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Oskar Puzzles

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Oskar Puzzles offers mechanical puzzles and objects that can only exist thanks to 3D printing technologies. All designed by M. Oskar van Deventer.  Since 1978, he has been creating hundreds of mechanical puzzles, making him one of the world's most prolific designers. Several of his innovative designs are commercially available, including Oskar's Cube, a metal maze cube that is completely hollow inside.

Check out Oskar's YouTube channel (Youku for China) for his latest creations or join his official fan club.

Order 3D-printed do-it-yourself puzzle kits from Shapeways at this page (and check with Oskar about screws and stickers), or contact Oskar directly if you want to buy a fully dyed, assembled and stickered puzzle.

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Over The Top - 17x17x17 READ INSTRUCTIONS
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Over The Top is a world-record 17x17x17 Rubik's Cube. It makes quite pretty patterns. It can take many, many hours to solve. The puzzle was first presented live to the world at  at the New York Puzzle Party Symposium, Saturday Feb. 12th. The YouTube video was be published after that event, and the record was accepted by Guinness World Records.

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The complete Over The Top 17x17x17 puzzle requires
-1x Set 1
-26 x Set 2
(Actually, you need only 24x Set 2, but it is strongly advised to order some spare parts.)

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Impossible Twist
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Impossible Twist is a twisty puzzle, inspired by the impossible dovetail object. As its cut crosses the equator, the mechanism is classified as "deeper-than-origin". The puzzle is very easy to solve, as it cannot be scrambled that much.

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Read at the Shapeways Forum.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.

Please order a 3D-printed do-it-yourself puzzle kit from Shapeways at this page (check with Oskar about screws and stickers), or contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.
 
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Deep Penta
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Deep Penta is a design inspired by the "deeper-than-origin" discussion at the Twisty Puzzles Forum, triggered by David Pitcher's RotoPrism 2.

The purpose of the big hole in one of the corners is to show that the mechanism of the puzzle is deeper-than-origin. However, only two deeper-than-origin rotations are enabled (two screws at the inside). Some shallow rotations are enabled too (screws visible at the outside), but not all. This makes the puzzle confusing to solve, as sometimes rotations are blocked. The screws are kept visible to reduce that confusion again.

There is something paradoxal about "deeper-than-origin". This puzzle is deeper-than-origin, because only some of the cuts are deeper-than-origin. If all cuts were deeper-than-origin, then the puzzle itself would no longer be classified as deeper-than-origin. Strange, isn't it?

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Please order a 3D-printed do-it-yourself puzzle kit from Shapeways at this page (check with Oskar about screws and stickers), or contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.
 
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Mixup Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Mixup Cube is like a Rubik's Cube, but with an unexpected twist. When a mid plane is turned by 45 degrees, other turns are possible. This way of turning mixes up the center and edge pieces. Although the concept has already been patented in 1985 by Sergey Makarov, this version has an internal 2x2x2 "cube" for extra stability.

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Watch the YouTube video of version 2.
Watch the YouTube video of version 3 (this).
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More Madness
by Oskar_van_Deventer
More Madness is a deeper cut version of Meteor Madness, both of which are based on the geometry of a Triangular Di-pyramid. Bram Cohen calls this strange type of shape shifting "jumbling".

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Mixup 2x4x4
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Mixup 2x4x4 looks like an "ordinary" 2x4x4 twisty puzzle. It is not. This puzzle can be mixed up in all kinds of unexpected directions.

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Hollow Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Hollow Cube is a Rubik's Cube that has been made as hollow as possible. The pieces are held together by dovetail connections. Because the puzzle consists mainly of air, it is very affordable.

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Fairly Fudged
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Fairly Fudged is based on the same strange geometry as the Fairly Twisted puzzle elsewhere in the OskarPuzzles shop. In this version, also the pentagonal face can turn. This required a bit of fudging, hence the name of this puzzle.

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Get Stuck Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Get Stuck Cube is a puzzle with an unusual challenge: the goal is to get stuck! The puzzle has a set of sliding pieces, sliding on the surface of a Rubik's Cube. Six of the sliding pieces are double size. They act like a movable bandage. As a Rubik's Cube has six turning faces, it should be possible to block each turn and to get stuck.

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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, fudging and sliding.

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A complete Arrow Planet requires the following parts.
-1x Set 1
-2x Set 2

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Cooksey Maze
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Cooksey Maze is a maze concept invented by an Englishman named "Mr. Richard Cooksey" in the 1970's. An evolved metal+plastic version with springs and pins was prototyped by Pentangle, but it was never taken in production. Oskar has been trying to locate Cooksey for quite some time, as the original "Cooksey Cilinder" has been an inspiration for many of Oskar's puzzle designs. This is a modified version of the original Cooksey Cylinder with a much simplified mechanism.

Earn a free Cooksey Maze if you can bring Oskar in contact with the original inventor of this maze concept. We know nothing more than his name, the fact that he is an Englishman, and that he already was an adult in the 1970's. Also the people who operated Pentangle in the 1970's do not have more identifying information.

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Also posted at the Renegade Puzzlers Forum (subscription required).

