Tom's Puzzles

Designs by TomZ

Free stickers with your purchase

SPECIAL OFFER: For a limited time only, I am offering FREE STICKERS with your purchase from my shop. After ordering, simply send me an email and I will send you your stickers via regular mail. Please read more about this offer on twistypuzzles.com.

Welcome to the Shapeways shop of Tom van der Zanden. I started desinging twisty puzzles in 2008. After a year of teaching myself of how to use design software and making a few puzzles using other services, I discovered Shapeways and started offering my puzzles there.
Since I am a student (at the time of opening my shop I was in high school still) I do not have much money to afford prototyping my own puzzles. However, the markup from the sales of my puzzles has allowed me to sustain making my own designs. I am very grateful to Shapeways and to the many collectors who purchased my puzzles for enabling me to make so many designs.

The items offered on this shop are "DIY kits". The include all the 3D printed plastic parts to build your own puzzle, but do not include the necessary screws or stickers. Shapeways can not currently provide these.
By default the 'white' material is seleted. If you want a puzzle with a black body you can either order the black material which is slightly more expensive, or order the white version and dye it yourself using Dylon #8 Ebony Black or one of RIT's fabric dyes.
If you do not want to build your own puzzle you can also contact me (tom@tomvanderzanden.nl) to purchase an assembled puzzle which will be slightly more expensive than the ones from Shapeways.

Please visit my website www.tomvanderzanden.nl for more information on my puzzles!

We found 28 products by TomZ

by TomZ
This is the Chimera, a puzzle suggested by twistypuzzles forum member pytlivyj_1 inspired on Tony Fisher's V-Dome. It is half of a 4x4 combined wit...
 
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This is the 6x6x7 cuboid. The turning is very nice and the puzzle is quite stable. This puzzle comes as a DIY kit. You will need to provide your o...
 
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by TomZ
The 3x4x5 has been mass produced! Get one for just $32 (free shipping!) from Mefferts.com Finally! A fully functional 3x4x5 puzzle is now availabl...
 
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by TomZ
This is the Multidodecahedron. A puzzle that has all the parts from the Megaminx, Pyraminx Crystal, Starminx, Master Pentultimate and Pentultimate ...
 
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by TomZ
The 4x5x6 Cuboid is the next step up from my 3x4x5. This puzzle was made at the request of Sigurd Wedel. Just like the 3x4x5 this one shapeshifts ...
 
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by TomZ
A 3x3x3 that can only do 180 degree turns on all faces has already been made by Hidetoshi Takeji and a variant is for sale in Oskar's Shop. A varia...
 
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by TomZ
The Curvy Copter has been mass produced and is now available at Meffert's Puzzles & Games. The price is $18 for a black or white puzzle with WORLDW...
 
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by TomZ
This is my version of the Master FTO originally designed by Timur. For a detailed writeup on the history of this puzzle and a full review visit the...
 
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by TomZ
About this puzzleThe SuperX was first made by Adam Cowan in December 2006. However, the puzzle was very squishy and the pieces would get out of ali...
 
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by TomZ
This fully working 12mm 3x3x3 Cube is nearly five times smaller than the original Rubik's Cube - it is far smaller than just a single cubelet of it...
 
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by TomZ
 This puzzle was suggested by Andreas Nortmann. His explanation was as follows:Andreas Nortmann wrote:I have just another stupid design reques...
 
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by TomZ
This is the Dino 3x3x3, a puzzle that combines the cuts from two classic puzzles: the Rubik's Cube and the Dino Cube. This puzzle took a lot of tim...
 
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Shop Details
I love solving and designing weird twisty puzzles. In my shop you can buy some of my confusing creations.