Puzzle of the Year 2007 Winner

Noah · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:45 pm

Katsuhiko Okamoto's Void Cube!

Topic Link: http://puzzle3d.hp.infoseek.co.jp/voidcube.html
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LEpAujrMuE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENBdCiFWAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoGp_-Bwmmo

Runners Up position is a tie between Lee Tutt's Icosaminx and and Adam Cowan's Super X 2.0.

Here is the finalist's thread.
viewtopic.php?t=8719

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:42 pm

I should have ran away with it when I had the chance last August...!
(JUST KIDDING!!!

)

That puzzle is indeed a miracle of engineering.
Thank you Noah for organising all of this!!!

Pantazis

PS And it is puzzle, not pussle??! LOL

Darren Grewe · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:57 pm

kastellorizo wrote:

PS And it is puzzle, not pussle??! LOL

And next month we'll have the Puzzle award not the Pussle award.

Just kidding

merlintocs · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:17 pm

I had a feeling that the Void Cube or the SuperX would run away with this. Nicely done by all the puzzle builders!

Bounb · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:45 pm

Congratulations!

This puzzle certainly deserves an award.

Pembo · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:17 pm

This puzzle got an award. :wink:

Noah · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:29 pm

Pembo wrote:

This puzzle got an award. :wink:

Not from this competition. 8-)

Jin H Kim · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:04 am

Katsuhiko Okamoto can make his own very cool trophy. That transforms. And costs $8000. And would win the 2008 puzzle of the year running anyway. Which would prompt yet another cool trophy that would cost thousands and win 2009...

Noah · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:59 am

Did you pick out that price from thin air, or is that the price he was selling some Void Cubes for?

Jin H Kim · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:36 am

The day I see a custom puzzle made out of plastic and epoxy that goes for $8000 is the day I will eat my own hat...

... made out of delicious pie dough baked to flaky, tender perfection. Mmm.. I could go for some pie right now.

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

Jin H Kim wrote:

Katsuhiko Okamoto can make his own very cool trophy. That transforms. And costs $8000. And would win the 2008 puzzle of the year running anyway. Which would prompt yet another cool trophy that would cost thousands and win 2009...

Not quite what you had in mind - but there was a trophy/puzzle for the IPP, made by Brian Young. I do have one, and it's a pretty awesome burr puzzle.

http://www.mrpuzzle.com.au/webcontent41.htm

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:21 pm

Anyone know how many of these void cubes were made or is this a one-of-a-kind? If multiples were made does anyone know if some were sold and if so what the going price was?

I'd love to get my hands on one of these,
Carl

DLitwin · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:51 pm

wwwmwww wrote:

Anyone know how many of these void cubes were made or is this a one-of-a-kind? If multiples were made does anyone know if some were sold and if so what the going price was?

I'd love to get my hands on one of these,
Carl

Nick Baxter has one (and brought it to the Berkeley meet up) but I am not sure how much he paid for it

Dave

joey · **Joined:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:02 pm

Fumiki Koeski told me around 10 were actually made. I'm glad I got to play with one!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowmo/1571663573/

TheCube · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:00 pm

i wonder how to take a void cube apart, lol

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

TheCube wrote:

i wonder how to take a void cube apart, lol

There is an easy way to take any puzzle apart. Isn't there Darren?

TheCube · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:03 pm

im not darren, if you were talking to me....

but then how would you put the void cube back together?

Darren Grewe · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:12 pm

Tony Fisher wrote:

TheCube wrote:

i wonder how to take a void cube apart, lol

There is an easy way to take any puzzle apart. Isn't there Darren?

Yes there is Tony!!! :wink:

Drop it by accident. I was getting ready to show Noah when he came over to my house and I was do to much at once and it only dropped somewhere around a foot. The corners came off.

TheCube wrote:

im not darren, if you were talking to me....

but then how would you put the void cube back together?

No he was talking to me. Sorry about that!!!

Noah · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:58 pm

Just for clarification, Darren dropped a Halpern-Meier Tetrahedron, not a Void Cube.

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