Puzzles of November 2010

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

There's a chance I might not be able to post this tomorrow so I'll do it now instead.

Wow is all I have to say. I don't have any idea what on earth I was thinking when I volunteered to do this... Well, there's one month to go, and it's more exciting to compile these lists than it sounds.

Voting will be the new way set up last time:

Gold: your vote (worth 3 points)
Silver: your vote (worth 2 points)
Bronze: your vote (worth 1 point)

Also, please point out typos and puzzles that I missed because they were in the wrong forum, because I browsed this forum far less than I hoped to (busy on the NaNoWriMo).

When Drew started the whole 'breaking the universe' thing, that was nothing compared to some of the feats this month. Some puzzles aren't as phenomenal but are part of series- this month had the most of any others so far! And those puzzles that aren't universe-breaking but are still very creative stand out as well. This month has almost set the record for the most productive month in numbers, too. Well, enough rambling. Here's the list:

584- Nov 01- RubixFreakGreg's Terrorminx (Sticker Mod)
585- Nov 01- TomZ's Mini Starminx
586- Nov 01- Justin's Sweet Heart
587- Nov 02- Incredible's X-Block
588- Nov 04- Apollo's Bump-2
589- Nov 04- Clauswe's All-in-One Cube
590- Nov 04- Timur's Scalium
591- Nov 05- Quicksolver's Bratwurstminx
592- Nov 05- pirsquared's Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron
593- Nov 06- Ortwin's Expert 2x2x2 Cube
594- Nov 06- Oskar's Geared Mixup
595- Nov 06- Chino's PyraUFO
596- Nov 07- Traiphum's HexaPhobic
597- Nov 08- SmaZ's SmaZ Cube: China Series
598- Nov 09- Apollo's Distorted Dodecahedron
599- Nov 10- Incredible's Bicolor Stellated Dodecahedron
600- Nov 12- Oskar's Plug and Play
601- Nov 12- Oskar's Hollow Skewb
602- Nov 12- Oskar's Hollow Diamond
603- Nov 15- Apollo's Square-2 Hexagonal Prism
604- Nov 15- Apollo's Junior Hexagonal Prism
605- Nov 15- blackout's 4x4x4 Crazy Ball
606- Nov 15- blackout's Ball in a Cube
607- Nov 15- Andreas Nortmann's Bandaged Skewb 121
608- Nov 15- Andreas Nortmann's Bandaged Skewb 800120
609- Nov 15- Andreas Nortmann's Bandaged Skewb 10C4
610- Nov 15- Andreas Nortmann's Bandaged Skewb 21840
611- Nov 15- Andreas Nortmann's Bandaged Skewb 189
612- Nov 15- Andreas Nortmann's Bandaged Skewb 12210
613- Nov 15- Andreas Nortmann's Bandaged Skewb 303804
614- Nov 16- Andreas Nortmann's SharpCorners8800101000 Truncated Stretchex
615- Nov 16- Andreas Nortmann's SharpCorners8800101000 Stretchex
616- Nov 17- Sharon's and Muffet's Icosacopter
617- Nov 17- Andreas Nortmann's Extended UltimateSkewb F800501E003C00000207040E02801F - AlmostAntiprism
618- Nov 17- Timur's Master Face-Turning Octahedron
619- Nov 18- Traiphum's 2x2x2 Minimorphix
620- Nov 18- PuzzlerMaster6262's Fully Functional Siamese 3x3x3
621- Nov 18- Iaroslavski's Chess Cube
622- Nov 19- Steryne's Lotus I
623- Nov 19- mizzle576's X-Block
624- Nov 20- Oliver Nagy's Shape of Earth Series (Sticker Mod)
625- Nov 20- Sharon's Bump Hexagonal Dipyramid
626- Nov 20- RubixFreakGreg's Mini Chopper
627- Nov 20- Oskar's Mixup 2x3x3
628- Nov 21- Traiphum's Dinomorphix
629- Nov 21- Andreas Nortmann's ExtendedUltimateSkewb
630- Nov 22- Andreas Nortmann's The Bandaged 4x4x4 (1x3x4)
631- Nov 22- Apollo's Junior Trigonal Prism
632- Nov 23- SmaZ's Bright Marco Square-One
633- Nov 23- Grigr's Arbuz Cube (Watermelon Cube) (Sticker Mod)
634- Nov 23- RFLo9Puzzles' MorningStarMinx
635- Nov 25- Andreas Nortmann's Octahedral Skewb Face Deletion 000 111; Trigonal Trapezohedron
636- Nov 25- Andreas Nortmann's Octahedral Skewb Face Deletion 000 001 010 011; Square pyramid
637- Nov 25- Andreas Nortmann's Octahedral Skewb Face Deletion 000 001 110 111; Rhombic Prism
638- Nov 25- Andreas Nortmann's Octahedral Skewb Face Deletion 001 010 100 011 101 110; Hexagonal Prism
639- Nov 25- Andreas Nortmann's Octahedral Skewb Triagonal Dipyramid
640- Nov 26- DLitwin's Elemental: Argon
641- Nov 26- TomZ's 3x3x3 + Rainbow Cube
642- Nov 26- Oskar's Slidey 2x2x2
643- Nov 26- Incredible's Petaminx
644- Nov 27- eye2eye2's Half Skewb Ultimate (Sticker Mod)
645- Nov 28- Daqing Bao's 8-Axis Cuboctahedron
646- Nov 29- Andreas Nortmann's BuzzSawCube
647- Nov 29- Ortwin's 3-Colours 3x3x3 Super Void Cube (Sticker Mod)
648- Nov 30- Cooldayr's and Dannyb21892's 8x8x8
649- Nov 30- pirsquared's Edge-Turning Octahedron
650- Nov 30- Ortwin's Tangram Cube Series (Sticker Mod)

