First off, I'd like to make the following announcements:

1- If you want your puzzle to be recorded on these lists (aka any puzzle), post it in the New Puzzles category. While I occasionally go to the other categories, I won't be online nearly as often this September, maybe longer, and therefore I may miss a puzzle not posted in New Puzzles. I will continue to keep my New Year's resolution going, which means I will continue to post a monthly list.

2- I'd really appreciate it if you could name your puzzle(s) if the concept is new. It hasn't been a problem this month, but I still have unnamed puzzles, all the way back to April, because of members who have not named their puzzle and did not reply to my PMs regarding names. It is perfectly acceptable to call them what they are geometrically, or if you have a creative name, I will record it under that name instead.

This month I tried something new, inspired by Mindstormscreator when he made the Excel spreadsheet consisting of every single puzzle, organized with some additional information not found in these lists. With his help, I devised a new method which makes it literally impossible to miss a puzzle, so long as it is posted in the New Puzzles category as mentioned above. That being said, I am now more sure than ever that I did not miss a single puzzle.

Without further delay (a rather ironic phrase in my opinion):

401- Aug 1- pirsquared's Master Helicopter Cube V2
402- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges A00005294
403- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges C8800044C00
404- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges A00005297
405- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges C0A00005E94
406- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges E8000140E94
407- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges E8A00145003
408- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges 8800044E97
409- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges C0A00005E97
410- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges 21E8A00145087
411- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges A528A00145297
412- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges A528A00145E97
413- Aug 2- Andreas Nortmann's OctagonalEdges A5E8A00145E97
414- Aug 2- VeryWetPaint's The Rox Box
415- Aug 3- pirsquared's Groove Cube
416- Aug 3- Olivér Nagy's Spiral Megaminx
417- Aug 3- MaCheezm0's Lazy Lazy Mans 3x3x5
418- Aug 3- Puzzlemaster6262's 4x4x4 with a Partial Twist V2
419- Aug 3- Andreas Nortmann's Rhombic Triacontahedron (Truncated Only)
420- Aug 4- kloopstomp's Magic Fuzzy Dice
421- Aug 4- Andreas Nortmann's Corner Truncated 000 001 Extended
422- Aug 4- Vladimir Yaroslavskiy's Numeric Cube
423- Aug 4- MaCheezm0's Cubic 3x3x4
424- Aug 5- Steryne's Lotus!
425- Aug 5- Mupuzzle's 5x5x1
426- Aug 5- Mupuzzle's Void Floppy
427- Aug 5- Andreas Nortmann's One Layer Star Prism
428- Aug 6- Oskar's Gift Pyramid
429- Aug 7- Chino's MegaRD
430- Aug 7- Spy_Satellite's Different 3x3x3 Sticker Mod
431- Aug 7- eye2eye's Wave Cube (Sticker Mod)
432- Aug 8- Dylan_46's Mini 3x3x3 Icosahedron
433- Aug 8- gingervergo's The Astrominx
434- Aug 8- Andreas Nortmann's Pentagonal Pyramid
435- Aug 9- Andreas Nortmann's Corner Truncated 000 011 101
436- Aug 9- Andreas Nortmann's Corner truncated 000 001 010 100
437- Aug 9- RyanZ's Fully Functional Fused 3x3x2
438- Aug 10- Drewseph's Starminx III
439- Aug 11- 0wlStudioz's X-cube
440- Aug 11- Muffet's Pentet Star
441- Aug 11- Andreas Nortmann's Decagonal prism
442- Aug 12- Kastellorizo's Happier Cube
443- Aug 12- dylan_46's trajber 3x3x5
444- Aug 12- Oskar's Anisotropic Cube
445- Aug 15- Garrett's 2x3x4
446- Aug 15- Juanan's Double Ring
447- Aug 16- Monopoly's Fused Void Cubes
448- Aug 16- Steryne's E.T.H.A.N. Puzzle
449- Aug 18- Lexi's zeroOne Cube
450- Aug 18- Apollo's Axis Rhombic Dodecahedron
451- Aug 19- Hidetoshi's Half-truncated Domino
452- Aug 19- Hidetoshi's Rainbow 3x3x4
453- Aug 19- Steryne's Lotus II
454- Aug 19- Drewseph's Quad-X
455- Aug 21- Christoph Lohe's Locked Void Cube
456- Aug 21- Oskar's Framed Cube
457- Aug 21- Timur's Master Skewb(Shim's Version)
458- Aug 21- Will_57's and cooldayr's Pillowed 6x6x6
459- Aug 22- Justin's Bauspiel Tower
460- Aug 23- HeX's Rhomaxis
461- Aug 23- clauswe's Tiny Gigaminx
462- Aug 25- Cubervietname's Hex-2
463- Aug 25- Quirky-Cubes' "Rock" Puzzle
464- Aug 25- Timur's Trignis
465- Aug 26- TomZ's Helicopter Skewb
466- Aug 26- Namegoeswhere's Helicopter Skewb
467- Aug 27- Volitar Prime's Latch Cube Sticker Mods
468- Aug 28- Oskar's Vanity Cube
469- Aug 29- Dragan's 3x3x3 Triagonal Antiprism

