentaflexahexes Mono-through-Pentaflexahexes  

 

Flexahexes with 10-fold symmetry and no central nexus
 
Mono-through-Pentaflexahexes    

 

 

Flexomino Puzzles

 

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