This is some "Twisty Puzzles" part of my collection. My full collection has it's own website "Extremely Puzzing" that can be found via: http://puzzles.schwandtner.info
2X2X2
Monster High Cube
A merchandising cube for the fashion doll franchise "Monster High School".
Screw 2x2x2
Screw 2x2x2 is a simplified version of the Screw Cube
Simple Slide
A 1x2x2 that reveals its true functionality with a sliding mechanism.
3X3X3
Bandaged Cube
The first mass produced bandaged 3x3x3 with only one unbandaged piece.
Fused cube
A bandaged cube reimplementing one half of the Fused Cubes.
Latch Cube
A 3x3x3 with innovatively restricted movements.
Orbit Cube
A 3x3x3 with four circles on each face. These rotate with each turn in the same direction.
Two-Faced Cube
A 3x3x3 with stickers covered with lenticular lenses. Whether it looks solved depends on the view angle.
Void Cube
A 3x3x3 with a hole through the center.
3X3X3 (PICTURE)
Keyboard 3x3x3 Cube
A standard 3x3x3 with keyboard keys attached. It is available in different colours. A bandaged version also exists.
4X4X4
211x211x4
A bandaged 4x4x4 variation that defies naming conventions.
2x3x4 (bandaged 4x4x4)
A bandaged 4x4x4 variation that functions exactly like the Wall Cube, but is solved in a slightly different configuration.
Bandaged Revenge #3
Appears to have some mechanical similarity to the Square-1. Also very similar to the Slim Tower cuboid (2x2x3), only with a middle slice bandaged.
Crazy 4x4x4 I
The first 4x4x4 with circles. It exposes the theoretical inner 2x2x2.
Crazy 4x4x4 II
The next logical step after the Crazy 4x4x4. A very clever implementation of the Super Crazy 4x4x4.
Crazy 4x4x4 III
The third 4x4x4 with circles on all six sides. The circles are larger as in the first two variants.
Rubik's Revenge (ITC)
Follow up to the Rubik's cube, as shown by its name.
Produced in 1982 and 1983 by Ideal Toy Corporation in Korea, Macau and Hong Kong.
Super 4x4x4
A sticker variant of the 4x4x4. Compared with the traditional stickering scheme the face pieces are distinguishable.
5X5X5
6X6X6 & UP
Mini 6x6x6
A small 6x6x6 with a mechanisms that does not infringe ther Verdes patent but the package itself claims it is not suitable for speedsolving.
V-Cube 6
The first mass produced 6x6x6. A six layered cube.
V-Cube 7
The first 7x7x7. A seven layered cube.
CUBE (SHAPE PRESERVING)
4-Leaf-Clover Cube
An edge turning cube which closest relative is a more complex hybrid puzzle that came before it.
4x4x4 Curvy Dino
A corner turning cube very similar to the Curvy Mosaic Cube but two additional pieces.
Breeze Cube
Also known as Curvy Dino Cube. A Compy Cube variation with wavy cuts.
Breeze Cube
Also known as Curvy Dino Cube. A Compy Cube variation with wavy cuts.
Clover 2x2x2
A Triakis Tetrahedron with cuts inspired by the clover puzzles. Unlike other clover-puzzles the axis system is doctrinaire.
Cubic 3x3x5
A 3x3x5 in shape of a hexahedron. This allows some moves a true 3x3x5 cuboid would not allow.
Cubic 3x3x9 I
The logic successor of the cubic 3x3x7. A cuboid out of a series of cubes that behave like a bandaged 9x9x9.
Cubic 3x3x9 II
The cousin of Cubic 3x3x9. All of its faces are split up. A cuboid out of a series of cubes that behave like a bandaged 9x9x9.
Curvy Copter
A variation on the Helicopter Cube that uses curved cuts to reveal the otherwise hidden centerpieces.
Curvy Copter Extreme
A cube with hybrid axis system combining the turns of the skewb and a shallow curvy copter.
Dino Skewb
A puzzle which allows the moves of a Dino Cube and a Skewb.
Dual 3x3x3
Two 3x3x3s in one puzzle with some sides of both parts connected. Five different versions were produced.
Elite Skewb
The first corner turning hexahedron with 3 cuts per axis.
F-Skewb
F-Skewb = Offset Skewb + 4 Dino cuts
Fadi Cube
A twisty puzzle cube that turns around its corners. It has five layers per throughgoing axes.
Grilles Cube II
A cube that allows face turns and corner turns in two depths.
HeliO Cube
A Helicopter Cube with a cage as visible core.
Honey Copter
A contour cut variant of Oskar's Redi Cube. This time the contours of the piece's form heart-like shapes.