As usual report errors, and I will get around to it as I can. And with that, may that voting commence!

EDIT: Fixed errors, and swapped TomZ's and Namegoeswhere's Helicopter Skewbs, as TomZ's clearly came first.

I vote for:

Drewseph's Quad-X

EDIT: My second vote goes to:

Justin's Bauspiel Tower

First time voting (I'm hoping I do this correctly...)

I vote for:

Master Helicopter Cube (v2) - pirsquared
Starminx III - Drewseph

I'm pretty sure the Void Floppy and the 5x5x1 are mupuzzles's puzzles. I may be wrong, though.

I vote for:
1. Drewseph's Quad-X.
2. Muffet's Star Puzzle.

Eitan's master helicopter cube (the puzzle is just delightful to turn)

Drew's starminx III

Gah! Why couldn't eitan release his Master Helicopter Cube V2 1 day earlier. So many choices, I can think of at least 5 five that I'd be happy to see win.

I guess these are my final votes:
pirsquared's Master Helicopter Cube V2
Drewseph's Starminx III

There's been so many great puzzles this month, picking only two was really hard, but my votes go to:

pirsquared's Master Helicopter Cube V2
TomZ's Helicopter Skewb

Juanan didn't make a Minimal Twist, he was just metioning that he saw it on a shop and was wondering if it was mass produced.

My votes are:

Timur's Trignis
Murilo's 5x5x1

Drew's Starminx III
Cubervietnam's Hex-2

Note: you may want to add my name for the pillowed 6x6; I designed the puzzle, but cooldayr bought, dyed, assembled, and stickered it.

Quad x and helicopter skewb.

Also my cross cube should be removed from the list. It is still a work in progress and its thread is in puzzle building and modding. Along with that, can't past winners not win?

1) pirsquared's Master Helicopter Cube V2
2) gingervergo's The Astrominx

1) Quad-X
2) Master Helicopter Cube v2

- Greg

Please delete #430 which was made by me but isn't new.
I vote for:
Steryne's Lotus II
Drewseph's Quad-X

TomZ's helicopter skewb
Chino's megaRD

1. Drewseph's Quad-X
2. gingervergo's The Astrominx

A top 2 is just too hard! close runner-ups were:

pirsquared's Master Helicopter Cube V2
Drewseph's Starminx III
Justin's Bauspiel Tower
TomZ's Helicopter Skewb

The Quad-X was definite, but I wasn't quite sure if I would pick the master helicopter or the astrominx, and I guess my Gelatinbrain 'nostalgia' made me choose the astrominx. I'm sorry Eitan, but at least you already have plenty of votes .

So your puzzle isn't complete? That's new to me.

What makes you say that? Awesomeness is redundant. You can only not vote for the same builder twice in a month.


These are 2 different puzzles, made by 2 different people individually. Therefore, only one of the builders' names can be up. You'll have to chose whose Helicopter Skewb.


Regarding those of you who also pointed out errors, fixed.

very difficult choice!
1. Trignis
2. StarMinx III

more favorits: Quad-X, Master Helicopter Cube, Helicopter Skewb, Void Floppy, Fully Functional Fused 3x3x2

This is an awesome list! August has been a great month

My votes:

Starminx III - Drewseph
Astrominx - gingervergo

pirsquared's master helicopter cube

gingervirgo's Astrominx

Pirsquared's Master Helicopter Cube

Drew's Quad X

Also worth mentioning: Gingervergo's Astrominx, Drew's Starminx III, RyanZ's (and puzzlemaster6262) Fully Functional Fused 3x3x2 and Andreas for making so many new puzzles!!!

- Drewseph's Quad-X

- pirsquared's Groove Cube

RyanZ deserves all credit for his puzzle. I was not involved and had no idea he was making it.

