A fishered variant of the bandaged 3x3x3 on which the Pocket Cube is based.

• Inventor: Mark Lodge
• Mechanism: 3x3x3
• Patents: Unknown
• Producer: Custom
• Year: 2023
• Original Price: $0.00 USD
• Current Price: No Data

This puzzle followed renewed interest in shape-mods of the Corner Pocket cube in September 2023.

The Corner Pocket uses the bandaging scheme of Andreas Nortmann's Bandaged 3x3x3 2013930080085E - 3 Quads, 3 Stripes and extends these bandaged pieces to large cubes, making it appear like a very heavily bandaged 4x4x4 with seven identically shaped pieces. After the first turn it becomes obvious that the puzzle is not doctrinaire. Justin also gave the puzzle a sticker-mod, with all the extended pieces in the same colour, and two stickering schemes for the smaller cubies: gold/gold/gold or green/yellow/blue. The Corner Pocket is therefore a bandaged, extended shape-mod, sticker-mod.

The Fisher Pocket Cube by Joachim Solberg is a bumped and fishered version of Justin Eplett's Corner Pocket in the four-colour scheme.

This puzzle does not take a 'Corner Pocket' name variant because it does not have the extended pieces and so the axis of the 45 degree rotation for the Fisher shape-mod is over a centre piece. A 'Fisher Corner Pocket' would have a different axis of rotation and look like a heavily bandaged 4x4x4 Fisher Cube. As such, this puzzle is named for the axis-rotation shape-mod 'Fisher' and the '3 Quads 3 Stripes' bandaging scheme. The stickering schemes chosen for the white body is two metallics for the bandaged/unbandaged pieces, but other possible schemes include a six-colour BOYRGW, a one-colour, and variations on these.

Images 1-5 show the second implementation of the concept.
Images 6-8 show the first one.
That variant was the result of a spontaneous reaction by the inventor. It started when a forum member reimplemented the Fisher Pocket Cube (see the separate entry) which itself is a bumped puzzle. It was realised that a non-bumped version has not been implemented yet. Mark filled that hole within one day.
He was so unhappy with that he remade it instantanously with version 2.

Thank you to the following people for their assistance in helping collect the information on this page: Mark Lodge.

This puzzle can be found in collections of these members:

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