And with that, you lost the game.

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

Gold: 3x3x3 + Rainbow Cube
Silver: Petaminx
Bronze: 8x8x8

Because even if it's not new dimensions, it's still phenomenal.

dannyb21892 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:30 pm **Location:** NYC

gold: icosacopter
silver: hexaphobic (i love morphixes and this one was beautiful

)
bronze: 3x3x3+rainbow cube

You said to point out typos; you misspelled cooldayr for the 8x8x8 :wink:

NType3 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:48 am

Gold: Icosacopter
Silver: EDIT: Edge-turning Octahedron
Bronze: Petaminx (sorry, sky! bad month to make puzzles :lol:

)

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

Gold: Icosacopter
Bronze:Mini Starminx, Scalium, Geared Mixup

I chose the wrong month to finish my fully functional Siamese 3x3x3. It was tempting to just choose 6 bronze winners! :lol:

pirsquared · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:37 am

Gold: Sharon's and Muffet's Icosacopter
Silver: Oskar's Geared Mixup Cube
Bronze: TomZ's 3x3+Rainbow Cube

That was really really really hard to decide on.

-π (Eitan)

gingervergo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:23 pm

Gold: Sharon's and Muffet's Icosacopter
Silver: TomZ's 3x3+Rainbow Cube
Bronze: Oskar's Geared Mixup Cube

Luke · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:04 am

Gold: Icosacopter
Silver: Face Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron
Bronze: Mini Starminx

A good month for new puzzles.

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:14 am

It is getting harder and harder to pick up puzzles, so many incredible designs, so little votes! LOL

Gold: DLitwin's Elemental: Argon (Finally! I get to vote for one of the best concepts of the past years!)
Silver: Sharon's and Muffet's Icosacopter (Such a sublime puzzle with a catchy name!).
Bronze: pirsquared's Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron (As I said: "Δ"!!!!)

Again, MANY MANY thanks to all the guys who build all those magnificent puzzles, as well as
all those who organise this voting. Regardless if anyone wins or not, it is such a wonderful way
to present all the available puzzles of the month in such an organised format.

Pantazis

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

Gold: Pirsquared's Edge-Turning Octahedron
Silver: Pirsquared's Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron
Bronze: Apollo's Square-2 Hexagonal Prism

-Sharon-

Sigurd · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:31 am

gold icosacopter
silver edge turn octahedron
bronze mini starminx

Door · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:11 am

kastellorizo wrote:

It is getting harder and harder to pick up puzzles, so many incredible designs, so little votes! LOL

100% agree!

I choose...
Gold: Icosacopter
Silver: Mini Starminx
Bronze: PyraUFO

-Mark-

will_57 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:41 am

I vote:
Gold: Geared Mixup
Solver: Face Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron
Bronze: Icosacopter

gabrielmpf · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:44 am

My Choices:

Gold - Andreas Nortmann's BuzzSawCube
Silver - Oskar's Geared Mixup
Bronze - Traiphum's Minimorphix 2x2

NType3 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:48 am

Hey Rentlix, 2 questions:

1) WHY did you have to make me lose the game??
2) Can we each have more votes? I think votes should be proportional to the number of original puzzles, but not equal to the num. of originals. A few less

MuadDib · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:12 pm

My vote:

Gold: Icosacopter
Silver: Edge-Turning Octahedron
Bronze: Hexaphobic

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:52 am

Following remarks:
#635 and #640 are the same
#629 bears the name Rhombohedron
#615 is Stretchex
#614 is Truncated Stretchex

Gold: Icosacopter
Silver: Edge-Turning Octahedron (Eitan)
Bronze: First Fully Functional Siamese 3x3x3 V1
I like classification challenges an puzzle which fill some slots.