Master Skewb
An incredible creation by Katsuhiko Okamoto. A very rare puzzle for many years it became mass produced in 2011.
Polaris Cube
A Skewb with eight additional corners that have to placed in midturn.
Redi Cube
A twisty puzzle cube that turns around its corners. A faceless Compy Cube.
Rex Cube
A corner turning hexahedron. Very similar to the MasterSkewb but without its corners.
Roadblock I
A cubic 3x3x9 with some traditional corner pieces inserted. A puzzle out of a series of cubes that behave like a bandaged 9x9x9.
Skewb
The deepcut corner turning cube.
Skewby Copter Plus
A hybrid of the Skewb and the Curvy Copter Plus. It adds one level of unbandaging to an already complex hybrid puzzle.
Super X
The first puzzle with a hybrid axis system. This combines face turning and corner turning hexahedron in one puzzle.
Super X
The first puzzle with a hybrid axis system. This combines face turning and corner turning hexahedron in one puzzle.
Venom Cube
A cube with hybrid axis system (face turning cube and edge turning cube) with just one piece type and even that is as heavily reduced as possible.
WitEden Cubic 3x3x7
Another cubic 3x3x7. all edges are split up. A puzzle out of a series of cubes that behave like a bandaged 9x9x9.
XO Cube
A Dino Cube with a cage as visible core.
CUBE (SHAPE CHANGING)
3x3x3 Mixup Plus Cube
A mass produced Mixup Cube. Compared with the "traditional" Mixup Cube this one has twice the pieces in each ring.
3x3x3 Mixup Plus Cube
A mass produced Mixup Cube. Compared with the "traditional" Mixup Cube this one has twice the pieces in each ring.
4+4 corners cube
An enhanced version of the "4 corners cube". A puzzle with 16 possible turns in two different sets.
Axis Cube
A 3x3x3 with the cutting planes rotated by 60� around a corner.
BaiNiaoChaoFeng Cube
A mass produced Fisher cube with curvy cuts. Sold stickerless in two different configurations with three colours each.
Bump Cube
The Bump Cube is a simple 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, but with an interesting twist. It spawned a whole series of puzzles and created a verb of its own.
Square-2
A modified Square-1 where the corners are split into two pieces. A non-bandaged puzzle unlike the original.
Twins cube
A Skewby Copter Plus with an additional set of cuts on the same axis system.
CUBOID
1x1x4
A stupid cuboid built just for the sake of completeness.
1x2x2
It is not a boob cube but a boob can solve this one too.
1x2x3
A very simplistic cuboid but a must for completionists.
2x2x4
Unlike the bandaged 4x4x4, all sixteen of these "cubies" are actual cubes.
2x2x4
Unlike the bandaged 4x4x4, all sixteen of these "cubies" are actual cubes.
3x3x17 I
A cubic 3x3x9 with eight additional layers on top and bottom.
3x3x4 (cube4You)
Not the first fully functional 3x3x4 but the first mass produced.
3x3x4 (cube4You)
Not the first fully functional 3x3x4 but the first mass produced.
4x5x6
The (fully functional) logical next step after 1x2x3, 2x3x4 and 3x4x5 cuboids.
Bubbloid112
A corner turning cuboid designed to be a puzzle with a multi-origin-core. The second implementation of this concept.
Bubbloid122
A Compy Cube redesigned to be a puzzle with a multi-origin-core.
Container
The Container is a shape variant of a Skewb sketched by Jean-Claude Constantin, invented by Tony Fisher and mass produced 20 years later.
Crazy 2x2x4
A 2x2x4 with circles on the not-extended sides.
Crazy 2x3x3
A 3x3x4 with two layers removed but not hidden.
Floppy 2x3x3
A twisty puzzle with corners that hang in the air.
Floppy Blocks
The concept of the Bump Cube (aka Mirror Blocks) combined with the Floppy Cube.
Scramble (Super Floppy) Cube
An enhanced version of the Floppy Cube from the same inventor. A floppy cube where you can turn the faces 90 degrees.
Scramble (Super Floppy) Cube
An enhanced version of the Floppy Cube from the same inventor. A floppy cube where you can turn the faces 90 degrees.
Special 2x2x3
Looks like a 2x2x3 but it is an enhanced hexagonal prism.
Trick Domino
A 2x3x3 treated like a windmill cube. Two identical looking but different versions exist.
OCTAHEDRON
Axis Octahedron
A face turning octahedron newly designed with the axis system rotated by 45� inside the solid.
Clover Octahedron Fragmentation
The concept of the Trifurcation cube applied to an octahedron without unbandaging. This one comes with a number of additional cuts.
Dayan Corner Octahedron
Modern mass produced version of the "Magic Octahedron" from the eighties. Sold in differently coloured versions.
