Hi Twisty Puzzles fans,

Squashed Cube looks like a Rubik's Cube after being squeezed together in a vice. The six faces turn sort-of-like a Rubik's Cube, but in a very bandaged - jumbling - way. The middle slices are at an angle of 60 degrees from each other. This way, the hexagons in the center of each face can change position and orientation. This makes this puzzle very hard to solve.

You may have seen this puzzle before. The original version has a Void Cube style core. Unfortunately, it was not too stable. I redesigned the core into a bandaged 2x2x2, which is much more stable. The corners that you see of the prototype are actually one core, one corner, three centers and three edges of that bandaged 2x2x2 core. Funny, isn't it?

Watch the new YouTube video.
Watch the original YouTube video.
Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

I cannot understand it.

Nice job on the new version.

We must see the core and the pieces attached to it!

Oskar, could you show us what this would look like if it were spherical? Without holding one I'm utterly confused (though I imagine I still would be even if I was).

Very pretty work! Pengyue(Philip Wang)

I believe we are so used to viewing perspective projections of cubes, and this cube looks normal through perspective projection, but when rotated, it clearly takes on a new, totally bizarre dimension.

And what about a Squashed Dodecahedron? Is it possible ?