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I've been a great fan of Rubik type puzzles, since I got an original rubiks cube for my 14th birthday, in 1980.
Lost interest though for some years, and gave my beloved puzzles away to my dads workmate, for his kids.
Got into collecting in a big way, after finding a Rubiks Mate in our local charity shop going for a quid ! and have picked up various bargains, at dozens of charity shops, boosting my collection with the odd ebay auction or 50 ( under my pseudonym Pomperberry).
have just today acquired a 10 billion master barrel on ebay, and am waiting to get a diamond skewb, for believe it or not, my 37th birthday from my parents :)
I have an understanding but baffled husband, who can't even solve the 3 x 3 rubiks , and already 2 display cases full of puzzles, which I have solved mostly, but they mysteriously end up mixed up again. I suspect my husband, but can't prove it.

would love to get some of the more unusual puzzles, and still dream of owning one day, a dogic, a rubiks domino,a rubiks rabbit, and an octahedron. have tried and missed several ebay auctions for these, but will keep hoping.
great that there is such an active community around this brilliant hobby.
cheers
Liz
Spreyton, Devon


2X2X2

Rubik's Pocket Cube Quantity: 1 The 1981 released by Ideal Toy Corporation.

3X3X3

Bandaged Cube Quantity: 1 The first mass produced bandaged 3x3x3 with only one unbandaged piece.
ITC Rubik's Cube - ITC UK tub packaging Quantity: 1 Ideal's "tub" packaging. Released in the UK in 1981.
Magic Cube IV Quantity: 1 Rhetoric question: And why shouldn't they use the same name everyone else used?

Rubik's Cube Key Ring (Rubik's Studio) Quantity: 1 A Mini Rubik's Cube, produced by Rubik's Studio.
Tiled Cube 48 mm Quantity: 1 This tiled cube stands 48 mm high, including the thickness of the tiles (approximately 1 mm each).

3X3X3 (PICTURE)

Magic Square Cube Quantity: 1 All diagonal, horizontal and vertical rows add up to 15.
Mercedes Benz Quantity: 1 This version has various shades of grey and a logo on every side.
Rubik's Perpetual Calendar - English Quantity: 1 The original red and white English version. "Rubik's Calendar"


4X4X4

Rubik's Revenge (ITC) Quantity: 1 Follow up to the Rubik's cube, as shown by its name. Produced in 1982 and 1983 by Ideal Toy Corporation in Korea, Macau and Hong Kong.
Rubik's Revenge (OddZon) Quantity: 1 Version by OddZon from 2000.

5X5X5

Professor Cube (non-grooved tiles) Quantity: 1 Mefferts 2002 version.

CUBE (SHAPE PRESERVING)

Skewb Quantity: 1 The deepcut corner turning cube.

CUBE (SHAPE CHANGING)

Cube 21 - Original Edition Quantity: 1 European version of the Square-1.
Get back to Square-1 Quantity: 1 An american based version of the Square-1. It distinguishes itself from the other variants because it was sold in scrambled state.
The Block Quantity: 1 A bilingual version "The Block", maybe also for the canadian market with a logo in a different font.


OCTAHEDRON

Skewb Diamond Quantity: 1 Meffert's build-up and truncation of a Skewb into an octahedron.

OTHER EIGHT-SIDED

Tetraminx Quantity: 1 The official Meffert Tetraminx.

DODECAHEDRON

Megaminx (Tomy) Quantity: 1 Tomy's twelve colour 1982 version.

FOUR

Pyramid Puzzler Keychain Quantity: 1 A Pyraminx clone that measures exactly 50 mm along an edge.
Pyraminx (Tomy 1981) Quantity: 1 The 1981 Tomy version. Most samples came with logo on the yellow face.
Pyramorphix Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 in shape of a tetrahedron.

Think Puzzles Pyraminx Quantity: 1 A high quality 2x2x2 mod by Mefferts.

FOURTEEN

Rainbow Cube Quantity: 1 A beautiful (but simple) puzzle closely related to the Dino Cube!

PUCKS

Czech Puck Quantity: 1 This version shows a Czech-themed crest.

SPHERE

Impossiball (aka Incrediball) Quantity: 1 A unique dodecahedral puzzle.
Mach Magic Ball - Soccer Quantity: 1 Solve all twelve hexes by matching up the three colours correctly. Came in at least five colour combinations.
Magic Ball (aka Rubik's Sphere) - 58 mm Quantity: 1 One of the spherical Rubiks cubes produced during the original cube craze. A derivative of the Wonderful Puzzler.

