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Welcome to my cave of wonders. Not a speed-cuber; I like different challenges and puzzle solves, so there are a lot of unique types in here.

Puzzles listed aren't necessarily the exact brands/vintage, but styles are the same. Too lazy to sort through every page in detail. ;)


2X2X2

2x2x2 Magic Puzzle East Sheen's 2002 2x2x2 cube.

3X3X3

All-In-One Bandaged Cube The mass produced brother of the Ultimate Bandaged 3x3x3. This version uses flat tiles instead of Lego bricks.
Armadillo Cube A 3x3x3 sold with the colour pattern of an Ultimate Cube but with removable pieces.
Ball Sudoku Cube Mefferts variant of the "Nine Color Scramble Cube"

Constrained Cube A 3x3x3 which twisting abilities can be contrained by various pieces. Mass produced versions of seven variants exists.
Crazy 3x3x3 Plus Cube - Uranus A Crazy 3x3x3 where some of the six circles move together with the surrounding layer and some not.
Crazy 3x3x3 Plus Cube - Venus A Crazy 3x3x3 where some of the six circles move together with the surrounding layer and some not.

Latch Cube A 3x3x3 with innovatively restricted movements.
Mixup 3x3x3 A 3x3x3 that allows swapping of centers with edges.
Rubik's Cube (Winning Moves) 2005-version by Winning Moves.

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.

4X4X4

AI Cube One of the two bandaged 4x4x4 with the highest possible degree of symmetry.
V-Cube 4 The 4x4x4 by Verdes Innovations

5X5X5

5x5x5 Magic Puzzle East Sheen's 2002 5x5x5 cube.

6X6X6 & UP

Cubic 7x7x7 A V-Cube 7x7x7 modified to give it a true cubic shape.
V-Cube 6 The first mass produced 6x6x6. A six layered cube.

CUBE (SHAPE PRESERVING)

3x3x3 Curvy Copter A puzzle that combines the 3x3x3 and the curvy copter but with face turns equally curved as the copter-moves.
4-Leaf-Clover Cube An edge turning cube which closest relative is a more complex hybrid puzzle that came before it.
Compy Skewb A corner turning hexahedron with four (no more!) logical layers.

Cubic 3x3x5 A 3x3x5 in shape of a hexahedron. This allows some moves a true 3x3x5 cuboid would not allow.
Curvy Copter A variation on the Helicopter Cube that uses curved cuts to reveal the otherwise hidden centerpieces.
Curvy Copter III An edge turning hexahedron with cuttings depths somewhere between Curvy Copter and Curvy Copter II. This is a hexahedral brother of the master pyramorphix but with curved cuts.

Curvy Mosaic Cube A variant of the Fadi Cube (aka "Mosaic Cube") with round cuts.
F-Skewb F-Skewb = Offset Skewb + 4 Dino cuts
Flower Copter A hybrid puzzle which combines the moves of the Curvy Copter (hence the name) and moves similar (but not identical) to the Rex Cube.

Maple Leaves Skewb A Skewb with one additional type of turn akin the Krystian's Cube.
Master Skewb An incredible creation by Katsuhiko Okamoto. A very rare puzzle for many years it became mass produced in 2011.
Multi-Skewb Years after the Multi-Dodecahedron the same concept for the corner turning cubes was realized.

Polo Gear Cube A 2x2x2 combined with a special move including gears.
Rex Cube A corner turning hexahedron. Very similar to the MasterSkewb but without its corners.
Skewb The deepcut corner turning cube.

Tangram Cube A triangular prism transformed into a cube but with six identically looking sides.
Unicorn A Rhino Cube with different cuts.

CUBE (SHAPE CHANGING)

2x2x2 Ghost Cube The lower order brother of the Ghost Cube. Made from a 2x2x2.
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 Corners Cube A cube with cuts corresponding to the twelve faces of a face turning triakis tetrahedron. A jumbling-only puzzle.

AXIS Wheel of Time An axised version of the Wheel of Time.
Axis Cube A 3x3x3 with the cutting planes rotated by 60� around a corner.
Beveling Axis Cube A 3x3x3 which axis system was twisted less than 60 degrees.

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.
Clover Cube PlusPlus A modification of the Clover Cube in which the inventor split up the wing pieces.
DaYan Bermuda Cube - Earth The Earth version of DaYan's Bermuda series.

DaYan Bermuda Cube - Jupiter The Jupiter version of DaYan's Bermuda series.
DaYan Bermuda Cube - Mars The Mars version of DaYan's Bermuda series.
DaYan Bermuda Cube - Mercury The Mercury version of DaYan's Bermuda series.

DaYan Bermuda Cube - Neptune The Neptune version of DaYan's Bermuda series.
DaYan Bermuda Cube - Saturn The Saturn version of DaYan's Bermuda series.
DaYan Bermuda Cube - Uranus The Uranus version of DaYan's Bermuda series.