Ghost Octahedron
The immediate follow-up of the Axis octahedron. After axising a face turning octahedron he ghosted it.
Hybrid Octahedron
An octahedron with two cuts per corner turning axis and two cuts per face turning axis.
Leaf Octahedron
A hybrid puzzles combining a Curvy Copter Octahedron with a 2x2x2.
Lolo's octahedron
A 2x2x2 with an additional layer on each side. It behaves like a subset of a 4x4x4.
Octaminx
A fairly accessible custom shape variant of the Pyraminx.
Skewb Diamond
Meffert's build-up and truncation of a Skewb into an octahedron.
Skewb Diamond
Meffert's build-up and truncation of a Skewb into an octahedron.
Trajber's Octahedron
Of this 3x3x3-variant only few examples were produced and sold in the eighties.
Trajber's Octahedron
Of this 3x3x3-variant only few examples were produced and sold in the eighties.
OTHER EIGHT-SIDED
DODECAHEDRON
Dino Dodecahedron
The easiest corner turning dodecahedron. The name is taken from its hexahedral cousin.
Holey Megaminx
The Holey Megaminx or Void Megaminx - inspired by the Void Cube this is a megaminx without centres.
Kilominx
The corners only megaminx in dodecahedral shape which went into mass production.
Megaminx
Meffert's version from 1982 with six colours.
Megaminx (1999)
This is a newer version of the Megaminx, published by Meffert, with tiles and 12 distinct colours.
Pyraminx Crystal
Essentially a deeper cut megaminx at heart, the Pyraminx crystal adds a new twist to the classic puzzle.
Rediminx
A mass produced Dino dodecahedron with spherical cuts.
Teraminx
A three layered Megaminx. One of the most famous custom twisty puzzles before mass production started.
RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON
Rua
A face turning rhombic dodecahedron with cuts to make the number of pieces minimal.
FOUR
Crystal Pyraminx
A special edition of the Pyraminx sold for the 50th anniversary of the original puzzle.
Jing's Pyraminx
The Jing's pyraminx was created by Adam Cowen and was produced by Uwe Meffert in 2009. It is a pillowed Halpern-Meier pyramid, based on the skewb mechanism.
Master Pyraminx
An incredible creation by Katsuhiko Okamoto which later made it into a mass production.
FIVE
Jumble Prism
An idea of Bram Cohen finally comes to life after 5 years.
RotoPrism 2
A modified shape with a lower-order slice pattern for the Fracture-6.
SEVEN
FOURTEEN
DaYan Gem 10
Looks like Gem I but has a hybrid axis system with one additional type of turn.
DaYan Gem 9
An edge turning hexahedron in shape of a truncated octahedron and a 3x3 pattern on the square sides.
DaYan Gem I
An edge turning hexahedron transformed into the shape of a truncated octahedron which is an archimedean solid.
DaYan Gem IV
The first mass produced face turning octahedron with three cuts per axis although it does not have the octahedrons shape.
DaYan Gem V
A mass produced F-Skewb in shape of a biscribed truncated octahedron.
Dayan Jewel
Mass produced remake of the original Magic Jewel.
Rainbow Cube
A beautiful (but simple) puzzle closely related to the Dino Cube!
THIRTY
Dayan Gem VI
A relative of the Wheel-of-Wisdom in shape of an Alternate Truncated triakis octahedron.
OTHER N-SIDED
Dino-Trunc
A rainbow cube truncated on all its 12 edges.
Evil Seed
A trihedron with two layers and three holes to show the internal mechanism.
Seed
A face turning trihedron.
PUCKS
Brainbow Puck
The puck puzzle with six colours in a rainbow pattern.
SPHERE
Dioctipoid
A spherical puzzle designed from scratch that behaves like a corner turning hexahedron.
K.O. Labyrinth
A maze combined with a traditional 3x3x3 in shape of a big sphere with hollow pieces. The package reads "The ultimate 3D Puzzle and maze"
Mach Magic Ball - Soccer
Solve all twelve hexes by matching up the three colours correctly. Came in at least five colour combinations.
Magical Ball
A puzzle which is solvingwise a subset of the megaminx but uses a completely different pull-and-turn-mechanism.
Minimal Twist
A skewb so minimalistic that it is impossible to be stickered.
CYLINDER
Cheese
Anthony Greenhill's 2-layered Cheese created from an UFO mechanism.
Dino Cylinder
A Dino Cube in cylindral shape with bright black plastic and very reduced stickers.
ROUND CONVEX SHAPES
Auzzle A2
Eight pieces in a puzzle resembling a Square-1. The orientations of the magnetic have to solved although being invisible.
Golden Egg
A skewb based puzzle invented by Tony Fisher and produced by Meffert's.
