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This collection spans four decades and counting!


2X2X2

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

3X3X3

25th anniversary cube Puzzle made for the 25th anniversary of the cube. Good for speedcubing after lubricating.
ITC Rubik's Cube (US packaging II) The second of the three different 1980 Ideal U.S. packages.
Rubik's 40th Anniversary Cube Rubik's 40th Anniversary - Wood Edition.

Rubik's Cube Key Chain (Ideal) The original 1982 Rubik's Cube Key Chain by Ideal.
Two-Faced Cube A 3x3x3 with stickers covered with lenticular lenses. Whether it looks solved depends on the view angle.

4X4X4

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.

5X5X5

Rubik's 5x5x5 Version by Rubiks.com from 2002

CUBE (SHAPE PRESERVING)

Curvy Copter A variation on the Helicopter Cube that uses curved cuts to reveal the otherwise hidden centerpieces.
Curvy Mosaic Cube A variant of the Fadi Cube (aka "Mosaic Cube") with round cuts.
Elite Skewb The first corner turning hexahedron with 3 cuts per axis.

Master Skewb An incredible creation by Katsuhiko Okamoto. A very rare puzzle for many years it became mass produced in 2011.
Skewb The deepcut corner turning cube.

CUBE (SHAPE CHANGING)

Gear Cube Extreme (aka Anisotropic Cube) A Gear Cube with four geared edges replaced with four non-geared edges.
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.
Square-3 Plus A Square-1, combining one layer of a Square-1 and one layer of a Square-2.

Sunflower Cube A reimplemented Clover Cube without the corner pieces.
The Block A bilingual version "The Block", maybe also for the canadian market with a logo in a different font.

OTHER SIX-SIDED

More Madness The deeper cut cousin of the Meteor Madness. A jumbling-only puzzle.

DODECAHEDRON

Bauhinia Dodecahedron II The Rex Dodecahedron with slightly different cuts that make a corner piece appear.
Crystal Dreidel A puzzle made by combining the concepts of Dreidelmate and Multidodecahedron.
Curvy Starminx A face turning dodecahedron with a mixture of pieces from other puzzles with this axis system.

Megaminx Meffert's version from 1982 with six colours.
Skewb Ultimate A dodecahedron build up from a Skewb.

FOUR

Professor Pyraminx Five-layer pyraminx in pillowed tetrahedron shape.
Pyraminx (Bienengraeber) The white Meffert's 1981 version for the german market. This package has a different sticker/seal design.

SPHERE

Geomaster Masterball (aka Rainbow) The most colourful and the most widely sought-after of the Masterball variations.

STAR

Alexander's Star A confusing twelve sided puzzle in a shape of a great dodecahedron, closely related to the Megaminx.

OTHER SHAPES

Cube 3-compound A hybrid puzzle which combines two axis systems and has a perfectly fitting shape.

MOVING HOLE

Inversion A sliding blocks puzzle with only edges and corners.
Missing Link The tile sliding puzzle from the original cube craze.
Pepsi Can A tile-sliding puzzle with the shape and design of a Pepsi can. The sliding is somewhat shifted.


MOVING MARBLES

Entrapment A strange puzzle with moving marbles that came in two different versions.
Orb (aka Orb-It) (english versions) A bead-moving puzzle that came in at least four different versions. The non-english versions have their own entry.
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

Turn Stile - basic version A moving tiles puzzle with two intersecting circles.

FOLDING

BETCHA CAN'T! Flexible Hexagon Similar to Rubik's Magic, but with hexagon shaped tiles.
Rubik's Create The Cube Fold the magic puzzle into a cube shape complete with a stand.
Rubik's Magic (Matchbox) The 1986 black Matchbox version.

Rubik's Master Magic The 12 panel, five ring Magic by Matchbox.
Rubik's Snake The original version produced by Politoys.

ELECTRONIC

Merlin (aka The Electronic Wizard) An electronic toy with 6 different playable games.

OTHER MECHANISMS

Rubik's Clock Point all 18 clocks to 12 to solve.
Rubik's Triamid Arrange the ten pieces by breaking them into two groups and putting them back together again.

BOOKS

The Simple Solutions To Cubic Puzzles Came with two different covers.



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