DaYan Bermuda Cube - Venus The Venus version of DaYan's Bermuda series.
Dreidel 3x3x3 A hybrid of corner turning and face turning cube. The cuts are inspired by the Dreidel Skewb. The cuts allow 60°-turns.
Duo Axis Cube A cubic 3x3x5 moved into a pattern and modified back into cubic shape.

Fisher Axis Cube A Fisher Cube with a tilted axis.
Fisher's Golden Cube All the stickers on this 78 mm modified Skewb are the same reflective golden colour. There is only one solution.
Gear Compy Cube The geared version of the Compy Cube.

Geared Mixup A Gear Cube combined with the Mixup Cube. It allows 90°-moves.
Ghost Cube A 3x3x3 placed in midturn and reoriented in its original shape. Every piece is of unique shape and therefore sticker can be unicoloured.
Insanity Cubed A cubic version of the Edge of Insanity puzzle.

MF8 Square-1 MF8s version from 2007. Produced in five different colours.
Marcos Square-1 A Square-1 in midturn and afterwards reshaped into a cube.
Master Axis Cube The concept of the axis cube applied to a 4x4x4.

Master Bump Axis A Master Axis cube was bumped into this shape variant.
Master Windmill Cube A 4x4x4 twisted inside of its solid. It resembles one of Katzuhiko Okamoto's most popular creations.
Mirror Chest Skewb A Treasure Skewb transformed into a "bump"ed variant.

Mirror Square-1 The concepts of Mirror Blocks (aka: Bump Cube) and Square-1 combined in one puzzle.
Mixup 3x3x4 II A 3x3x4 that allows additional mixup turn.
Pillowed Hexaminx A pillowed version of the Hexaminx.

Project Shift A Ghost version of the 1x2x3 2x2x3 mashup.
Rafael's Cube aka Fisher Bump Cube A bump cube was fishered or a Fisher Cube was bumped.
SkewSkewb (aka Axis Skewb) The concept of the Axis Cube applied to a Skewb.

Skewb des Soleils A "real" Gear Skewb.
Square-2 A modified Square-1 where the corners are split into two pieces. A non-bandaged puzzle unlike the original.
Tangram Extreme Cube A Tangram Cube with additional stored cuts. A bandaged hexagonal prism in shape of a cube.

Trifurcation Cube A mass produced cube with 24 axes in a jumbling only axis system.
Two solutions Mirror Blocks A sticker variant of the Mirror Block puzzle which leads into a puzzle with two solutions.
Windmill Cube A 3x3x3 variation built by Katsuhiko Okamoto.

Windmirror Cube A Windmill cube bumped on one axis.
Yileng Time of Wheel A "fishered" version of the Time Wheel.

RHOMBOHEDRON

2x2x2 Transform pyraminx LiuSeLingJing Lolo's octahedron mass produced in the shape of a rhombohedron.
Trigonal Trapezohedron 3x3x3 A truncated and extended 3x3x3 in the shape of a trigonal trapezohedron.

CUBOID

2x3x4 Camouflage A 4x4x4 in camouflage. In this case it pretends to be a 2x3x4.
3x3x4 (cube4You) Not the first fully functional 3x3x4 but the first mass produced.
3x4x5 The long awaited bigger brother of the 2x3x4. Unlike all the previous 3x4x5s, this isn't a cubie chaos out of 2 siamese cubes but a fully finctional 3x4x5 cuboid.

4x4x5 (mass produced) The first mass produced 4x4x5.
4x4x6 Fisher Cuboid The mass produced 4x4x6 fishered (twisted 45� inside its solid) and again mass produced.
4x5x5 (mass produced) The first mass produced 4x5x5.

Bubbloid112 A corner turning cuboid designed to be a puzzle with a multi-origin-core. The second implementation of this concept.
Calvins Cuboid Series (I-Cube) A 3x3x3 with one side extended with an additional rotating layer. Member of a whole series similar to the Crazy Plus 3x3x3s.
Case Cube (Box Cube) An extended version of the "Octagon/Cube".

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 2x3x3 A 3x3x4 with two layers removed but not hidden.
CrazyBad 4x4x5 Cuboid (center-shifted) A 4x4x6 with one layer eliminated.

Diamond Cuboid A Ghost 2x3x4. One out of a series of three.
Fisher Tower (Fisher 3x3x5) A "fishered" 3x3x5.
Mental Box A truncated Container or less extended Mental Block.


OCTAHEDRON

Dayan Corner Octahedron Modern mass produced version of the "Magic Octahedron" from the eighties. Sold in differently coloured versions.
Face Turning Octahedron The first face turning octahedron with straight cuts.
Mixup Octahedron A deeper cut mixup cube transformed into an octahedron.

Trajber's Octahedron Of this 3x3x3-variant only few examples were produced and sold in the eighties.

