Bramboules is an invention by Bram Cohen, inspired by the Cmetric puzzle. A gearing system enforces that all balls have to be turned in some direction simultaneously. This makes the puzzle quite confusing. Instead of the conventional way of solving a twisty puzzle part by part, this puzzle requires a holistic approach.

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Out of the Box is a seemingly simple three piece puzzle. However, it requires out-of-the-box thinking to solve it.

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The puzzle comes in three sizes.
Small: 3.5 x 18 x 27.5 mm
Medium: 7 x 36 x 55 mm (THIS)
Large: 14 x 72 x 110 mm

If you have guessed the solution of this puzzle, then PLEASE be so kind NOT to post it. This will give other the opportunity to think out of the box as well. Thank you.

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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 bandaged - jumbling - way. The middle slices are at an angle of 60 degrees from each other. This way, the hexagons in the center of each face can change position and orientation. This makes this puzzle very hard to solve.

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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 completion of the design was triggered by the HexaMixUp idea by Krystian Wilisowski. The puzzle has three types of moves: rotation of a side, rotation of the top half and rotation of a central slice. Ever though this puzzle does not jumble and it is not fudged either, solving it is rather complex due to the reorientation of the (partially unbandaged) hexagons.

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Spiral Burr is a six-piece burr of interlocking spirals. Next to sliding and rotation, spiraling is the third fundamental way of turning pieces in an interlocking puzzle. The spirals are notched. The object is putting the puzzle back together after turning it apart.

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PlaySpirals is a construction toy, which can be used to build three-dimensional structures. PlaySpirals are a specially designed corkscrew-type of spirals. Two PlaySpirals can be put through each other at a straight 90-degrees angle. A third PlaySpiral can then be put through the first two. The full set has 28 spirals, the largest number that fitted with a single Shapeways model.

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Mosaic Block is a twisty puzzle with a novel geometry, discovered by Anthony Villaveiran. Unlike classical twisty puzzles, here the axes do not go through the same point. As a consequence, some pieces can shift position after some turns. Several people have contributed to the design of this puzzle in a discussion on the Twisty Puzzles Forum. Read the full story below.

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=== The story behind this puzzle ===

Anthony Villaveiran proposed an original idea that he called a Compy/Dino Cubiod at the Twisty Puzzles Forum. He proposed several versions of what were later called a G1x2x2 by varying the planar cut depth, and even using spherical cuts. However, he didn't have a mechanism for this puzzle and offered this invitation.. "if some one else would like to take a swing at this please feel free". At that point Carl Hoff jumped in.  He pointed out this puzzle could be made with Mosaic Cut styling. He also proposed a potential mechanism for this puzzle, proving that this puzzle does not need fudging. If we call Anthony's original design an order=2 puzzle, as two edges in all directions rotate with each corner, it was Carl that realized these same pieces could be used to make a "G1x1x2". Now having exploited all possible order=2 puzzles with this technique it was Landon Kryger who first made the jump order=3 puzzles with his sketch of the G1x2x3.  Carl then generalized his mech for this order=3 puzzle as shown here and here. 

Following the ideas by Anthony, Carl and Landon, Oskar van Deventer designed this Mosaic Block, a Mosaic Cube-styled G1x2x3.

=== End of story - for now ===

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Bubbles-in-a-plane was inspired by ideas from Anthony Villaveiran and Carl Hoff, posted at the Twisty Puzzles Forum. Unlike a convention Engel's Enigma, the rotating parts do not have sixfold symmetry and they are unequally spaced. The result is a quite confusing puzzle that jumbles (bubbles?) and is fudged. The name of the puzzle hints to Antony's nickname "Boublez".

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Bubble Block was inspired by ideas from Anthony "Bubbles" Villaveiran and Carl Hoff, posted at the Twisty Puzzles Forum. Four of the corners of this puzzle can turn, taking the other pieces with them. The puzzle has a quite unusual geometry. It jumbles, it is fudged and is is "boublezized".

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4Cubes is based on an idea by Tony Fisher (and a parallel invention by Sergey Abramenkov). It uses a simplified version of the YouCube mechanism. The puzzle looks like four Rubik's Cubes on a ring. The slices of each of the four cubes turn, but it is also possible to swap around little cubies between the four big cubes.

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Chilen Cube was suggested by Chilen Chen on the Twisty Puzzles Forum. It can be considered a deep-cut Pentagonal Prism.

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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 challenge is first to fill the cup and then to drink it empty, both without spilling.

Magnetic version for Vladimir Iaroslavski, inspired by the mech version by Mike Armbrust.

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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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Buy the parts from Vladimir's Shapeways Shop.

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Size 8, 18.54 mm inner diameter. Innovative five-band ring design by Bram Cohen.
Metal version <-- THIS
Nylon version

Watch the YouTube video of the nylon version.

Other puzzle rings designed by Bram:
Sixth Sense
Take Five
Cross Rings

Krystian's Twist is an idea by Krystian Wilisowski, which he posted at the Twisty Puzzles Forum. Krystian worked out how to turn a tridiminished icosahedron into a jumbling twisty puzzle. Actually, his version was more complex with four slices. Carl Hoff suggested that even the jumbling three-slice puzzle could be interesting. By playing this puzzle, Oskar discovered that the puzzle has a very nice 7-step jumbling-move sequence.

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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 easier to understand. Moreover, one can see the orientation of the four corners, which gives a (false?) sense of direction.

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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 the attached puzzle ring design the other day. This one is also taking things in a different direction, in that it's six bands where each one is linked to the three which it isn't next to, and everything comes apart easily, sort of the opposite of the other new one I sent you where each band is connected specifically to the ones next to it and it only comes apart via a holistic move. I'm not sure how this one discombobulates, and have no idea how hard it might be."

As we learned from the prototype, the answer is "very hard".

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Fudball was inspired by the Soccer Slide puzzle, designed and built by Iwona Gorczyca. Iwona's original design has sliding rhombusses and isosceles triangles. Each of the six great circles can be turned in steps of 72 degrees. By fudging a bit, Oskar turned all pieces into equilateral triangles, allowing 24 degrees steps.

The puzzle is related to the Doctor Skewb by Carl Hoff, which also features intersecting great curcles of tokens around a sphere. Whereas Carls's design has four intersecting great circles, Fudball has six.

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Unfortunately, it takes rather much force to push the tiles. For this reason, the puzzle is not for sale with Shapeways. Please contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.

This is an extrusion plate to build Oskar's vanity pasta. This plate fits with a Lagrange  429001 pasta machine. The machine + plate spews out pasta with Oskar's signature.

Unfortunately, the experiment did not work out, as you can see on the YouTube video

Cold Fusion is a six-piece burr, but not a classic one. The pieces are helical and the puzzle is taken apart and put together by pushing the pieces in a helical motion.

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Arch Burr is a six-piece burr, but not a regular one. Six bent pieces intersect each other at two different places.

Bit and Pieces produced a batch of metal Arch Burr in the past, but these seem to be sold out.

CAUTION: HINGES ONLY. These hinged parts go with Oskar's Treasure Chest, produced by Mefferts. This way, you can open your puzzle like a hinged box.

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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 simultaneously when mixing up this puzzle ring, it is quite hard to get it back together again, as you have to reverse the holistic move.

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