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Canny Uncube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
This twisty puzzle is an idea of Bram Cohen. It is like a Rubik's Cube, but with a twist.

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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 isometric and faces do not turn in regular steps of 360/N degrees. The size (volume) of this puzzle is the same as a 6x6x6 cm Rubik's Cube.

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Alex Black Hole
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Alex Black Hole is based on a sliding-cube idea by Alex Polonsky. There are seven cubes around a sphere with grooves. The object is to scramble the puzzle by sliding the cubes, and then solve the puzzle.

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Twist & Slide
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Rubik's Cube and the 14-15 sliding square puzzle are the most popular mechanical puzzles of the 20th and 19th century, respectively. What could be more obvious than combining those two ideas and have a sliding piece puzzle on the faces of a (2x2x2) Rubik's Cube? Here you see the result. The object is to scramble the puzzle and then to twist & slide the tiles back to their original position and orientation.

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The Heptagon
by Oskar_van_Deventer
The Heptagon is a twisty puzzle of the "Hockey Puck" type. It has seven-fold symmetry and it jumbles, which results in some unexpected states and moves.

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Jack's Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Jack's Cube was suggested by Jack via YouTube. The design was inspired on the Magic Sphere puzzle. Jack's Cube has three types of moves. First there are the conventional Rubik's turns. Secondly, a circle of nine pieces can turn in steps of 90 degrees. Finally, a great circle of 12 pieces can turn in steps of 30 degrees.

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Overlap Cube 2x2x23
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Overlap Cube is a 2x2x23 Rubik's Cube, styled like overlapping roof tiles. It is currently the higest order twisty puzzle ever produced.

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Turn Apart
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Turn Apart is similar to a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube. However, its faces are connected by dovetail connections. On the one hand, this blocks some types of movements. On the other hand, it enables the puzzle to be taken apart, as there is a majority of female dovetails.

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The Pentagon
by Oskar_van_Deventer
The Pentagon is a pentagonal equivalent of the 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube. The pieces are a bit hollowed out so they can turn smoothly over and under each other.

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Minimal Twist
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Minimal Twist is a twisty puzzle, related to the Rubik's Cube. It is a very minimalistic, skeletal design,even without stickers. The parts are held together by dovetail connections.The puzzle has the geometry of the Skewb puzzle.

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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 constructed by taking a Minimal Twist puzzle and adding eight shallow pyramid-shaped plugs. Frank Tiex and Carl Hoff came up with the suggestion to add plugs.

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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 constructed by taking a Minimal Twist puzzle and adding six pyramid-shaped plugs. Frank Tiex and Carl Hoff came up with the suggestion to add plugs.

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Distorted Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Distorted Cube is a Rubik's Cube that has its faces set at 92 degrees. As a consequence of this distortion, it turns differently from a doctrinaire Rubik's Cube. For the experts: this puzzles jumbles.

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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 make this design work.

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Anisotropic Cube. CAUTION EDGES ONLY
by Oskar_van_Deventer
CAUTION: FOUR SPECIAL EDGES ONLY. Anisotropic Cube is a modification of Oskar's Gear Cube that is being sold by Mefferts.com. Buy a Gear Cube and replace four of the gearing edges by these four pieces. The result is a puzzle that has all the gearing fun of Gear Cube, but much harder to solve.

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These are just the four special pieces. If you want to buy the full puzzle, assembled and sticked, then search the internet for Mefferts and "Gear Cube Extreme".
 
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Floppy 2x3x3
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Floppy 2x3x3 is a tribute to Katsuhiko Okamoto's brilliant and award-winning Floppy Cube. Floppy 2x3x3 works like a normal 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube, but with one face completely removed.

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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 difficult. It is the result of a collaboration between Bram Cohen, Oskar van Deventer and George Miller.

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Read also at Puzzle Palace

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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.

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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 rectangle, but even a 3x4 would already be extremely difficult to solve. The movement is slide-turn-slide-slide, repeat ...

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Void 6x6x6 READ INSTRUCTIONS
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Void 6x6x6 is a twisty puzzle, inspired by Katsuhiko Okamoto's famous Void Cube, a hollow version of Rubik's Cube. This 6x6x6 version introduces a completely new way of turning, in which edges turn into the cube.

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Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum

A complet Void 6x6x6 requires
1x Set 1
1x Set 2
1x Set 3

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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 sides and the small cubies can turn.

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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 hard to describe all the possible twists of this puzzle.

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Knotted Gear
by Oskar_van_Deventer
These are two knots linked together. The two knots turn though eachother in a gearing motion in a 2x3 ratio.

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Polaroid Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Polaroid Cube was suggested by Landon Kryger. It is a hollow spherical 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube. However, instead of stickers, it uses polarizing filter. The object is to turn the puzzle and make all three directions opaque.

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Knot Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Knot Cube are eight cubes connected by corner hinges. The object is to make a 2x2x2 cube and various other shapes.

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Please order a 3D-printed do-it-yourself puzzle kit from Shapeways at this page (check with Oskar about the nylon wire), or contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.
 
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