TwistyPedia is a collection of terminology developed by twisty puzzle designers and enthusiasts of this forum. It was initiated by Oskar van Deventer as a private site to collect and provide exact definitions of special, twisty puzzle-related terms. On his proposal, this content was handed over to TwistyPuzzles in August 2021. A big Thank You to Oskar for this library.

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Alphabetical index

Active cut

Active layer

Augmented-(puzzle name)

Ball cut

Bandaging

Boublesizing

Bubbloid

Coloration

Complex-(puzzle name)

Composite cut

Corner-turning

Cuboid

Curvy cut

Cut

Cut curve

Deep cut

Deeper-than-origin cut

Doctrinaire

Edge-turning

Equator

Face-turning

Floppy

Fudging

Fully functional

Fully scrambled

Fusing

Gearing

Hidden bandaging

Higher order

Holding Point

Hollow

Imaginary Piece

Jumbling

Knock-off

Knucklehead

Mixup

Mod/modification

Multi-origin

Multi-(puzzle name)

NHP

Non doctrinaire

Offset cut

Olzing

Open

Order

Origin

Origin cut

Parent jumbling puzzle

Pillowing

Projective-(puzzle name)

Proportional

Real Piece

Rotation axis

Shallow cut

Shape mod

Shape-shifting

Shells mechanism

Siamese

Slice-(puzzle name)

Slice cut

Slice only

Sticker mod

Stored cut

Straight cut

Super-(puzzle name)

Super Augmented-(puzzle name)

Super Complex-(puzzle name)

Super Multi-(puzzle name)

Transformation

Twisty puzzle

Unbandaging

Vertex-turning

Virtual Piece

Void

ZHP