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M. Oskar van Deventer is the creator of hundreds of innovative mechanical puzzle designs, several of which are commercially available.

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Half Turn Tetra
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Half Turn Tetra is an edge-turning tetrahedron, suggested by Andreas Nortmann. If this puzzle was a shape-mod of a regular 3x3x3 Rubiks Cube, then...
 
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Gear Planet
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Gear Planet was suggested by Ferdinand Lammertink. Ferdinand is best know as the inventor of several Thinkfun puzzles, including Backspin and Port-...
 
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Fudball
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Fudball was inspired by the Soccer Slide puzzle, designed and built by Iwona Gorczyca. Iwona's original design has sliding rhombusses and isosceles...
 
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Jumble Prism
by Oskar_van_Deventer
JumblePrism is an idea by Bram Cohen. It is a twisty puzzle like Rubik's Cube, but using on a triangular prism. Because of this odd geometry, the p...
 
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Proportional Oh
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Proportional Oh was suggested by Alex Polonsky. It is a proportional Rubik's-Cube size version of Oh Cube. Watch the YouTube video. Read at the S...
 
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Septic Twist
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Septic Twist combines several ideas. Bram Cohen asked Oskar: "can you design a twisty puzzle with septagons?". Andreas Nortmann asked Oskar: "can y...
 
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Geared Hex
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Geared Hex is a hexagonal version of Bram's Cube. The hexagonal part turns similar to a Rubik's Cheese or a Rubik's UFO puzzle. The top and bottom ...
 
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PantaBram
by Oskar_van_Deventer
PantaBram is Bram Cohen's variation to PantaCube, which is Oskar's variation to Pantazis Houlis' Cubedron. The puzzles has five pyramids that slide...
 
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Impossiburr
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Impossiburr is an impossible object, that is also a puzzle. Six pieces go together to form this Esher-style triangle. Watch the YouTube video. Pl...
 
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Switched Maze
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Switched Maze is a mechanical maze. The object is to roll the metal ball from "Start" to "Goal". The ball is impeded by gates at several points in ...
 
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Bram's Rocket
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This puzzle has seven cubes moving through a frame. The object is to get all colors right. The design is an idea by Bram Cohen, hence the name of t...
 
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RotaCubes
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This puzzle was sponsored by Ray Stanton. --- It has three cubes moving through a frame. The object is to get all colors right. The design is an id...
 
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Arrow Planet Base
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This is the base only of the Arrow Planet puzzle. Its purpose is to illustrate the jumbling geometry without the surface sliders. Watch the YouTu...
 
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Dino Chop
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This is a magnets-based puzzle, suggested by Vladimir Yaroslavskiy. Note that you will need a metal ball and a lot of magnets to build this puzzle....
 
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Spiral Cup
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Spiral Cup is a so-called "greedy cup" puzzle. If you try to drink too fast or without thinking, then you will spill the drink over yourself. The c...
 
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Krystian's Pyramid
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Krystian's Pyramid is a shape-mod of Krystian's Twist by Krystian Wilisowski. By turning this crazy jumbling puzzle into a pyramid, the shape is ea...
 
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Spherigears
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Spherigears combines the ideas of the Sphere Gear puzzle (a mechanical maze puzzle by Oskar) and Bramboules. The combination was suggested by Bram ...
 
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Spiral Burr 90x90x90 mm
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Spiral Burr 90x90x90 mm is a scaled-up version of the PuzzleMaster version. It is a six-piece burr of interlocking spirals. Next to sliding and ro...
 
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Sixth Sense Huge
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This is a huge version of the Sixth Sense puzzle ring, meant as big demo model. This six-part puzzle ring is a design by Bram Cohen, and developed ...
 
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Spider Gear
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Spider Gear was suggested by Bram Cohen and named by José. A ball with holes is contained by a cage and six pointy gears. When the ball is turned ...
 
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Hill's Tetrahedra Prism
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Commissioned by Ed Pegg. Six identical irregular tetrahedra form a prism.
 
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Jumblix
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Jumblix is another exercise in jumbling. It looks like two Megaminx halves fused together after a 180 degrees turn. A bit of fudging was needed to ...
 
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Concentric Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Concentric Cube is a variation to the Nested Cube. It features a frame holding three concentric 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube. The three cubes are bandaged to...
 
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Mixup Prism
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Mixup Prism combines features from Canny Uncube, Mixup Cube, Jack's Cube, and The Senior Barrel. All edges and center can be swapped by turning the...
 
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Hollow Diamond
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Hollow Diamond is an octahedron-shaped twisty puzzle that is completely hollow inside. The puzzle has the geometry of a Skewb puzzle. The puzzle is...
 
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Ring set 1 Weave-Five Take-Five Six-to-Three
by Oskar_van_Deventer
These are three puzzle rings, all novel designs by Bram Cohen. The object is to scramble the rings and then bring them back to the ring shape. Very...
 
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DinoBram
by Oskar_van_Deventer
DinoBram is yet another jumbling twisty puzzle concept by Bram Cohen. He calls this 24-turning-axes puzzle a "corner-turning rhombicuboctahedr...
 
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Gear Head
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Gear Head is a 3D-printed replica of a human head, cut in four slices and connected by a gearing system. The object of the puzzle is to turn the he...
 
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Sweet Dream Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Sweet Dream Cube is a tribute to the Nightmare Cube by Adam Cowan, based on an idea by Noah. The Nightmare Cube is a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube with intern...
 
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Candy Wrapper
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Candy Wrapper is a six-piece burr with spiral parts. The six pieces intersect each other at two placed at a 90-degrees angle. Because of the looks ...
 
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Hollow Skewb
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Hollow Skewb is a cube-shaped twisty puzzle that is completely hollow inside. The puzzle has the geometry of a Skewb puzzle. The puzzle is construc...
 
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Markus Mystery Box
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Markus Mystery box is a solution to Markus Goetz' challenge: "can you make a solid mechanism with three axes in a plane going through the orig...
 
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Floppy 2x3x3 Replacement Core
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This part can be used to replace the core of your Floppy 2x3x3 in case you have accidentally broken it.
 
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Slice Gear Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Slice Gear Cube combines the geared moves of Geary Cube in two planes with slice moves (see e.g. Doctor Cube) in the third plane. The conical gears...
 
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Artistic Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Artistic Cube is a hollow Master Skewb. Half of the pieces are solid, whereas the other half can be looked through. The results is a playful puzzle...
 
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Maltese Gears
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Maltese Gears was suggested by Bram Cohen. It combines properties op Geared Mixup and Void Cube. It was named by José, after its Maltese Cross loo...
 
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