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2X2X2

Batman Mini-Cube A 2x2x2 cube featuring characters as seen in the cartoon: Batman, The Animated Series.
Mini Büvös Kocka Rubik's Studio 1998 2x2x2 version
Popeye Pocket Cube (ideal) The 1982 Ideal version.

Rubik's Pocket Cube The 1981 released by Ideal Toy Corporation.

3X3X3

Bandaged Cube The first mass produced bandaged 3x3x3 with only one unbandaged piece.
Cube Puzzle Cloned 3x3x3 from the original cube craze.
Eight Color Cube A 3x3x3 cube split into eighths, with each having one colour. Eliminates the need to consider corner orientations but introduces face orientations.

ITC Rubik's Cube (US packaging III) The third of the three different Ideal 1980 U.S. packages. With a transparent sticker carrying the logo.
ITC Rubik's Cube Deluxe Edition (tiles) The Rubik's Deluxe Cube. ITCs version with tiles instead of stickers.
Rubenking Cube An attractive sticker variation with confusing properties.

Rubik's 4th Dimension Made in the late 1980's. Four special stickers reveal the orientation of their faces.
Rubik's Cube (OddzOn) Official Rubik's Cubes manufactured in the 1990's and 2000's
Rubik's Cube (OddzOn) Official Rubik's Cubes manufactured in the 1990's and 2000's

Rubik's Cube (second batch by Politechnika) The second batch of the Politechnika version from 1977.
Rubik's Cube - Rubik's Studio Version from Rubik Studio (Hungary)
Tartan Cube 3x3x3 A brilliant design, filled with symmetries, some of which only become apparent after you scramble it.

Vending Machine 3x3x3 A micro 3x3x3 from a vending machine.
White Cube This 50 mm white plastic cube has painted dots instead of stickers.
Wonderful Puzzler (Key Chain) A Wonderful Puzzler keychain with normal colours.


3X3X3 (PICTURE)

Poker Cube VII This version has two face card sides in addition to the standard four suit sides.
Religious Objects Puzzle Cube Contains numerous Jewish holiday symbols.
Royal Puzzle The official Royal Wedding Cube. Commemorating the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, July 29, 1981.

Rubik's Perpetual Calendar - English The original red and white English version. "Rubik's Calendar"

4X4X4

Rubik's Revenge Ideal's 1982 version from Hong Kong.

5X5X5

Professor Cube (grooved tiles) Meffert's 1998 tiled version.

CUBE (SHAPE PRESERVING)

Skewb The deepcut corner turning cube.

CUBE (SHAPE CHANGING)

The Block A bilingual version "The Block", maybe also for the canadian market with a logo in a different font.

CUBOID

Magic Domino The 1982 Politoys version with a spindle mechanism.

OCTAHEDRON

Okki (a.k.a. Gem) (a.k.a. Pyradiamond) A 2x2x2 in octahedral form.

OTHER EIGHT-SIDED

Tetraminx The official Meffert Tetraminx.

DODECAHEDRON

Megaminx (1999) This version has tiles instead of stickers. Has 12 distinct colors.
Megaminx (Tomy) Tomy's twelve colour 1982 version.
Skewb Ultimate A dodecahedron build up from a Skewb.


FOUR

Igra Piramidka (Tula) These brands of soviet Pyraminxes have tiles and one with a bas-relief "stamp" stating the price of 3 roubles.
Pyramid Puzzler Keychain A Pyraminx clone that measures exactly 50 mm along an edge.
Pyraminx (rounded corners) The black 1981 Meffert version.

Pyramorphix A 2x2x2 in shape of a tetrahedron.

FOURTEEN

Rainbow Cube A beautiful (but simple) puzzle closely related to the Dino Cube!

TWENTY

Dogic Probably the most sought after of all Twisty Puzzles which went in mass production.

PUCKS

Brainbow Puck The puck puzzle with six colours in a rainbow pattern.

SPHERE

Geomaster Masterball (aka Rainbow) The most colourful and the most widely sought-after of the Masterball variations.
Impossiball (aka Incrediball) A unique dodecahedral puzzle.
Magic Ball (aka Rubik's Sphere) - 58 mm One of the spherical Rubiks cubes produced during the original cube craze. A derivative of the Wonderful Puzzler.

Rubik's World A black globe on a stand with the seven continents in various colours.
Thomas Ball - Solid Colours This version has one red and one blue pole separated by a blue equator.

