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Designs by richgain
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Seriously tough puzzles
Wooden puzzles are beautiful to look at but can be large and heavy. Puzzles are meant to be played with and shared. These 3D printed puzzles in tough nylon or solid stainless steel are great to play with and easy to carry around in a pocket.  The puzzles range in difficulty from quite easy to fiendishly difficult and, unless stated, are all my own design. Puzzles work best in White, Strong and Flexible material.
If you would prefer coloured puzzles then you have three choices:
- Order in one of Shapeways standard seasonal colours
- Order white ones and dye them yourself
- Order directly from me through my Etsy shop.

Please note that Shapeways only print the pieces. You will need to work out how to fit the puzzle together. YouTube videos are available for many puzzles to help you with this.

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Cubed Burr II
by richgain
This is a very clever puzzle designed by Tom Jolly, who will receive a share of profits from any sales. It has the mechanism of a burr puzzle insid...
 
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Happiness Cube
by richgain
Happiness Cube #20 (2.1cm). This is a brilliant 6x6x6 cube by Japanese puzzle designer, Sekog Yukiyasu. This is a level 30 puzzle (15.4.3.6.2) whi...
 
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Curly Corner Convolution Cube
by richgain
Convolution is a seven piece serially interlocking puzzle designed by Stewart Coffin, probably the greatest ever puzzle designer. Stewart has gener...
 
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Tom''s Springy Little Box
by richgain
A really lovely 3 x 3 x 3 interlocking cube that takes two sliding moves to get the first piece out and three more to get the second out - unusuall...
 
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Twist the night away (S)
by richgain
I am delighted to be able to present one of the most original interlocking cube puzzles to be designed for many years. Once again, Tom Jolly has ki...
 
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Seldom Complex Cube
by richgain
The Seldom Seen Cube made from Complex Cubelets.Each unit cube is composed of two interlocked parts - the rings on the six faces are joined into a ...
 
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Complex Cube 2cm
by richgain
A bizarre construction cube that may or may not have a use.
 
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Complex Cube 3cm
by richgain
 
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TwinCurlCornerCross
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Switch Cube 5cm
by richgain
A much larger version of the popular Switch Cube, made possible by the new version of Burr Tools which supports hollow pieces.
 
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Switch Cube (3 cm)
by richgain
This is Quinsequential Gamma (3 cm) the third version of the Quinsequential design. Quinsequential Alpha required 9 separate moves before the first...
 
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Thin MetaBuckyBall
by richgain
Buckyballs are molecules of 60 carbon atoms called Buckminsterfullerene.Metabuckyballs are buckyballs made using metaball modelling software (Blend...
 
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Fat Metabuckyball
by richgain
Buckyballs are molecules of 60 carbon atoms called Buckminsterfullerene.Metabuckyballs are buckyballs made using metaball modelling software (Blend...
 
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Christmas swirl
by richgain
These strange mathematical shapes make rather lovely Christmas decorations. Each loop appears to consists of five twisted strands but, in fact, the...
 
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Springy Cube
by richgain
A hollow cube shape based on 13x13x13 1mm cubelets.The design replaces the straight edge between each cube vertex with a long folded spring. The Wh...
 
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4 Springy Cubes
by richgain
Four hollow cube shapes based on 13 x 13 x 13 1mm cubelets.The design replaces the straight edge between each cube vertex with a long folded spring...
 
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Triaxial piece (2cm)
by richgain
The Triaxial Cube puzzle consists of three identical pieces. This single piece is designed for the White Strong and Flexible material. You will nee...
 
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Cubic Trisection #7
by richgain
You will need to order three of these pieces to make a complete cube.Designed by Robert Reid.
 
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Triaxial in metal
by richgain
This is a 1.6 cm version of Triaxial containing all 3 pieces of the puzzle. It is based on 4mm unit cubes with slightly larger tolerances which mak...
 
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Switch Cube (1.5cm)
by richgain
This is Quinsequential Gamma (1.5 cm) the third version of the Quinsequential design. Quinsequential Alpha required 9 separate moves before the fir...
 
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Szilassi polyhedron coloured
by richgain
The Szilassi polyhedron is a seven-sided torus where every face is in contact with all of the other faces, proving that for toroidal topology, 7 di...
 
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Triaxial piece (2cm)
by richgain
The Triaxial Cube puzzle consists of three identical pieces. This single piece is designed for the White, Black or Transparent Detail material. You...
 
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Switch Cube (3.5cm)
by richgain
This is Quinsequential Gamma (3.5 cm) the third version of the Quinsequential design. Quinsequential Alpha required 9 separate moves before the fir...
 
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MetaBuckyBall
by richgain
Buckyballs are molecules of 60 carbon atoms called Buckminsterfullerene.Metabuckyballs are buckyballs made using metaball modelling software (Blend...
 
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Lock Nested Burr 4.5mm
by richgain
Bram Cohen's design, modelled in Burr Tools, modified in Blender, printed in Alumide. Quite a striking piece, wouldn't you agree?
 
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Crusty spiral cross cube
by richgain
 
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Steel spiral cross cube
by richgain
 
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Complex cube 3
by richgain
This complex cube consists of two separate parts interlocked. The central core can move freely and even rotate inside the surrounding cage. Modelle...
 
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Imogen Heap Tree
by richgain
This model of the Imogen Heap stage show tree was based on the logo on a T-shirt I bought at the Royal Albert Hall concert in November 2010. The ba...
 
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Steel tanglehedron
by richgain
This complex shape was designed on a computer using TopMod 2, and then 3D printed in stainless steel. It is based on a simple tetrahedron where eac...
 
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Complex cube 4-8
by richgain
This complex cube consists of a single piece. Each corner of the cube is connected to its neighbours by a tortuous path that can be traced through ...
 
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Complex cube 4-9
by richgain
A tangled complex cube consisting of two interlocked tetrahedra.Modelled in TopMod.
 
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Complex 2-7 cube
by richgain
A complex cube consisting of a central cross-shaped core and a surrounding shell. The aim of this piece was to give the maximum freedom of movement...
 
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4 piece springy cube
by richgain
A serially interlocking 3x3x3 cube made from springy cubelets. Perfect snug fit every time. Not too difficult to solve.Original puzzle design by St...
 
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Complex 2-8 cube
by richgain
 
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EFFORT keytag
by richgain
 
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Complex interlocking puzzle cubes from some of the world's top puzzle designers. Please use the messaging link to contact me for any special requests.

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