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Happy Cube: flat foam tiles with tabs, beside a completed hollow cube

ハッピーキューブ:6枚の平面が立方体になる

Flat foam that folds into a cube with no glue and no frame. The grid behind the shapes is the reason it holds together at all.

ハッピーキューブ:6枚の平面が立方体になる

Flat foam that folds into a cube with no glue and no frame. The grid behind the shapes is the reason it holds together at all.

An Altekruse puzzle split into two halves slid apart in opposite directions

アルテクルーゼ:12個の同じピース

A man whose surname means old cross patented a cross-shaped puzzle in 1890. Experienced burr solvers routinely lose their first half hour to it.

アルテクルーゼ:12個の同じピース

A man whose surname means old cross patented a cross-shaped puzzle in 1890. Experienced burr solvers routinely lose their first half hour to it.

A Square-1 turned out of cube shape, showing kite and triangle pieces

スクエア1:キューブでなくなるパズル

Every other twisty puzzle stays the shape it started. This one turns into something unrecognisable on the second move, and that is the design working.

スクエア1:キューブでなくなるパズル

Every other twisty puzzle stays the shape it started. This one turns into something unrecognisable on the second move, and that is the design working.

A Mirror Cube: all one gold colour with blocks of different sizes

ミラーキューブ:同じ色、違う大きさ

One colour, nine different sizes, and a surface that goes lumpy the moment you scramble it. The algorithms are the same ones you already know.

ミラーキューブ:同じ色、違う大きさ

One colour, nine different sizes, and a surface that goes lumpy the moment you scramble it. The algorithms are the same ones you already know.

A Gear Cube: a twisty puzzle whose edges are meshing gears

ギアキューブ:180度しか回らない

A twisty puzzle whose first production name was a warning about getting your fingers caught. It turns in half-turns only, and that is the whole design.

ギアキューブ:180度しか回らない

A twisty puzzle whose first production name was a warning about getting your fingers caught. It turns in half-turns only, and that is the whole design.

A brass puzzle padlock with a hidden sliding stud in its body

トリックロック:鍵穴が嘘をつく南京錠

A lock whose keyhole is a decoy. The honest ones are two thousand years old, and the marketing around them is frequently nonsense.

トリックロック:鍵穴が嘘をつく南京錠

A lock whose keyhole is a decoy. The honest ones are two thousand years old, and the marketing around them is frequently nonsense.