Is it a cube ?
NO!!
Is it a lemon ??
NOO!!!
What is it then???
It is SUPERTOP!!!
Well, not that much "super" about it, just a Rubik's cube type puzzle ( regular 3x3x3 mechanism) that is supposed to look like a lemon.
I ordered it
here because it looked to me as if I could easily put a string to it and throw a boomerang like we have seen it done in
this topic with puzzles made especially for that purpose.
The following video shows that it can be spun by hand alright and that it can do the puzzle cube turns. It has to be aligned well before a move, it is not as forgiving as modern 3x3x3 cubic puzzles, but then the movement is smooth.
Putting a string on it did not work on the original shape, nothing to hold onto for the string to get a start.
After a few turns I could arrive a the following shape that I could wrap a string around.
Because the tip it can now spin on has a flat area in the center it spins a bit less well as an the other side seen in the video above, but it works if spun by hand.
So I gave it two timid tries to throw a boomerang above a sofa.
This looked more like an exercise in peeling a lemon because both times at least 5 parts of the yellow shell were pulled of by centrifugal forces and were flying through the room.
So I ended up taking almost all the loose yellow parts off and glued them back on.
After this I was still not confident again with the lemon to throw a serious boomerang. Part of that being due to the fact that I can not leave this room much and try it outside because of my isolation because of a covid infection.
Anyways, sometimes I can get a spinner. In the video you can see the moves I need to get to that shape, the process of winding and a spinner.
Edit: Just now I found another configuration that is letting me use the better point as a tip for the top and I can put a string around.
The winding of the string is more simple in this case. Also the lemon does not flip over when I throw it. That is why I call it koma lemon.I could throw a few spinners like that, I did not try a boomerang or making a video.