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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Marbler is puzzle version of Yosuke Ikeda's Algoloop . I met Ikeda in Kanazawa 2019, where he performed his entertaining "Hello Goodbye" show. Ikeda's Algoloop is a mesmerizing piece of hand-operated moving-marble kinetic art. It begged to be turned into a puzzle, w...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Diskussion is a magnetic sequential-movement puzzle. The tokens are 12x3-millimeter magnetic disks. There are also five magnets embedded in the frame. When one of the four rotors is turned such that the void goes over an embedded magnet, then the adjacent magnetic token will ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Gearu was inspired by a suggestion by Jared McComb: "Imagine you have a ring of knobs all sticking out of a flat plane. If you turn one knob, in either direction, the next knob counter-clockwise also turns with it, but the one clockwise does not. So A turns with B, B tur...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Gearo is based on an idea by Bram Cohen: "We want three gears where two of them can get rotated at once while the other is forced to stay in place. Since you want the LCM on any two gears to not be 1 and them to all be about the same the cleanest set is 12, 15, and 20 te...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Binary Disk was invented as a concept in 1988. After forgetting about this design for 34 years, I finally made a prototype using 3D-printing. The object of the puzzle is to move the eight colorful tokens across the disk. By doing this, the tokens push the slider inside the di...

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Hi Non-Twisty Puzzles fans, Penta Windmill is a 5-armed variation to the earlier 3-armed Windmill puzzle . The switch shuffles the falling tokens left-right-left-right, after which a spring resets it to its original state. Alas, the mechanism jams a lot and the puzzle is not fun to solve. Watch the ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Gear Cube Junior is a minimalistic version of Gear Cube. Urich Meffert asked to design a Gear Cube as simple as possible. Watch the YouTube video . Download the CAD file to print-it-yourself . Buy the puzzle at my iMaterialise Shop . Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop . Read...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Windmill Duo is a token-dropping puzzle. It is a spin-off of the Windmill Puzzle. Five colorful tokens slide through the arms of the windmill shape. In the middle, there is a switch that routes the tokens in pairs left-left-right-right-... The object of the puzzle is to scram...

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Hi Non-Twisty Puzzles fans, Windmill Too is a token-dropping puzzle. Five colorful tokens slide through the arms of the windmill shape. In the middle, there is a switch that routes the tokens left-right-left-right. The object of the puzzle is to scramble the tokens and then solve the puzzle. Whereas...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Windmill Puzzle is a token-dropping puzzle. Five colorful tokens slide through the arms of the windmill shape. In the middle, there is a switch that routes the tokens left-right-left-right. The object of the puzzle is to scramble the tokens and then solve the puzzle. Whereas ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Haunted Vault is a numbers puzzle. If you turn one knob of the vault, the other knobs start turning too. The object is to turn the knobs such that the dials end at 00-00-00-00. The vault is filled with gears with gearing ratios like 21/34 and 34/43. The vault uses one-way bea...

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Hi Shapeways fans, Panex Duo is a doubled version of the classic Panex puzzle , invented by Toshio Akanuma and manufactured by Tricks Company in Japan in the 1980's. Whereas the original Panex puzzle has two columns of pieces that need to be switched and an empty one, Panex Duo has five columns of p...

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Hi Non-Twisty Puzzles fans, Panex Galaxy is an extended version of the classic Panex puzzle , invented by Toshio Akanuma and manufactured by Tricks Company in Japan in the 1980's. Whereas the original Panex puzzle has two columns of pieces that need to be switched and an empty one, Panex Galaxy has ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Panex Junior is a simplified version of the classic Panex puzzle , invented by Toshio Akanuma and manufactured by Tricks Company in Japan in the 1980's. Whereas the original Panex puzzle has two columns of ten pieces that need to be switched, Panex Junior has only a single co...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Screw Enigma is a variation to the classic twisty puzzle Engel's Enigma . This version has threaded sides. So when a circle is turned, all its pieces move up or down simultaneously, 1 mm per 60-degrees turn. This literally adds an extra dimension to the puzzle. However, I am ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Spaghetti Junction is name after a crazy category of highway intersections , where several highways and local road meet, and that are connected with many flyovers. The puzzle was inspired by Devin Montes' Chain Puzzle . However, where Devin's puzzle has only a single viaduct,...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Over-and-Under is a moving-balls twisty puzzle. The puzzle was inspired by Devin Montes' Chain Puzzle . However, where Devin's puzzle has only a single viaduct, Over-and-Under has two of them. The puzzle is scrambled by moving the balls and clicking the two halves between the...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Does-It-Scramble is a spherical twisty puzzle with an enigmatic name. It was developed by playing around with a geometry similar to Rocket Twist and Rocket Star , but with four-fold symmetry instead of three-fold or five-fold. However, can this puzzle be actually scrambled? T...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Glow Cube is a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube that uses glow-in-the-dark material. A regular Rubik's Cube can only be solved when there is light, because one would need to see the stickers. Conversely, Glow Cube can only be solved in the dark when the stickers light up. Glow Cube is usin...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Das Cube Too is a shape variation to Das Cube . The four large corners and three large edges stay always together because of the puzzle's internal structure. The three large edges are shaped such that they can slide along each other, but not along the small edges. So any ille...