STAR
4D8
A 2x2x2 with tips on each piece. These tips are trivial but solving the whole puzzle is not.
Alexander's Star
A confusing twelve sided puzzle in a shape of a great dodecahedron, closely related to the Megaminx.
Jewel Octahedron
An edges only 3x3x3 in shape of a negatively stellated octahedron. It is the octahedral equivalent of the Alexander Star.
HEADS & OBJECTS
OTHER SHAPES
Platypus
Also called: Jackpot/Platypus/Pyrabix/NGP/Xtreme Puzzle.
Rubik's UFO
An attractive little puzzle, possibly related to the legendary Rubik's Cheeze.
Super Platypus
An enhanced version of the Q-Platypus. It has one additional layer for each cylinder.
Vulcano
A four layer puzzle originally named Trignis or Cross Pyraminx.
MOVING HOLE
Back Spin
A mix between the moving hole puzzles and the two-layer UFO puzzles.
Codebreaker
A moving hole puzzle where you can can twist the 4 corner tiles all at once.
Color Puzzler
This large, hex-shaped, 6x6 Whip-It type puzzle is about 120 mm tall.
Crossteaser
Rotate colour wheels into the open space to move them.
Inversion
A sliding blocks puzzle with only edges and corners.
Lockout
A puzzle lock, an interesting combination between a logic game and a sliding tile game.
Tower
Four colours. Presumably one ball is missing on the other side.
MOVING MARBLES
Astrolabacus
A unique ball puzzle. Sold in small quantities online.
Cmetrick
9 spheres arranged in a 3x3 square. Spin rows and columns to position them in the same orientation.
Cmetrick Too
Each of the four spheres has to have its own colour.
Magic 8
Group the three colours to solve this puzzle.
Rubik's Shells
A puzzle with four, three or two wheels. Depending on the configuration.
SwitchBack
A series of 8 bars with holes in them is used to move the marbles from cell to cell.
Ten Billion Barrel
A classical japanese puzzle from the original cube craze. This entry is about the versions with Nintendo-logo.
Top-Spin
"Just put the numbers in order"... sounds a lot easier than it is!
MOVING TILES
Arusloky
Two rotating circles - very similar to the Cohan Circle puzzle.
Double Disk
A puzzle with four rotating intersecting circles.
Dual Circle
Dual Circle - surprisingly enough is two interlocking circles - pieces move when the circles are turned.
Gerdig UFO
Spin the top/bottom half to mix the satellites, then use the central plunger to flip one, two, three or four satellites over.
Handy Mad Triad
Twist the fingertips to rotate the four overlapping discs of wedges.
Mad Triad
Ten overlapping wheels. Each with six segments.
Net Block UFO
Rotate the top/bottom half, then spin each half of a sphere to scramble the puzzle.
Pakovalec
Puzzle from the Czech Republic. Alternative names are Zylla and Xylinder and Dutch Tube.
Puzzler - Novice
Create a solid blue circle to solve. The simplest of three different versions.
Rashkey 1
First of a series of three similar puzzles. The three differ only by the colours of the pieces.
Rashkey 2
Second of a series of three similar puzzles. The three differ only by the colours of the pieces.
Rashkey 3
Third of a series of three similar puzzles. The three differ only by the colours of the pieces.
Rubik's Fifteen (XV)
Rubik's 15 (XV) is 2 puzzles in one. Arrange the numbers in sequence 1 to 15. On the other side there is a magic square challenge.
Triple Cross
Use two up-down plungers and a left-right plunger to set the 3 orange dots, a green circle and the words "Binary Arts". A grey and a blue version exists.
Turbo Mind Twister
Slide the cars and twist the sphere in an effort to park each car beside its matching colour spot.
SIAMESE & FUSED
Fused Cubes
Two 3x3x3's fused together to share a block of dimensions 2x2x2.
FOLDING
OTHER MECHANISMS
Brainball
Spin the number ring, and twist the ends to flip seven of the thirteen numbers over.
Planets
Four balls in a frame. Craters on each ball block and unblock rotation of the adjacent balls.
Rubik's 360
Six coloured balls have to be moved in their matching domes.
Rubik's Triamid
Arrange the ten pieces by breaking them into two groups and putting them back together again.
Spin-Out
Try and remove the inner sliding mechanism, blocked by knobs you can only turn one at a time.
The Brain
The object of this puzzle is to get all the sliders either in or out. Several stacked and slotted disks inside the puzzle limit the range of movement at each step.
BOOKS
GAMES
Frustr8tor
Several different "8 queens" puzzles usually played on a chess board.
Magellán
Twist the pieces to ensure no two like colours are side by side, on either side of the puzzle.
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