It might be hard to believe that the Skewb is a Pyraminx shape mod. If you take apart the two puzzles you can see that they're both built on a similar core mechanism. How to solve a Pyraminx Turn the Pyraminx so that you are facing the side where the other color has been matched up with its colored bottom center. The yellow edge piece will either be on the left or right side from the front face. The Pyraminx, also known as the triangle Rubik's Cube is a tetrahedron-shaped 3-layered twisty puzzle, having four triangular faces which are all divided into nine identical smaller triangles. This is the second best selling puzzle toy in the World after the Rubik's Cube with over 100 million pieces sold. All that's left isto permute/cycle the last layer edges. Take the puzzle in your hands with thescrambled face on the left and perform the requred turns, depending on your case. Repeat these steps to solve the remaining edge pieces. If done correctly, the first layer will be solved entirely. You will have the yellow face complete (which was on the bottom), and the bottom layer of the other three faces will be all blue, red, and green for each side.

To do this, find the side where two edge colors do not match with the rest of the face(The other two sides will only have one color that doesn’t match with the rest of the colors on that particular face) First Case: You will have two edge pieces remaining for this case. Looking at the unsolved pieces from the different sides, you will notice immediately that the two colors on both edges just need to be swapped with each other to complete the puzzle. Look at the three different colored sides of the Pyraminx and locate the unsolved yellow edge pieces. The solution of the Pyraminx begins with turning the 4 corners ( A) to match the center pieces. Tthis is just a simple turn for each corner because the three sides of the center pieces ( B) are linked together. When the tips are OK, deep turn the puzzle to make the three center colors match on all faces. Try to reach the state on the image above! When you're done all that's left is solving the remaining 6 edge pieces ( C). 3. Two edges next to one cornerThe first official WCA Pyraminx competition was organized in 2003 and the winner was the American Andy Bellenir who solved the puzzle in 14.09 seconds. These days the best results range from 1 to 3 seconds, but the World record is under one second. Online Pyraminx Solver Start the Pyraminx simulator The Pyraminx family

The first puzzle on the image is not a 2x2 Pyraminx because that would be too simple where you would only have to turn the peaks and that would solve it instantly. The Pyramorphix is actually a 2x2 shape mod. It was invented by Uwe Mèffert (Germany) in 1971 but it was patented only later seeing the success of the Rubik's Cube in 1981. Meffert invented several other famous puzzles like the Megaminx, Skewb, Skewb Diamond, Teraminx, Dogic (icosahedron-shaped puzzle), and the list goes on. Other inventors were inspired by the 4-axle mechanism, Tony Fisher used it for the Golden Cube and Golden Egg.Turn the entire Pyraminx so that the yellow face is on the bottom side, now the base of the Pyraminx. In this stage we want to solve three edges around the top corner. Use the Right and Left algorithms below depending on the direction of the insertion. These leave the pieces marked with the asterisk ( *) in place. Usually you'll need an algorithm for the last piece because the first two can be solved intuitively. Solve the edges. At this point, your centers and tips must all be yellow. The only thing left to solve now is the yellow face's edge pieces.