Flexagon Portal - Hexaflexagon Maps

Magic Flexagons

Tips for Folding

Here are some general tips for cutting, folding, pasting, and constructing flexagons.

Flexagon Challenge

If you want to test your flexagon skills, check out the dodecaflexagons. Below is a tetra-dodecaflexagon with fractal faces folded from a hexagonal template.

Triflex with Pattern

Here is a Trihexaflexagon with an interesting color pattern. Fold as for other Trihexaflexagons.

Recommended Links

Check out all of the Ann Schwartz flexagon articles here.

Here are some of the best technical articles on the flexagon available mostly by Dr. McIntosh and also hosted by Dr. McIntosh.

Les Pook not only has a facinating website he also has a great book, I think the only book in print, on flexagons.

Scott Sherman has the best information on how to make a large variety of flexagon beasts anywhere on the web.

Hexaflexagon Maps - 3 to 6 sides

This page shows the details for the construction of the first 6 simplist Hexaflexagons. These maps are all based on the 1962 paper by A. S. Conrad which can be found here:

http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~mcintosh/comun/tflexagon/tflexagon.pdf

See, Hexaflexagon Construction , for an explanation of these diagrams. The first set of maps are for the three simplest hexaflexagons. For each of the following 3, 4, and 5 sideded hexaflexagons, there is only one variation.

Now for the 6 sided Hexaflexagons. In this case there are three variations and all of them are quite interesting! Here they are:

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