Katja · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:11 am

Gold: Icosacopter
Silver: Mini Starminx
Bronze: Edge-Turning Octahedron

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:38 pm

Gold: Icosacopter
Silver: Crazy 4x4 ball
Bronze: Mini Chopper

JLO · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:44 pm

Gold: Mini Starminx
Silver: Icosacopter
Bronze: 8x8x8 and FF Siamese 3x3's

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

Gold: SmaZ's China Series Cube
Silver: Eitan's Edge-Turning Octahedron
Bronze: Traiphum's Hexaphobic

Alex

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

JLO wrote:

Gold: Mini Starminx
Silver: Icosacopter
Bronze: 8x8x8 and FF Siamese 3x3's

You can only cast 6 points, not seven.

NType3 wrote:

2) Can we each have more votes? I think votes should be proportional to the number of original puzzles, but not equal to the num. of originals. A few less

You may not this time, but for next year that may be something to consider. I agree that it is very difficult to decide on which puzzle to vote for- there are too many amazing ones. I'm not changing the rules since people have already voted. Keep in mind- only one puzzle can be Puzzle of 2010. That will be a tough decision.

PS: Typos fixed!

JLO · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:44 pm

Oh alright.
8x8x8 over the ff siamese because i dont know what the incredible ff siamese mech is :3

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

I see you other members online! Cast your votes for your favorites and help get other members to do it to.

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

Rentlix wrote:

600- Nov 12- Oskar's Plug and Play
601- Nov 12- Oskar's Plug and Play (Additional Puzzle)
602- Nov 12- Oskar's Plug and Play (Additional Puzzle)

Note that I named the two individual puzzles "Hollow Skewb" and "Hollow Diamond". Their combination is "Plug and Play".

Oskar

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

Oskar wrote:

Rentlix wrote:

600- Nov 12- Oskar's Plug and Play
601- Nov 12- Oskar's Plug and Play (Additional Puzzle)
602- Nov 12- Oskar's Plug and Play (Additional Puzzle)

Note that I named the two individual puzzles "Hollow Skewb" and "Hollow Diamond". Their combination is "Plug and Play".

Oskar

Fixed!

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:21 am

Oskar wrote:

Their combination is Plug and Play.

Oskar

By the way Oskar, I believe that as one puzzle, many would agree that the concept
being "many in one" is an excellent one. But by separating it into smaller parts/puzzles,
it resulted into a lot of isolated puzzles, each of which is similar to ones we already know
from the past (there are differences, but not too striking to differentiate each of them).
It kind of looks as if 600 is the core, and 601 & 602 are the two types of external pieces.

Had it been clearly listed as a "puzzle-transformer" (instead of three different puzzles,
I would have certainly voted for it!

Pantazis

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

very hard choice
Gold: Timur's Master Face-Turning Octahedron and PuzzlerMaster6262's Fully Functional Siamese 3x3x3
Silver: TomZ's 3x3x3 + Rainbow Cube and blackout's Ball in a Cube
Bronze: Sharon's and Muffet's Icosacopter, pirsquared's Edge-Turning Octahedron and pirsquared's Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron

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

grigr wrote:

very hard choice
Gold: Timur's Master Face-Turning Octahedron and PuzzlerMaster6262's Fully Functional Siamese 3x3x3
Silver: TomZ's 3x3x3 + Rainbow Cube and blackout's Ball in a Cube
Bronze: Sharon's and Muffet's Icosacopter, pirsquared's Edge-Turning Octahedron and pirsquared's Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron

Hard choice, I know, but you'll have to narrow it down some more. Only one gold, one silver, and one bronze.

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

ok
Gold: Timur's Master Face-Turning Octahedron
Silver: PuzzlerMaster6262's Fully Functional Siamese 3x3x3
Bronze: TomZ's 3x3x3 + Rainbow Cube

Stefan Schwalbe · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:01 pm

gold: Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron
silver: TomZ's 3x3x3 + Rainbow Cube
bronze: SMAZ cube : china series

Steryne · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:56 am

Gold crazy 444 ball
Silver pi's FTDIT
Bronze geared mixup cube

traiphum · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:54 am

without my puzzles, I like.

Gold : Chino's PyraUFO, Apollo's Square-2 Hexagonal Prism, SmaZ's China Series >> art work of craftsmanship
Silver : TomZ's 3x3x3 + Rainbow Cube, pirsquared's Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron >>very created
Bronze : blackout's 4x4x4 Crazy Ball >>simple but nice

bobthegiraffemonkey · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:26 am

gold: Icosacopter
silver: Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron
bronze: Edge-Turning Octahedron

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

Voting will end on December 31.

Sharon

GuiltyBystander · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:40 pm

Gold: 592- Nov 05- pirsquared's Face-Turning Deltoidal Icositetrahedron
Silver: 616- Nov 17- Sharon's and Muffet's Icosacopter
Bronze: 649- Nov 30- pirsquared's Edge-Turning Octahedron

Simplexity4 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:46 pm

Gold -- 586- Nov 01- Justin's Sweet Heart
Silver -- 628- Nov 21- Traiphum's Dinomorphix
Bronze -- 631- Nov 22- Apollo's Junior Trigonal Prism

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