A 3x3x3 where edges and corners are optionally bandaged with red sliders.

• Inventor: Tom van der Zanden
• Mechanism: Constraints without bandaging
• Patents: Unknown
• Producer: 3D printing service
• Year: 2012
• Original Price: $0.00 USD
• Current Price: No Data

The Switch Box puzzle is a 3x3x3, but some edges and corners are bandaged together with a red part, that can slide along the edge. However, the switch can only slide in to a corner with an appropriate gap and only one switch can slide in to a given corner at a time.
This means endless variations are possible: a corner can have 1, 2, 3 or no cutouts at all. You can vary the position and count of edges with(-out) a switch. Of course it is also possible to make a variation where multiple switches can occupy a corner at once.

The particular variation shown here uses at least one of every part, but otherwise it's a bit of a mistake: it has quite little freedom. As a puzzle it's very good (hard!) but as a demonstration puzzle it's hard to find moves you can do.

At the time of its presentation it was possible to order different variants from the inventor of the puzzle. Every potential buyer has the possibility any number of sliders and any number of corners of any type so he or she could assemble the puzzle by his own taste.

Thank you to the following people for their assistance in helping collect the information on this page: Andreas Nortmann.

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