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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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Arrow Planet READ INSTRUCTIONS
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Arrow Planet is a twisty puzzle with 52 arrowed squares moving around a sphere. But also the sphere parts can turn. This puzzle combines jumbling, ...
 
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Framed Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Framed Cube is a hollow 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube with a visible 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube inside. So you do not only have to solve the outer surface, but the in...
 
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Gear Skewb READ INSTRUCTIONS
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Gear Skewb is based on the well-known tetrahedral/octahedral Skewb geometry. Twenty-four gears guide the rotation of this puzzle. Watch the YouTub...
 
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Half Turn Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Half Turn Cube is a Rubik's Cube that only allows half turns. This makes it a different puzzle that is easier to solve. It was contrived by Takafum...
 
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Squashed Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Squashed Cube looks like a Rubik's Cube after being squeezed together in a vice. The six faces turn sort-of-like a Rubik's Cube, but in a very band...
 
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Fractal Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Fractal Cube is a twisty puzzle, related to Rubik's Cube. When solved, it is completely flat. While scrambling and solving, it swivels in all direc...
 
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Crazy Comet
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Crazy Comet is a twisty puzzle related to Rubik's Cube. This one is based on a rhombododecahedron. Additional info for twisty-puzzle experts: Crazy...
 
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Rotabram
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Rotabram is a Doug-Engel-style flat twisty puzzle, conceived and designed by Bram Cohen and me. When parts are turned, the small gears are changing...
 
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Meteor Madness
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Meteor Madness is a twisty puzzle like Rubik's Cube. It is based on Bram Cohen's "jumble" concept, where the geometry is no longer isomet...
 
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Personalize your Treasure Chest
by Oskar_van_Deventer
CAUTION: CENTER ONLY! This custom center goes with Oskar's Treasure Chest, produced by Mefferts. You can remove one center and replace it with a cu...
 
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Simplicity
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Simplicity is the brilliant design of sliding-piece guru Jimmy Stephens from Atlanta. Using a computer search and a genetic algorithm, he discovere...
 
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Connected Cubes 3x3x3
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This project is still looking for a sponsor. The benefits of being a sponsor are that your name will forever be associated with this puzzle, and th...
 
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Bram's Square
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Bram's Square is an idea by Bram Cohen. Take a 3x4 rectangle of which each of the 3x3 sub-squares can be rotated. Well, actually, Bram wanted a 5x6...
 
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Gift Pyramid
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Gift Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped twisty puzzle that can be taken apart when solved. It has a little spherical cavity that can contain a small objec...
 
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Crazy Six
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Crazy Six is a twisty puzzle, related to Rubik's Cube. It looks like a 6x6x6, but with some circular faces. When turning, the faces seem strangely ...
 
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Hexed Mixup
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Hexed Mixup was inspired by the 7-Color Magic Puzzle (aka: Massage Ball) by Otto Wu. I saw this puzzle when I visited Claus Wenicker. The completio...
 
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AntiCube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
AntiCube was suggested by Jason Smith. It has the geometry of a square antiprism. Some fudging was needed to make everything fit. This twisty puzzl...
 
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H-Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
H-Cube is a twisty puzzle, related to the Rubik's Cube. It is possible to turn the H as a whole, its two legs and its four leg ends. If you get th...
 
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Six-to-Three
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Six to Three is a six-banded puzzle ring, designed by Bram Cohen On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Bram wrote to Oskar: "Hey Oskar, I came up with...
 
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UNSCRAMBLED
by Oskar_van_Deventer
UNSCRAMBLED is a twisty puzzle of the Hockey Puck type. The object is to scramble it en then try and get it UNSCRAMBLED. This puzzle is extremely d...
 
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Slice Kilominx
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Slice Kilominx is Bram Cohen's variation on David Litwin's Kilominx idea. In this twisty puzzle, bands of ten corners are turned around the inner s...
 
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Astroid Attack
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Astroid Attack is a twisty puzzle like Rubik's Cube. It is based on Bram Cohen's "jumble" concept, where the geometry is no longer isomet...
 
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Bram's Black Hole
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This puzzle has nine cubes moving through a frame. The object is to get all colors right.The design is inspired by an idea from Bram Cohen, hence t...
 
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Rising Sun
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Rising Sun is a take-apart puzzle: remove the sun from the cloud. It is like a maze to solve.Watch the YouTube video Read at the Shapeways Forum Re...
 
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Moby Maze
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Moby Maze is a mechanical maze based on a Mobius Strip. Half of the maze is at one side, the other half is, well, at the same side. The object is t...
 
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YouCube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
YouCube is a twisty puzzle in the shape of the letter "U". A dovetail connection keeps the two square faces together. Also the three side...
 
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Uncanny Mixup
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Uncanny Mixup combines concepts from the Uncanny Cube and the Mixup Cube.This combination was suggested by Bram Cohen, who also came up with the Un...
 
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Connectivity
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Connectivityis a mechanical puzzle maze. The object is to move the five rings from the base of the puzzle to the top. There is a catch: the rings h...
 
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Variomatic Cube Demo
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This puzzling mechanism is a demo model to show how the Variomatic Cube works. The mechanism has four identical gears meshing with each other. The ...
 
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Cubes on a Disk READ INSTRUCTIONS
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Cubes on a Disk a two 4x4x4 Rubik's Cubes connected on a disk. The two cubes can exchange parts by turning the disk and bringing one half of one cu...
 
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Holistic Ring
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Holistic Ring was designed by Bram Cohen. He decided to come up with a design which has a nice holistic finishing move. As all rings part together ...
 
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Zygmunt's Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Zygmunt's Cube is based on an idea by Zygmunt Kurczewski. Zygmunt suggested a 2x2x2 cube with an additional 12 edge pairs, each of which could rota...
 
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Hex Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Hex Cube is a twisty puzzle with ten squares and eight triangles. The puzzle has two hexagonal cross-sections and one four-fold symmetry. It is har...
 
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Dino Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Dino Cube is a classic cube design from the 1980's, designed by ... Watch the YouTube video. Please contact Oskar directly if you are interested ...
 
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Khaled's Time Machine
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Khaled's Time Machine was suggested by Khaled Habbab. His idea combines Polo Gear Cube (conceived by Alex Polonsky) and Time Machine (by Li Chung M...
 
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Polo Gears
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Polo Gears is a puzzle invented by Alex Polonsky. After seeing his prototype, I asked whether I could build my own prototype. This puzzle is turne...
 
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