Puzzles of January 2012

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

The trend stays low for new puzzle count. Gold, Silver, Bronze votes like before. I don't have much else to add.
EDIT: Actually, I do. There were requests for handmade and computer-aided designed categories. What do you think of this?

001- Jan 02- Cubervietnam's Professor Axis Cube
002- Jan 02- Timur's Master Gear Pyraminx
003- Jan 02- SmaZ's SMAZ CLOCK: Back to SQ
004- Jan 02- Cubedude76's Professor's Hexagonal Prism
005- Jan 04- HeX's Axises Axis Cube/Double Axis Cube
006- Jan 06- RubixFreakGreg's Giant Magic
007- Jan 06- RubixFreakGreg's Micro Prisminx
008- Jan 06- RubixFreakGreg's Micro Square-1
009- Jan 06- RubixFreakGreg's DeCETH
010- Jan 07- Heiowge's Metallic Borg 2x2x2
011- Jan 07- RubixFreakGreg's Starminx III
012- Jan 07- JohnnyLuV's Reach-Out Cube
013- Jan 08- Oskar's and Bram's Jumble Prism
014- Jan 08- Burgo's Wall Minx
015- Jan 10- RubixFreakGreg's Micro Octagonal Domino
016- Jan 11- A J's Camouflage 3x3x3
017- Jan 11- David Pitcher's Fun Block Puzzle
018- Jan 12- Oskar's Cubes on a Disk
019- Jan 14- Oskar's Cube Twister
020- Jan 15- wwwmwww's Doctor Cube
021- Jan 16- David Pitcher's Star of David
022- Jan 16- DDR's Jade Puzzle
023- Jan 17- Yaroslavskiy's SuperX (Dino 2x2x2)
024- Jan 19- aiisthebest's Dino Tetrahedron
025- Jan 19- aiisthebest's Dibow
026- Jan 20- aiisthebest's Railway Cube
027- Jan 25- RubixFreakGreg's Helimate
028- Jan 25- pianocubing's Carrry a 3x3x3
029- Jan 27- HeX's 1x1x6 Dodecagonal Prism
030- Jan 28- Tony Fisher's Gear Tetraminx
031- Jan 30- RFLo9Puzzles' V-Cube 2 Hexagonal Dipyramid Not extended
032- Jan 30- RFLo9Puzzles' V-Cube 5 Hexagonal Dipyramid Coated

EDIT: Added Burgo's Wall Minx.

Benf207 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:11 am

Gold: Greg's Helimate
Silver: Timur's Master Gear Pyraminx
Bronze: David Pitcher's Star of David

Ben

Aether13 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:06 pm

Gold: Professor Hexagonal Prism.
Silver. Helimate
Bronze: Doctor Cube.

Sigurd · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:37 am

Gold: Greg's helimate
Silver: Greg's Deceth

Drake · **Joined:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:48 pm **Location:** Canada

Gold: Helimate.
Silver: Fun block.
Bronze: DeCETH.

gabrielmpf · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:02 am

Gold - David Pitcher's Star of David
Silver - cubervietnam's Professor Axis Cube
Bronze - heiowge's Metallic Borg 2x2

X-TownCuber · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:37 pm

Gold: Greg's helimate
Silver: Timur's master gear pyraminx
Bronze: Oskar and Tony's Cubes on a disc

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

G: Timur's Master Gear Pyraminx
S: Greg's Micro Square -1
B: Cubes on a Disk by OSKAR and TONY

HM: Greg's Helimate

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:04 pm

Gold: RubixFreakGreg's Helimate
Silver: Oskar's Cubes on a Disk
Bronze: Timur's Master Gear Pyraminx

Ender Delphiki wrote:

There were requests for handmade and computer-aided designed categories. What do you think of this?

Yes. I want two seperate rankings. Therefore I vote for:

Handmade puzzles:
Gold: DDR's Jade Puzzle
Silver: JohnnyLuV's
Bronze: HeX's Axises Axis Cube/Double Axis Cube

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

Ender Delphiki wrote:

There were requests for handmade and computer-aided designed categories. What do you think of this?

Then you may vote for Cubes on a Disk by OSKAR & TONY twice, as it is a hybrid.
-The disk parts were 3D printed by Shapeways
-The cube parts were hand cast by Tony
(and all parts were designed by me, and assembled by Tony)

Oskar

DinoBen · **Joined:** Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:16 pm

Gold: Professor's Hexagonal Prism
Silver: Helimate
Bronze: DeCETH

Can't believe some people forgot Professor's Hexagonal Prism?
If there was a 4th place it would be cubes on a disk

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

Oskar wrote:

Ender Delphiki wrote:

There were requests for handmade and computer-aided designed categories. What do you think of this?

