QuirkyCube Puzzle

QuirkyCube

The QuirkyCube is among my first original designs, created with Alibre CAD in early 2010 and prototyped on a Stratasys FDM machine by Claus Wenicker. The black, green, and red stickering scheme was suggested by Luke from TwistyPuzzle.com.

New copies are for sale for $50 at QuirkyCubes.com.

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Description (by Andreas Nortmann)

At first glance, this puzzle looks like a Square-1, but to fully describe it, one has to enumerate all the differences compared to the Square-1:

• The puzzle has five layers.
• There is not a single central layer consisting of two pieces. Instead, layers two and four represent the core and are connected.
• With three layers of pieces, it combines two puzzles: a Square-1-like puzzle with two effective layers, and a (bandaged) puck-like puzzle with one effective layer.
• The puzzle is derived from a prism with 14 sectors, not 12 as in the Square-1.
• Two pairs of pieces in layers one, three, and five are bandaged into one piece each.
• Spherical (rather than planar) cuts are used in the puzzle.
• The axis system of the puzzle is tilted inside the cube.