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CrazyB4cube
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The Crazy 2-face enhanced with traditional bandaging. Sold as a kit.

The history of 3x3x3 Circle Cubes unfolded in these steps:
1. 3x3x3 Circle Cube: All 0face(XO) 3x3x3. Invented by Aleh Hladzilin.
2. Crazy 3x3x3 Planet Cubes: 0face(XO) and 1face(O-O) combinations. Invented by Dayan/MF8.
3. Crazy 2-face Cubes: The addition of "2face/s" to Crazy333planet Cubes. Invented by a forum member called rline.

The CrazyB4cube shown here (a puzzle with B4elements) is the fourth step in this development.
The addition of 11 new centre types, external B4bandaging, and/or PGEparity to a Circle Cube(000), Crazy333planets or Crazy2face puzzles. Invented by Jason Burgess.
The CrazyB4cube comes as a kit, with the possibility of constructing many thousands of puzzles from it. It consists of a combination of mass produced, hand-modified and 3D printed components, with machine-cut stickers.
The internal 3D printed mechanism allows both the inner ring and outer collar to be combined in 4 different ways: Free spinning [O], Blocked [X], Constrained [C], Piggyback-constrained [P]. Making a total of 13 centre types: CC CX CO XC XX XO OC OX OO, C-C O-O, PC, CP. When these are combined with 2 faces it results in 26 possibilities.

External bandaging was hand modified for both the inner ring and outer collar blocks which fit together in different ways to form a variety of bandaged blocks. The majority of kits were sold with single colour blocks, however a handful of kits were sold with a complete set of 6 colour bandaging.
The centre components were originally hand modded and invented by Jason Burgess. Carl Hoff made the CAD designs for the second kit.

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Thank you to the following people for their assistance in helping collect the information on this page: Jason Burgess.

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