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...
 
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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 "de...
 
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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 ...
 
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Mixup Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Now mass-produced by WitEden! Mixup Cube is like a Rubik's Cube, but with an unexpected twist. When a mid plane is turned by 45 degrees, other tur...
 
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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 s...
 
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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 co...
 
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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 pent...
 
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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...
 
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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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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...
 
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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. Watch the YouTube video Read at the Shapeways Forum Read ...
 
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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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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...
 
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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 ...
 
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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 st...
 
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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 ther...
 
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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. Watch th...
 
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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...
 
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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 ...
 
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Minimal Twist
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Now mass-produced by Recent Toys! Minimal Twist is a twisty puzzle, related to the Rubik's Cube. It is a very minimalistic, skeletal design,even w...
 
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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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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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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...
 
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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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Anisotropic Cube. CAUTION EDGES ONLY
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Now mass-produced by Mefferts! CAUTION: FOUR SPECIAL EDGES ONLY. Anisotropic Cube is a modification of Oskar's Gear Cube that is being sold by Mef...
 
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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 ...
 
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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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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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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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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...
 
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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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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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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. Watch the YouTube video
 
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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....
 
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Knot Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Knot Cube are eight cubes connected by corner hinges, made of nylon "fishing" wire. The object is to make a 2x2x2 cube and various other shapes. W...
 
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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.

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