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Raphael, Please contact me about this privately (https://oskarvandeventer.nl/index_contact.htm). Whereas I love the beauty of your shapemods, these are shapemods of Mefferts puzzles of my design, and you did not ask for permission for their mass production. That makes them technically knock-offs. MO...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Turn Four is based on an idea by Sjaak Griffioen. Sjaak wanted nine squares in a 3x3 grid, where any combination of 2x2 could be rotated by multiples of 90 degrees. Wim Zwaan built him a wooden prototype where one could lift out four square with your fingers. Whereas the puzz...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Offset Oct a relates to Minimal Octa like Offset Hex relates to Minimal Hex . Minimal Octa is simple deep-cut spherical twisty puzzle with eight cuts. Offset Octa has the same eight cuts, but with an offset, resulting in a slightly different puzzle. The offset is possible, as...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Heptaclaw is a 7-fold-symmetry variation to the Penta Mystery puzzle, which has five-fold symmetry. The puzzle has been colored to show two seven-fingered "claw" shapes: one black and one colorfull. One can reorient the direction of the black "claw" in two...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Sloppy Cube is a cubic shapemod of Melty D , suggested by David Tzur. The dihedral angle between axes is 87 degrees. This makes the cube look sloppy, even though it is highly accurate, and all faces are identical. As analysed by Bram Cohen, Melty D is a fascinating puzzle to ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Slice Megaminx is a dodecahedral twisty puzzle where opposite sides are connected via the core. As a consequence, only slice moves can be made. The concept was originally suggested by Bram Cohen. What makes Slide Megaminx special, is that opposite corners always stay opposite...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Das Cube is Cubic version of Das Twist . The mechanism makes sure that the stickered cubes always stay connected and together. The mechanism is based on the Linked Cube concept by Evgeniy Gregoriev. The mechanism is upgraded in order not to have any overshoot when entering an...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Professor Rocket is a higher-order version of Rocket Twist . Its core is the same as Rocket Twist, being held together with dovetail connections. The extra layer (cf 3x3x3 -> 5x5x5) was hung onto this core. Surprisingly, this puzzle was first-time right, as it is the first hi...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Hepta Twist is a twisty puzzle that has three heptagonal cross-sections. The shape has 14 regular triangles, and several other pieces. The puzzle has the same reorienting-in-space property as Rocket Twist . That is, after two or more moves, the puzzle can be back in its initi...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Tracker Ball 3D is based on an idea by Bram Cohen. A large central sphere gear with icosahedral symmetry meshes with four smaller sphere gears that have octahedral symmetry. The puzzle as a whole has tetrahedral symmetry. The object of the puzzle is to scramble it by randomly...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Penta Mystery is a hollow spherical variation to the Rocket Star puzzle. It has been colored to show two five-fingered "claw" shapes: one black and one colorfull. One can reorient the direction of the black "claw" in two moves. This illustrates how the axe...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Hepta Mystery is the seven-fold-symmetry variation of Hollow Mystery (3-fold symmetry) and Rocket Star (5-fold symmetry). Like the other two, it has three canonical state: "base", "left" and "right". In Hepta Mystery, "base" has seven-f...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Das Twist 3D was suggested by an anonymous YouTuber , responding to the Das Twist puzzle. Das Twist 3D is a three-dimensional version of Das Twist. Whereas Das Twist has four triangles and three squares, Das Twist 3D has five tetrahedrons and four triangular prisms. The objec...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Number Escape is a failed prototype. The idea was to combine a block-into-hole puzzle (invented by Sjaak Griffioen) with a twisty puzzle. The six centers of the puzzle can rotate thanks to a twisty mechanism. The twisty puzzle is bandaged, as some of the rotating edges are jo...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Offset Hex is an offset version of Minimal Hex . Minimal Hex is a deep-cut puzzle that seems to have sixfold rotation symmetry. Actually, it has only threefold symmetry from a geometry and solving perspective. This can be highlighted by offsetting the cut plane. Here the cut ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Invertiminx is a part of a Megaminx turned inside-out. It was inspired by Tony Fisher's Open Petaminx . Invertiminx has its corners and edges sticking out to the inside, a bit similar to Engel's Enigma Cubed . How do you like the effect? Watch the YouTube video . Buy the puzz...