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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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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Please contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.

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

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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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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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Please contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered (uh, polaroided) and assembled sample of this puzzle.
 
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Ambigear Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Ambigear Cube combines the gearing mechanism of the Geared 1x1x4 with a regular 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube.
 
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Tracker Ball
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Tracker Ball is based on an idea by Bram Cohen. Tracker ball is a twisty puzzle that looks nothing like a Rubik's Cube. It has one big spherical gear with 20 teeth (icosahedron) and three small spherical gears with 8 holes (octahedron). The big sphere gear rolls like a tracker ball supported by the three smaller sphere gears that act like ball bearings.

In its solved state, the green tooth of the tracker ball is inside the green hole of one small ball, the red tooth of the tracker ball is inside the red hole of the second small ball, and the blue tooth of the tracker ball is inside the blue hole of the third small ball.

Watch the YouTube video of the new Shapeways version.
Watch the YouTube video of the original version, presented by Bram Cohen.

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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Rototribute
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Rototribute is a tribute to David Pitchers award-winning Rotoprism 2 puzzle. The two puzzles look the same. However, whereas Dave's implementation has three axes and uses deeper-than-origin cuts, this version by Oskar has nine axes and regular shallow cuts. The differences become apparent when scrambling the puzzle.Each puzzle has moves that are blocked in the other puzzle.

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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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Alternating Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Alternating Cube was suggested by Bram Cohen at the Twisty Puzzles Forum as follows: "Hey Oskar, can you design a 2x2x2 which must alternate clockwise and counterclockwise quarter turns?". Bram suggested to use the core of Alex Black Hole as a basis. To this, Oskar added the concept of the Enabler Cube. One corner, the "enabler", moves through the core in a CW-CCW fashion. The mechanism inside the core pins one of the corners to the core opposite of the "enabler".

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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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PantaBram
by Oskar_van_Deventer
PantaBram is Bram Cohen's variation to PantaCube, which is Oskar's variation to Pantazis Houlis' Cubedron. The puzzles has five pyramids that slide through grooves around a sphere. The groove pattern is an ultra-simple maze, suggested by Bram. Because of this maze, pieces can slide only one at a time (unlike regular twisty puzzles). This puzzles is very hard to solve, despite its low number of pieces.

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Please contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.
 
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Kilominx
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Kilominx is an idea by David Litwin. He built his first Kilominx as a mod of a commercial Megaminx puzzle. The object of this puzzle is the same as for Rubik's Cube: scramble and solve.

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Please contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.
 
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Number Planet
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Number Planet is a twisty puzzle based on the Mathieu 12 group. Rubik enthousiasts will discover that they need a new solving approach to tackle this puzzle. Read the full story here.

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Void 5x5x5
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Void 5x5x5 a variation of Okamoto's award-winning Void Cube, a Rubik's Cube with missing centers. This version is completely hollow as well, and it has 24 peep holes to see the spherical void inside.

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Gear Snake
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Gear Snake is a concatenation of four 2x2x2 Rubik's Cubes. The puzzle is build around four commercial 2x2x2 Eastsheen cubes. Because of the gears, the four 2x2x2's interact with eachother in a quite unexpected way.

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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 orientation and the black hexagons are broken. The object is to scramble the puzzle and then to get the puzzle back to its starting state.

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Please contact Oskar directly if you want to obtained a fully dyed and assembled sample of this puzzle.
 
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Geared Mixup
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Geared Mixup is a twisty-puzzle design requested by many people. When playing the original Gear Cube (Caution Cube), players can only make half turns because of the gears. Many people tried quarter turns in vain. Now it is possible, by combining the Gear Cube and Mixup Cube concepts. Geared Mixup has eight geared corners that drive twenty small 4-teeth gears.

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Even Less Gears! CAUTION EDGES ONLY
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Even Less Gears is a variation of my Gear Cube and Gear Cube Extreme, both produced by Mefferts.com. Gear Cube is a Rubik's Cube with 12 geared edges. Gear Cube Extreme is a more difficult version with only 8 geared edges. So why not taking this concept one step further and go for just four geared pieces?

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You can build your own Even Less Gears by buying a Gear Cube from Mefferts and add the eight non-geared pieces that you can buy from Shapeways at this page.
 
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Gear Octahedron
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Gear Octahedron is a variation to the Gear Cube. Where Gear Cube has 6 gears, this one has 24.

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This model is not for sale. Unfortunately, it turned out a bit delicate, with pieces occasionally falling out.
 
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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.

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Gear Skewb has the following parts.
-1x Set 1
-1x Set 2

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Bram's Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Bram's Cube is an idea by Bram Cohen to add eight gears to a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube. When the top is turned by a quarter, the gears turn by one eight. For solving this puzzle, not only the 2x2x2 has to be turned to its correct position, but also the gears. This gives a classical puzzle a whole new dimension.

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Gear Shift
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Gear Shift is based on an idea by Bram Cohen. This puzzle has eight gears around a cube. All gears can turn together. But it is also possible to pull the gears apart in two sets of four. Each set of four can be turned individually. And there are three ways to split the gears. The object of this puzzle is similar to Rubik's Cube: scramble it and then try to solve it.

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Please contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.

Or buy the mass-produced version of this puzzle is mefferts.com.
 
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Gift Cube
by Oskar_van_Deventer
Gift Cube is a fully functional Rubik's Cube with a spherical cavity inside. When solved, one layer comes off and the content can be removed from the cube.

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Watch Matthew and Mindy Farnsworth reenact their romantic proposal.
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Please contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.

Gift Cube is produced by Mefferts for Jade Club as Oskar's Treasure Chest.
 
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