This polyhedron is a highlight from more than 30,000 private collections of the puzzle enthusiast, Jerry Slocum, a retired engineer and ex-vice president of Hughes Aircraft. He donated his special possessions to the Lilly Library of Indiana University, and an unprecedent exhibition of puzzles is set to be convened next week! Don't miss this expo, as it is learned that there is an ancient Chinese general's masterpiece (a version of 65 intertwinned Chinese rings) which would nearly take 18,446,744,074 billion steps to solve, “Assuming one move every second, that would be 56 billion years, or four times the age of the universe”.(picture credit: Michael Taylor of IU via New York Times)
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