Then you may vote for Cubes on a Disk by OSKAR & TONY twice, as it is a hybrid.
-The disk parts were 3D printed by Shapeways
-The cube parts were hand cast by Tony
(and all parts were designed by me, and assembled by Tony)

Oskar

That is incorrect. Assembly and casting don't change the fact that the puzzle was designed specially in CAD software for the deliberate purpose of this exact puzzle. The call between handmade and otherwise is, at least to my knowledge, that you must physically construct the parts from existing other parts or using physical craftmanship. That you printed any parts means you did not construct the puzzle with your own craftmanship or from existing other puzzles. However, you did point out one of the main flaws that I do agree with. It's difficult to make a call. I don't think it would affect anything seeing the decreasing number of puzzles

Keegan · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:59 pm

Gold: Helimate
Silver: DeCETH
Bronze: Master Gear Pyraminx

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

Ender Delphiki wrote:

Oskar wrote:

Ender Delphiki wrote:

There were requests for handmade and computer-aided designed categories. What do you think of this?

Then you may vote for Cubes on a Disk by OSKAR & TONY twice, as it is a hybrid.
-The disk parts were 3D printed by Shapeways
-The cube parts were hand cast by Tony
(and all parts were designed by me, and assembled by Tony)

Oskar

That is incorrect. Assembly and casting don't change the fact that the puzzle was designed specially in CAD software for the deliberate purpose of this exact puzzle. The call between handmade and otherwise is, at least to my knowledge, that you must physically construct the parts from existing other parts or using physical craftmanship. That you printed any parts means you did not construct the puzzle with your own craftmanship or from existing other puzzles. However, you did point out one of the main flaws that I do agree with. It's difficult to make a call. I don't think it would affect anything seeing the decreasing number of puzzles

I have to agree with this (shoots himself in foot). My original suggestion was-

1. 3d printed / cast from 3d prints
2. Hand made / cast but no printing involved

You could even split 2 into 2a and 2b. 2a being mods / transformations and 2b being Hand shaped / made parts and mechanism excluding springs and screws. Examples of these would be Daniel Urlings matchstick cube, Aleh's 4x4x4 and even my awful Triangular prism. Fully handmade twisty puzzles are rarely made.

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

Another odd exception would be to modify an existing Shapeways puzzle. It is 3-D printed, but not for the purpose of the mod, so if you hand-modify a shape-ways puzzle into a different puzzle, is that hand-done? Stickers is technically another odd exception but those never really receive any votes anyway.

RubiksMaster614 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:56 pm **Location:** Chicago,

Gold: Greg's Helimate
Silver: Oskar's Cube Twister
Bronze: Greg's DeCETH

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

3- Jumble Prism
2- Helimate
1- Master Gear Pyraminx

Steveo · **Joined:** Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:37 pm **Location:** Canada

Ender Delphiki wrote:

Another odd exception would be to modify an existing Shapeways puzzle. It is 3-D printed, but not for the purpose of the mod, so if you hand-modify a shape-ways puzzle into a different puzzle, is that hand-done?

I feel like it's pretty safe to say that we're not going to need to worry about that! :lol:

Thanks again for doing these lists!

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

Steveo wrote:

Ender Delphiki wrote:

Another odd exception would be to modify an existing Shapeways puzzle. It is 3-D printed, but not for the purpose of the mod, so if you hand-modify a shape-ways puzzle into a different puzzle, is that hand-done?

I feel like it's pretty safe to say that we're not going to need to worry about that! :lol:

Don't be so sure. I have certainly purchased a few in the past for projects which for some reason or other got cancelled.

JohnnyLuV · **Joined:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:02 pm **Location:** Belgium

Just to say, I'm so proud to see my Reach-out cube in this list!!!!

Gold: David Pitcher's Star of David
Silver: Heiowge's Metallic Borg 2x2x2
Bronze: David Pitcher's Fun Block Puzzle (I like it a lot for being a brand new, good looking, Simple puzzle. It doesn't always have to be "a hard challenge" to be great 8-)

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Dreiser · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 7:23 am **Location:** CH

Gold: Greg's Helimate
Silver: DDR's Jade Puzzle
Bronze: RFLo9Puzzles' V-Cube 5 Hexagonal Dipyramid Coated

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