Rubik's World Quantity: 1 A black globe on a stand with the seven continents in various colours.
Think Puzzle Ball Quantity: 1 Complete the four coloured circles.

STAR

Alexander's Star Quantity: 1 A confusing twelve sided puzzle in a shape of a great dodecahedron, closely related to the Megaminx.

HEADS & OBJECTS

Darth Maul Head Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 puzzle in the shape of the head of Darth Maul, the main villain from Star Wars Episode I.
Hello Kitty 2x2x2 Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 resembling the namegiving character.
Rubik's Anakin Skywalker - Darth Vader head Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 puzzle with the shape of two characters from Star Wars Episode II.

Rubik's Darth Sidious - Count Dooku head Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 puzzle with the shape of two characters from Star Wars Episode II.
Rubik's Jango Fett - Clone Trooper head Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 puzzle with the shape of two characters from Star Wars Episode II.
Rubik's Obi Wan Head Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 puzzle with the shape of two characters from Star Wars Episode II.

Rubik's R2D2 - C3P0 head Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 puzzle with the shape of two characters from Star Wars Episode II.
Rubik's Senator Amidala - Princess Leia head Quantity: 1 A 2x2x2 puzzle with the shape of two characters from Star Wars Episode II.

OTHER SHAPES

Rubik's UFO Quantity: 1 An attractive little puzzle, possibly related to the legendary Rubik's Cheeze.

MOVING HOLE

Back Spin Quantity: 1 A mix between the moving hole puzzles and the two-layer UFO puzzles.
Ivory Tower Quantity: 1 A very successful puzzle from the original cube craze but not from Ernö Rubik.
Missing Link Key Chain Quantity: 1 The 1982 official Rubik's Missing Link Key Chain released by Ideal. This puzzle stands 59mm tall excluding the keychain, and the keychain's plastic attachement loop.

Puzzler-6 II Quantity: 1 A 50 mm 3x6 Whip-It key chain
Smarties Rotator Tube Quantity: 1 A very simple little puzzle.
Whip-It 3x6 (Pencil sharpener) Quantity: 1 This 65 mm Whip-It is built around a pencil sharpener.

Whip-It 3x6 (cylindrical) Quantity: 1 This 3x6 Whip-It stands approximately 7cm tall.

MOVING MARBLES

Entrapment Quantity: 1 A strange puzzle with moving marbles that came in two different versions.
Orb (aka Orb-It) (english versions) Quantity: 1 A bead-moving puzzle that came in at least four different versions. The non-english versions have their own entry.
Ten Billion Barrel Quantity: 1 A classical japanese puzzle from the original cube craze. This entry is about the versions with Nintendo-logo.

Ten Billion Barrel (Master) Quantity: 1 A ten billion barrel with an extra layer including 10 additional beads.
Ten Billion Barrel Key Chain Quantity: 1 This keychain version stands at about 30 mm.
Top-Spin Quantity: 1 "Just put the numbers in order"... sounds a lot easier than it is!


MOVING TILES

Gerdig UFO Quantity: 1 Spin the top/bottom half to mix the satellites, then use the central plunger to flip one, two, three or four satellites over.
Rubik's Fifteen (XV) Quantity: 1 Rubik's 15 (XV) is 2 puzzles in one. Arrange the numbers in sequence 1 to 15. On the other side there is a magic square challenge.

FOLDING

Rubik's Magic (Matchbox) Quantity: 1 The 1986 black Matchbox version.
Rubik's Snake Quantity: 1 The original version produced by Politoys.

PATTERN MATCHING

Rubik's Dice Quantity: 1 A great little puzzle that keep you busy for hours!
Rubik's Rabbit (aka Rubik's Hat) Quantity: 1 Rotate the layers until all rabbits can be seen through the top of the hat when held up to a bright light.

OTHER MECHANISMS

Rubik's Clock Quantity: 1 Point all 18 clocks to 12 to solve.
Rubik's Triamid Quantity: 1 Arrange the ten pieces by breaking them into two groups and putting them back together again.

BOOKS

Mastering Rubik's Cube (yellow) Quantity: 1 At last. The Solution. The 20th century's most perplexing puzzle made clear by a world-famous cube-master - Don Taylor
You Can Do The Cube Quantity: 1 #1 in the London Times and New York Times bestseller list for 1981, selling 1.5 million copies world-wide.

GAMES

Rubik's Magic Strategy Game Quantity: 1 "Easy to learn, a challenge to win." (Not to be confused with Rubik's Infinity, which is "easy to learn, a challenge to master"!)
Rubik's Race Quantity: 1 It's a race to make the scrambled "Cube Face"


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