Rising Star
A sawtooth star whose centre square is itself a smaller sawtooth star, drawn on an eight-by-eight grid.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Grid Type
- four-patch
- Piece Count
- 33
- Tags
- four-patchflying-geeseintermediatetraditional
- Also appears in
- Four PatchStars
Construction Tips
Piece the small star first; it becomes the centre square of the large star.
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