Welcome to you, worldwide fellows !
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Update (01/12/2007) :
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I've added one item to my collection and i am now looking for "Bedlam / Soma cubes" :
- Tetris Cube (red-yellow-bleu version) (although it is not a "twisty puzzle" but a 3d-puzzle)
Update (14/10/2007) :
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I've added three items to my collection :
- Dream-Ball (six colors version : red, green, blue, white, yellow, orange)
- Thinkfun's Pete's pike
- Hanayama Cast "Quartet"
Update (15/09/2007) :
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I've added one item to my collection :
- Rubik's Revolution (although it is not a "twisty puzzle", nor even a puzzle at all)
Update (29/06/2007) :
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I've added three items to my collection :
- Rubik's Triamid
- Rubik's Magic Harry Potter
- ThinkFun's Subtrax
Update (25/06/2007) :
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I've added one item to my collection :
- Rubik's Delta Ball (aka Rubik's Brain Racker)
End of updates.
Here is my collection from ORLEANS in FRANCE (a town of countryside with a population of more than 250,000 inhabitants).
Coming soon : more detailed list and more description for each item. Please be patient...
Those that i prefer : 2x2x2 Darth Maul's Head, Rashkey 3, Skweb, Square 1 / Cube 21, The Orb
Others that gave me lots of fun : all Rubik's Magic, Pyraminx and Tetraminx, Skweb Ultimate, Rubik's Tangle
Those that i have not yet achieved : 4x4x4 / Master Cube, 5x5x5 / Professor Cube, Clock, Impossiball, Magic 12, Megaminx, Pakovalec, Rubik's Rabbit / Rubik's Hat
The oldest in my collection (in order of apparition): 3x3x3, Ivory Tower / Tower of Babylon, Pyraminx, Whip-it, Orbix, Missing Link
Please note those following items that are in my collection but not in this website :
- Brainstring (from "Spirid" / "Recent Toys")
- CMetrick II (from "elogicIQ")
- Crossteaser (from "Spirid" / "Recent Toys")
- Custom Black Hole (made from a "RTL Magic Jack")
- Delta Ball aka Brain Racker (from "Rubik's" / "Jumbo")
- Doolorinth (black and hardest version from "Cortoys")
- Double Tangram (from "Rubik's")
- Pakovalec
- Planets (from "Recent Toys")
- Sudoku (from "Rubik's")
- .../...
- many brainteasers and games from "ThinkFun" (formerly "Binary Arts") : Amaze, City Puzzle, Fifteen Puzzle, FlipSide, Gordian's Knot, Hoppers, Leaping Lizards, Lunar Lockout, Metro, Mini Fifteen Puzzle, Raging Rapids, Railroad Rush Hour, River crossing I, River crossing II, Roadside Rescue, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2 (card set), Rush Hour 3 (card set), Rush Hour 4 (card set), Safari Rush Hour, Spiderman City Crossing, Square by square, Stormy Seas, Subtrax, Tip Over...
- various brainteasers from "Damert", "Smart" and "Spirid"...
- many metal brainteasers from "Hanayama Cast Puzzles" : Amour, Baroq, Chain, Cuby, Dolce Vita, Duet, Elk, Enigma, Heart, Labyrinth, L'Oeuf, News, O'Gear, Quartet, Radix, Ring I, Ring II, Spiral
- several metal brainteasers from "Oskar van Deventer"
- many wooden brainteasers (most are from "Arjeux"...)
- various electronic games like "Simon", "Super Simon", "Rubik's Revolution"...
- many games like "Tantrix", "Trax"...
- several cheap and easy brainteasers : "Third Dimension II", "Curious Cross", "Tut's Tomb"
To be continued...
2X2X2
3X3X3
Bandaged Cube
The first mass produced bandaged 3x3x3 with only one unbandaged piece.
Rubenking Cube
An attractive sticker variation with confusing properties.
Tiled Cube 48 mm
This tiled cube stands 48 mm high, including the thickness of the tiles (approximately 1 mm each).
White Cube
This 50 mm white plastic cube has painted dots instead of stickers.
3X3X3 (PICTURE)
Air Jordan
Depicts six images of the famous basketball player.
Maze Cube (3x3x3)
A 3x3x3 custom sticker variation, filled with mathematical considerations, which shows a single closed loop line on it.
4X4X4
5X5X5
CUBE (SHAPE PRESERVING)
Skewb
The deepcut corner turning cube.
CUBE (SHAPE CHANGING)
OTHER EIGHT-SIDED
Star Trap
A jumbling only puzzle which fills a missing slot in the series of face turning tetragonal trapezohedrons between the Crystal Trap and the jumble Trap.
DODECAHEDRON
Megaminx
Meffert's version from 1982 with six colours.
FOUR
FOURTEEN
SPHERE
Rubik's World
A black globe on a stand with the seven continents in various colours.
STAR
HEADS & OBJECTS
Darth Maul Head
One of my prefered brainteasers ; a 2x2x2 puzzle in the shape of Darth Maul's head.
MOVING HOLE
Back Spin
A mix between the moving hole puzzles and the two-layer UFO puzzles.
Ivory Tower
Historically, my second brainteaser ; aka : Tower of Babel / Babylon
Lockout
A puzzle lock, an interesting combination between a logic game and a sliding tile game.
Missing Link
The tile sliding puzzle from the original cube craze.
Puzzle Pen
This 14cm 6x6 puzzle pen with no advertising
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.
MOVING MARBLES
Magic 8
Group the three colours to solve this puzzle.
Ten Billion Barrel
A classical japanese puzzle from the original cube craze. This entry is about the versions with Nintendo-logo.
MOVING TILES
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
One of my prefered brainteasers (it can be done using only one hand) ; third (and hardest) of three similar puzzles. From Germany. Also similar to the Puzzler series.
SIAMESE & FUSED
Rubik's Triamese Cube
The Rubik's Triamese Cube® is constructed out of 3 original 3x3 Rubik's Cubes®. From the Duane Cash Cube Collection.
FOLDING
ELECTRONIC
Orbix
One of my prefered brainteasers ; a spherical version of Lights Out.
PATTERN MATCHING
OTHER MECHANISMS
Elephant Out
A colourful version of Spin Out, but in a smaller size and the knobs are decorated with elephants.
Rubik's Triamid
Arrange the ten pieces by breaking them into two groups and putting them back together again.
Spin-Out
Blue sliding tiles with grey background ; try and remove the inner sliding mechanism, blocked by knobs you can only turn one at a time.
BOOKS
GAMES
Rubik's Magic Strategy Game
"Easy to learn, a challenge to win." (Not to be confused with Rubik's Infinity, which is "easy to learn, a challenge to master"!)