Timur's Trignis - I love its design!
pirsquared's Master Helicopter Cube V2 - Just beautiful in every aspect.

Astrominx
Lotus II

For some reason, I can't cut and paste, so I have retyped this underneath:

January: Jason Smith (cornered/Circo Radiolarian tie)
February: Aleh (circle minx)
March: Judochiou625 (V7Tetrahedron)
April: Justin (dymaximinx)
May: Grigr (Fluffy Cube)
June: TomZ (Curvy Copter II)
July: (forgot, to be edited)
August: PuzzleMaster6262 and Rentlix (the Creature)

These 8 people cannot take another month this year. This is to insure that 12 different minds win a year for the puzzle of the month competitions.

I honestly don't think it's fair to announce that now- in past months some votes have gone to previous winners. It isn't fair to change the rules, and it is also not fair to take out votes of people simply because you failed to announce the winners. I learned now, months into these people winning, that every time I voted for any of these people, my vote was trashed. I've voted multiple times when I shouldn't have been able to, yet you haven't recounted the votes. So did Katten, PM6262, and Steveo. In past months, PM6262, WWWMWWW, Tony Fisher, kuBer, Katten, Andreas Nortmann, and mr bang had their votes disabled. If you can tell all of these people that you've delibrately taken their votes out without warning them or advising them to change them, simply due to your failure to make a rule clear, you should not be the one to count the votes.

Pretend PuzzleMaker001 makes a puzzle, one so good it wins the month. Next month, PuzzleMaker001 makes another puzzle, which everyone votes for, and second votes have this turnout: PuzzleMaker002 gets 2/3 of votes and PuzzleMaker003 gets 1/3 of votes. Who wins? Lets see here:
1/3-Least votes
2/3-Runner-up- This won by your logic
3/3-Most votes

Now in month 3, these 3 people are the only ones who get votes. Imagine:
50% for PM001
50%-1 for PM002
1 vote for PM003

Why did the votes turn out like this? Because winners of previous months consistently compete for the top, and these top people tend to consistently create genius inventions. However, one lucky other takes just 1 vote, and wins. The last-place person wins. But why? Because the other voters continued to vote for the winners, as they never were told who they could not vote for. In other words:
1 vote for PM003
100%-1 votes disabled.

How fair is it to disable a vote? If you are to tell us not to vote for previous winners, please:
A- Announce this in advance so everyone is aware of the rules. It's not fair to change the rules on those of us who cast dead votes unknowingly.
B- Announce who we can't vote for, because otherwise we won't know if we just cast dead votes.
C- Keep up with elections. It hurts to say you simply forgot who won a PoM. For all we know, I could have just thrown out both of my votes in vain, because you failed to post anywhere publically until AFTER voting started... 8 months after the year started.

You messed up the months, too. Creature won July. August voting just started.

You can't disable my vote for Justin because you didn't announce who won those months. If so, I disable your vote for yourself. Why? According to last month:

Yes, you have valid points. I have not made this clear enough. I will go with your version of the rule, you can't vote for the same user in the same month.

Steryne did post these rules when puzzle of the month started.

I think it is fair to have a different winner every month. For puzzle of the year, all puzzles of the year that did not win first or second place should be voted on. The top 6 should then be added to the 24 others for the final voting.

Then can you explain these?



Both of these votes are violations and therefore dead votes. Unless you mean Namegoeswhere's Helicopter Skewb. In that case, you still did cast a dead vote before.

I think this discussion should be moved to a new topic.

As for the helicopter skewb, I want whichever version with the most votes to get my vote aswell. Ie, if TomZ's has more votes, my vote is for his.

This is in no way fair. You must specify the maker. As you are supporting the no-repeats rule, you may only go with Namegoeswhere as your vote. Until you specify, your vote doesn't count. After all, you haven't cast a vote until you say who you are voting for.

Oskar's Anisotropic Cube
Garrett's 2x3x4

Totally agreed! I can vote this month if and only if
there are at least five options. Voting for two is just unfair...
(that is, the 1st "voted puzzle" gets five points, 2nd get four,
3rd gets 3, 4th gets two points, and 5th gets one point - quite fair
and more "distributive" method, isn't it?)

And because of this, this month, I am on a "voting-strike"!!!
(it is a common thing in Greece)




Pantazis


PS. Joking aside, the puzzle of the month voting, is an outstanding
inititiave and it requires a lot of work. I give my full support and respect
to everyone involved in this. But please forgive me for not being
flexible this time, as you must all admit, there are too many absolutely
GREAT puzzles this month, and two votes is simply not enough!