Gear Skewb by OSKAR

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

Hi Twisty Puzzles fans,

Gear Skewb is based on the well-known tetrahedral/octahedral Skewb geometry, or actually on the Master Skewb. Twenty-four gears guide the rotation of this puzzle.

Watch the YouTube video
Buy the puzzle from my Shapeways Shop
Read more at the Shapeways Forum
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

P.S. I also built a Gear Octahedron, which is essentially the same puzzle. Unfortunately, it turned out a bit delicate, with pieces occasionally falling out. More info: see YouTube and my Shapeways Shop.

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Luke · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:36 am

Beautiful puzzle Oskar. I love it. You now need to make a Gear Master Pentultimate. :lol:

(I'm not joking either

)

Sharon · **Joined:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:25 pm **Location:** Israel

This is crazy =) amazing puzzle, I hope to see it MP by mefferts some time soon.

Sharon

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

These are my new favourite gear puzzles, they look really complicated!

I'm not sure I'd like getting my fingers caught in the gears though.

Alex

Sigurd · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:47 am

SEBUVER wrote:

Beautiful puzzle Oskar. I love it. You now need to make a Gear Master Pentultimate. :lol:

(I'm not joking either

)

My initial thought as well! Please make it!

More geared puzzles please!

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:08 am

Very, Very nice!!

Now we know what the next meffert's puzzle is

- Greg

MonkeyZ · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:59 pm **Location:** NJ

Very nice, but isn't this more akin to a geared master skewb than a geared skewb?

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:07 am

Oskar wrote:

I also built a Gear Octahedron, which is essentially the same puzzle. Unfortunately, it turned out a bit delicate, with pieces occasionally falling out.

Interesting... these puzzles have the exact same mech... correct? So why does one work better then the other? Was one just a better print then the other?

If its a mater of the octahedron cutting in too close to the mech, you should be able to keep the mech the same size and just use a slightly larger outer octahedron. I see no reason why these two puzzles shouldn't turn as well as each other.

Carl

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

wwwmwww wrote:

I see no reason why these two puzzles shouldn't turn as well as each other.

You are correct. I designed built the Gear Octahedron first, which gave me some good learning experience to build the Gear Skewb.

kuBer · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 8:37 pm

What a great puzzle to start the year with! That is beautiful!

Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

Gear-gaminx is the next word I think of. Of course, these two are pretty impressive and I know they would end up in more pieces than there are as is if I had to solve one of them.

PuzzleMaster6262 · **Joined:** Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:00 am **Location:** Colorado

Great job! I love how the skewb geometry makes it similar to the geared mixup.

ulmboy556 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:46 pm **Location:** PA, USA

I saw the video and the reactions of the "normal people" was amazement. Glad to say I feel the same. Wonderful work as always, but is this the first higher order skewb octahedron?

Cyberdman · **Joined:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:29 am **Location:** Michigan

That is flippin' crazy! I love it.

mitchblahman · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:31 pm

this is why we cant have nice things

malevolant · **Joined:** Thu May 14, 2009 9:58 am

No you didn't! O.o incredible Oskar...simply incredible. You broke the universe...again

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