Shashibo Pyramid: folding a tetrahedron

Every Shashibo shape is built from just three kinds of triangles — right-angle, thin long and equilateral. The Pyramid is the shape that makes that easiest to believe.

Spotting a real Pyramid

• It is a tetrahedron: four triangular faces in total.
• Four corners, each one a point.
• Set it down on any face and the other three meet at a peak above it.
• From every side it should look like the same pyramid.

If your shape has a square base or more than four faces, you have landed somewhere else — that is fine, it is probably one of the other 70+ shapes, but it is not this one.

Where it lives on the route

Official order: Cube, Crown, Star, Hive, Pyramid, then a flat hexagonal disc. You arrive here from the Hive, and the UFO-like disc is the last stop after it.

Finding it, honestly

The official instructions show the Pyramid as a picture on the route, not as a list of moves, so we will not invent one. What works is the brand's own method: from the Hive, let the Shashibo fold through itself slowly until you feel the magnets connect, then check the silhouette against the four-face test above.

A good habit is to pause after every click and look at what you have. Pyramids tend to appear when the pieces gather toward points rather than spreading flat — if you keep flattening out, you are drifting toward the disc.

If it fights you

Back up one move. Go slower. Try rolling the pieces in the other direction. Do not press faces together — when the fold is right, the magnets close it for you. And if you would rather watch first, the brand's free app has video for the shapes on the route.