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Rocket Star is related to the Rocket Twist puzzle. However, instead of threefold symmetry, Rocket Star has five-fold rotational symmetry. The puzzle has six corners, five edges, twenty triangles and five semi-hidden centers. In its solved state, the puzzle has five active rot...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Almost-a-Pyraminx is an obvious successor of Almost-a-Cube and Almost-a-Skewb . The puzzle has the same strange property of reorienting axes as Almost-a-Skewb. The puzzle is equivalent to Rocket Twist . Watch the YouTube video . Buy the puzzle at my iMaterialise Shop . Buy th...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Almost-a-Skewb looks a bit like a Skewb puzzle. However, where the rotation planes of a regular Skewb are four hexagons, for this puzzle they are three octagons and a hexagon. The puzzle has several stored cuts. It is a jumbling puzzle. It is also quasi-doctrinaire, as it can...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Quasi Twist is sort-of a quasi-christallic twisty puzzle. Its geometry is the same as Rocket Twist and Hollow Mystery . This version was made to highlight the pentagonal symmetries created with triangles and squares. Watch the YouTube video . Buy the puzzle at my iMaterialise...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Hollow Mystery is a hollow Jaap's Sphere version of Rocket Twist , illustrating its unique geometrical properties. The puzzle has three squares, four triangles and three "diangles" wrapped around a sphere. At its initial state, the puzzle has three rotation axes, ea...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Rocket Twist is an unusual twisty puzzle. It has four corners, three edges and three centers. It looks like a rocket in its solved state. The puzzle is a jumbling puzzle that seems to operate like a quasi-doctrinaire twisty puzzle. What makes the puzzle unusual is that the ro...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Das Twist is a minimalistic twisty puzzle. Its mechanism is based on the Boomdas puzzle . The puzzle uses a clicking mechanism with 5-mm magnet cubes to keep the pieces together, and an honor system not to disassemble the puzzle. The puzzle has four triangles and three sort-o...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Frucht Twist is based on an idea by Melinda Green who wanted to see a twisty puzzle with no overall symmetry. Her friend Don Hatch realized there must exist such a minimal graph producing a puzzle with 3-color corners, and he quickly found the Frucht graph . He then used his ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Twisty Ring is a quasi-doctrinaire puzzle. Its centers corrspond to the vertices of the heptagonal antiprism . Watch the YouTube video . Buy the puzzle at my iMaterialise Shop . Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop . Read more at the iMaterialise Forum . Read more at the Shape...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Engels Enigma Cubed is a tribute to Doug Engel, who invented the original Engels Enigma in 1982, and who is considered the godfather of circle puzzles. This shapemod of his puzzle features cube corners and edges at one side. The purpose of this puzzle is to show that circle p...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Almost-a-Gigaminx is, as it name says, almost a Gigaminx puzzle. However, its dihedral angle is slightly smaller. As a result, the sides are less than pentagonal, but more than square. The puzzle has six functional axes, and two layers for each axis. Watch the YouTube video ....

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Almost-a-Cube is, as it name says, almost a cube. The puzzle mechanism is based on a cubic 5x5x5. However, the dihedral angle between adjacent axes is not the regular 90 degrees, but around 100 degrees. This results in a distorted cubic puzzle with only four functional rotati...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Hollow Skewb is a hollowed-out version of the classic Mefferts Skewb puzzle. Watch the YouTube video . Buy the puzzle at my iMaterialise Shop . Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop . Read more at the iMaterialise Forum . Read more at the Shapeways Forum . Check out the photos ...

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Hi Twisty Puzzles fans, Fenzy C is a shallower-cut version of Melty C . The shallower cuts help better understand the geometry of this puzzle. The name of this puzzle is a tribute to the Chinese puzzle designer known as Fenz, who has been exploring geometries similar to this, see also this post abou...

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