CYLINDER

Bump Cheese A bumped variant of the Cheese-puzzle. A six segment prism with one layer.

STAR

Alexander's Star A confusing twelve sided puzzle in a shape of a great dodecahedron, closely related to the Megaminx.
Starburst (aka Star of David) This fun custom built puzzle is based on a Pyramorphix / 2x2x2 mechanism.

OTHER SHAPES

Cube In Sphere Cross between Rubik's Cube and Rubik's Sphere. Hand crafted mutation cube.
Rubik's UFO An attractive little puzzle, possibly related to the legendary Rubik's Cheeze.
Sphere In Cube Cross between Rubik's Cube and Rubik's Sphere. Hand crafted mutation cube.


MOVING HOLE

Back Spin A mix between the moving hole puzzles and the two-layer UFO puzzles.
Calendar Puzzle This sliding tiles puzzle/calendar/coin bank has a total of 41 tiles arranged in seven columns and six rows.
Inside Out 4x4x4 Rainbow (aka Vadasz Kocka) The rainbow coloured 4x4x4 version of the Vadasz cube.

Ivory Tower A very successful puzzle from the original cube craze but not from Ernö Rubik.
Magic Jack Slide the 26 cubes around to solve this puzzle in one of three ways.
Mind Lock Just make the front purple.. and the back green by sliding the tiles.

Mind Twister Six circles each with eight pieces and one hole.
Missing Link The tile sliding puzzle from the original cube craze.
Missing Link Key Chain The 1982 official keychain variant of Missing Link released by Ideal.

Missing Link Necklace (aka Link Puzzler) A 36 mm Missing Link knockoff, sold with a necklace chain. Came in a variety of different packages depicting different sports.
Pepsi Can A tile-sliding puzzle with the shape and design of a Pepsi can. The sliding is somewhat shifted.
Peter's Black Hole Another variation on the 26 sliding cube theme.

RTL Magic Jack This version promotes RTL, a German television station.
Spongebob 2x4 Burger King's 2 layer Missing Link type of puzzle, used to promote the Spongebob movie.
Whip-It 3x6 (cylindrical) This 3x6 Whip-It stands approximately 7cm tall.


MOVING MARBLES

Astrolabacus A unique ball puzzle. Sold in small quantities online.
Diamond Bob's Billiards 9 Ball Puzzle A true sequential movement puzzle. The 10 "balls" move around on a non-trivial track.
Flower Bring the marbles back to the circle of their colour.

Monroe's Marbles Move the marbles from one column to the next by tilting and turning. Try to get each column a single colour.
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

Chromosix Number Ball (aka Cromoball, aka Mystic I.Q. Ball) This version has the numbers one through five on each of the six faces.
Circle Puzzle Four intersecting circles with fourfold symmetry.
Rashkey 3 Third of a series of three similar puzzles. The three differ only by the colours of the pieces.

Rotascope - Blue Logo Features an image of a snake entwined with a blue version of the Pentangle logo.
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.

SIAMESE & FUSED

Fused 2x2x2 Two 2x2x2s fused with one common cubie.
Fused Cubes Two 3x3x3's fused together to share a block of dimensions 2x2x2.
Siamese 3 (1x1x3) Two 3x3x3 cubes sharing one column of cubies.

Siaminx The two Pyraminx share a single edge piece.

FOLDING

Kellogg's Raisin Splitz Mini Magic This comes in at least three different versions with the some front and different back sides.
P.G. Co Puzzle Snake Key Chain Came in four different colours.
Roundy - The Clever Disk Three wings, six colours. A version made for self-advertising.

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.


PATTERN MATCHING

Color Matcher (aka Circus Puzzle, aka Circus Seven) A simple little puzzle that can be solved quite quickly with an exhaustive search.
Rubik's Dice A great little puzzle that keep you busy for hours!

OTHER MECHANISMS

Brainball Spin the number ring, and twist the ends to flip seven of the thirteen numbers over.
Rubik's Clock Point all 18 clocks to 12 to solve.
Spin-Out Try and remove the inner sliding mechanism, blocked by knobs you can only turn one at a time.


BOOKS

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

GAMES

Rubik's Game Create a row of 3 pegged squares of ONE of your colours - vertically, horizontally or diagonally, on one side of the Cube.

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