A variation of instant insanity with 4 balls in a frame.

• Inventor : Unknown
• Mechanism : Pattern Matching
• Patents : Unknown
• Producer : Politoys (aka: Politechnika)
• Year : 1981
• Original Price : Unknown USD
• Average Price : $41.25 USD

Every of the four balls can be moved independent from the others. Each ball has 6 dots oriented like the faces of a cube. There are 4 different colours. The aim of the puzzle is to orient the balls in a way that on every column no colour is present twice.
It was produced with white and black bodies.
The black versions in images 2 and 3 show small differences. There was a separate russian version for the soviet union which package is seen in images 7-11.

There is a long row of puzzle in this tradition dating back into the 19th century. "Instant Insanity" is the name known best.
Beginning in 1980 Ideal Toy Corporation produced a variant names "Trikki 4", "Cube-4" or "Face 4".
The earliest known trace of this puzzle is from 1900 when Frederick A Schossow filed a patent (US646463).

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	Sale Date	Price (USD)	Sale Type	Condition	Package Condition	Notes	Contributors	Edit
	2009-05-24	20.50	eBay Auction	Average	Missing		Sergejs Lucuks
	2005-04-22	62.00	eBay Auction	Good	Missing		Aleksey
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Thank you to the following people for their assistance in helping collect the information on this page: Carter, Geert Hellings.

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