OTHER EIGHT-SIDED

Dayan Gem VIII A face turning octahedron in shape of a truncated tetrahedron (an archimedean solid) with non-equidistant cuts.

DODECAHEDRON

Dodecahedron 3x3x3 Built on a 3x3x3 with extensions only.
Gear Dodecahedron A Gear Cube in shape of a dodecahedron.
Gigaminx The face turning dodecahedron with two layers per face. A Megaminx with an additional layer on each face.

Golden Dodecahedron A dodecahedral version of Tony Fisher's Golden Cube.
Helicopter Dodecahedron (MF8) This puzzle tries to reimplement the Helicopter Cube in a dodecahedron.
Magic Dodecahedron 4x4x4 A mass produced challenger of the Master Kilominx.

Megaminx (Tomy) Tomy's twelve colour 1982 version.
Pyraminx Crystal Essentially a deeper cut megaminx at heart, the Pyraminx crystal adds a new twist to the classic puzzle.
Skewb Ultimate A dodecahedron build up from a Skewb.


RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON

Evil Eye I (Close-eye) Dodecahedron A variant of the Cross Cube in the shape of a rhombic dodecahedron. The inner 3x3x3 is invisible.

FOUR

2x2x2 Transform pyraminx standard Lolo's octahedron mass produced in the shape of a tetrahedron.
Crazy Tetrahedron Plus - Jupiter A derivative of the Crazy Tetrahedron. It is part of a series of eight variants named after the eight planets of the solar system.
Edge-Only Halpern-Meier-Tetrahedron A Halper-Meier-Tetrahedron without corner pieces.

Gemini Pyraminx The concepts of the Xenomorphix and Genomorphix applied to a Floppy Cube.
Ghost Pyramid Cube A ghosted version of the HMT
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.
Pyraminx (rounded corners) The black 1981 Meffert version.
Reuleaux Mastermorphix (aka Master Pyramorphinx) A 3x3x3 in shape of a Reuleaux tetrahedron.

Reuleaux Megamorphix A 4x4x4 in shape of a Reuleaux tetrahedron.
Reuleaux Ultramorphix A 5x5x5 in shape of a reuleaux tetrahedron.
Royal Pyraminx A Pyraminx with 6 layers.


FIVE

Crazy Pentahedron Puzzle - Mercury A derivative of the Triangular Prism with circles on its sides. The 1st out of 8 variants.
Standard 5-Layers Pentahedron Puzzle A derivative of the Triangular Prism with five layers.

FOURTEEN

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.

Vertex turning cuboctahedron A Helicopter Cube truncated into the shape of cuboctahedron.

TWENTY

Octaminx Ultimate Pyraminx Ultimate with small pyramidal tips. This version became mass produced.

OTHER N-SIDED

Love-Bird A corner only Tuttminx.

SPHERE

Marusenko Sphere A spherical cousin of the Junior Cross cube. It comes with a wide variety of colour schemes.
Megaminx Sphere Megaminx in shape of a sphere

CYLINDER

Column Megaminx A megaminx in shape of a cylinder.
Dino Cylinder A Dino Cube in cylindral shape with bright black plastic and very reduced stickers.
Ghost Barrel 2 A Ghost Cube in the shape of a barrel (shaped differently than version 1). Went into mass production.


ROUND CONVEX SHAPES

Morphegg A 3x3x3 in shape of an egg.

STAR

Skewb Star Stellated Skewb from Meffert's parts. The first sample were made without exchanged pieces.
Two layer star prism The cousin of the star prism with two layers.

HEADS & OBJECTS

1x2x3 Christmas Tree A 1x2x3 puzzle in the shape of a Christmas tree.
DaYan Bermuda Cube - Red House Special Bermuda variant in shape of a house. This one has a red roof.
Elephant 2x2x2 A mass produced 2x2x2 in shape of an elephant.

Fruit cube - Banana A mass produced 2x2x3 in shape of a banana.
Panda 2x2x2 A 2x2x2 in shape of a panda.
Tiger Cube A 2x2x2 in shape of a tiger.

Valentine's Heart Cube A 3x3x3 in shape of a heart.

OTHER SHAPES

Extended Cube A 3x3x3 with 54 cubies glued upon each face. Looks identical to the Cross Cube which allows additional funcationality but was invented way later.
Rainbow Nautilus A dihedral puzzle with fascinating shape, colours and a strange arrangement of cuts.
Vulcano A four layer puzzle originally named Trignis or Cross Pyraminx.

X2 X-Cube A 3x3x3 with two additional layers on four of its sides.

SIAMESE & FUSED

Mirror Brick (aka Siamese Mirror Cube) Two Bump Cubes were fused into a single block.
Seven Star UFO 7 spherical 2x2x2s embedded in an UFO-like shape. The pieces can be exchanged.
Siamese 6 (1x2x3) Cubes A nice custom-built variation on the Siamese Cubes.



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