Designing Twisty Puzzles, article by Oskar

Oskar · **Joined:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:03 pm

Hi Twisty Puzzles Friends,

Please check the Twisty Puzzles Forum Articles for my article on Designing Twisty Puzzles.

I gave this presentation at the International Puzzle Party in Berlin, August 2011.

Enjoy!

Oskar

excalvin · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:34 am

Thanks for your sharing. ^^

Sigurd · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:49 am

wow Oskar! That was very good!
I really liked reading through it! As I am getting into designing myself I found it really usefull!
:shock:

I havent seen assembling pictures of the Chopasaurus before! That alone made the PDF priceless

cubedude76 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:46 pm **Location:** Wichita

I thought the same thing! I was just staring at the chopasaurus mech for several minutes! I really enjoyed the whole thing though. Thanks for sharing!

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Brilliant presentation! It must have been extremely fascinating, I wish I'd been there to see you present.

jabeck · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:24 am

Brilliant! Answers so many little questions I had! Thanks!

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:24 am

Kelvin Stott wrote:

... I wish I'd been there to see you present.

Makes me wonder... any chance it was recorded? I'd LOVE to see the presentation as well.

Very very nice...
Carl

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:09 pm

After rereading slide 6 I had to look it up.
"The golden year" was 2010?
I am afraid I am responsible for that peak in May.

Very sad about Oskars presentation was that there was only one question after it and a non-serious one too. Seemed like the audience was stunned and unable to think anymore.

goetz · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:07 pm

Oskar, Thanks for sharing these slides with us!

I enjoyed your talk very much and it gave me an excellent overview of the recent developments, including their names, inventors, main ideas and implementations. This talk and slides are very well suited as an introduction for people saying something like: "Twisty Puzzles, like Rubik's cube? That was that one puzzle in the early eighties where you could turn some slices but never solve it again. What's so interesting about twisty puzzles then?"

zackz115 · **Joined:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:11 pm

OMG I have been looking all over these forums for something like this. Thanks Oskar!!! :mrgreen:

Drake · **Joined:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:48 pm **Location:** Canada

Wow, that's nice, thank's for doing that

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jabeck · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:36 pm

To add to the discussion (and hopefully not hijack) I'm curious where the square-1 mechanism fits into this picture? Would it be considered a deep cut puzzle, or something else entirely? Can you make a square-1 using the "rotate surface and cut" method? I've never tried designing one before, and not sure how I would do it...

Oskar · **Joined:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:03 pm

jabeck wrote:

I'm curious where the square-1 mechanism fits into this picture?

My last slide contains an apology for all the interesting twisty puzzle concepts that my presentation could not handle within one hour. Square-1 mechanisms are just one of the many subjects that I had to skip ...

Oskar

jabeck · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:47 pm

Oskar wrote:

jabeck wrote:

I'm curious where the square-1 mechanism fits into this picture?

My last slide contains an apology for all the interesting twisty puzzle concepts that my presentation could not handle within one hour. Square-1 mechanisms are just one of the many subjects that I had to skip ...

Oskar

Ah - No apology needed!

The square-1 definitely stands out as a unique puzzle in many ways...

bhearn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:44 pm

Very nice. And thanks for the mention!

Luc · **Joined:** Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:29 pm **Location:** Belgium

wwwmwww wrote:

Kelvin Stott wrote:

... I wish I'd been there to see you present.

Makes me wonder... any chance it was recorded? I'd LOVE to see the presentation as well.

Very very nice...
Carl

I recorded it with my smartphone, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m48Eb2qnwoo
Unfortunately about 1 minute is missing after 16:38

CBCubes · **Joined:** Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:25 pm

Very nice! I really want to learn how to use solidworks now..

Allagem · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:20 pm

Wow! I am totally stoked that I got my own bulletpoint! :mrgreen:

Awesome presentation Oskar!

To anyone who has been wondering: I'm still very interested in twisty puzzles and haven't fallen off the face of the Earth. I am just drowning in the chaos that is senior year for a double degree-seeking college student and have had virtually no time in over a year to keep up with the community :roll:

I still drop in every week or so to see what's been happening!

Peace,
Matt Galla

PS: Oskar, you asked me about the geometry of the Bubble Block awhile back.While I'm sure you as the inventor know the most about it, I can tell that it has 180-degree rotational symmetry around a line through the center of the two long, sliver pieces on the red face, through to the exact center of the middle of the three slivers on the orange side. I also see how you made the patterns: Certain faces are misaligned to shift exactly one layer relative to eachother. There are three instances of double slivers in an Z shape while the other sets of three slivers complete the tetrahedral topology by forming the S shape on the back. Very bizarre, but I'm not sure if I can add anything super insightful...

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

Good Manual

Thank You Oskar

very sorry that you forgot a few other puzzle classes
1) Micro puzzle (all my micro set),
2) Wavy style (Fluffy cube and other),
3) Floppy/Slim Puzzle (Floppy Cube, Slim pyraminx and other),
4) Hybrid: Circle + Void (Zeroid cube),
5) inner blocking puzzle (Constrained Cube, Latch Cube and other)
6) Magnet puzzle (Little Chop, 48 cube and other)
7) Sticker MOD (Esher cube, Watermelon cube and other)

iaroslavski · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:34 am

Extremely interesting presentation!

X-TownCuber · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:37 pm

very interesting. you covered most of the types of puzzles that there are.

Sigurd · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:46 am

Luc wrote:

wwwmwww wrote:

Kelvin Stott wrote:

... I wish I'd been there to see you present.

Makes me wonder... any chance it was recorded? I'd LOVE to see the presentation as well.

Very very nice...
Carl

I recorded it with my smartphone, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m48Eb2qnwoo
Unfortunately about 1 minute is missing after 16:38

Thanks for the video! I watched through the short 40 minutes it was

It's funny how Oskar has some nice ways of pronouncing some words

"Idea" [ID]
"Puzzle" [Purzle]
"Blocked" [blurked]

jabeck · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:06 am

Oskar - My wife and I both enjoy your accent as well!

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