That's Just Twisted!

pirsquared · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:05 pm

I am proud to present my new puzzles:

Twister I and Twister II.

Twister I Checkerboard and Scrambled

Twister II Checkerboard and Scrambled

Twister I and II after the same moves

Twister I Top

Twister II Top

You can see my new logo on the last two photos. Can anyone figure out what it is? I hope to eventually be able to print the logo directly onto the sticker paper, instead of drawing it sloppily with a sharpie. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to do that?

I'll post a video in a day or two.

Here is how it was made: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=13760

Enjoy!

-π (Eitan)

EDIT: Sorry for the wait. Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEuC7gJiM8

WilliamF · **Joined:** Fri May 15, 2009 3:12 pm

Very good, but why did you sit on them ?
Now they're completly twisted. All that work for nothing.

No, stop jocking, they are beautiful.
Any video ?

pirsquared · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:17 pm

pirsquared wrote:

I'll post a video in a day or two.

Puzzlemaster42 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:41 pm

Nice ambigram logo! ("citan"?)

The twister 1 looks a bit like my twist cube, but distinctly different in the way you applied the twist.

pirsquared · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:46 pm

Puzzlemaster42 wrote:

Nice ambigram logo! ("citan"?)

Not quite! Try again!

-π (Eitan)

theVDude · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:53 pm

Eitan, your name, right?

pirsquared · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:57 pm

theVDude wrote:

Eitan, your name, right?

That's it!

I guess signing my last reply was a little bit of a giveaway.

-π (Eitan)

MarkSS · **Joined:** Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:29 am **Location:** UK

Both nice but I think I prefer #2. They have a surreal look.

Justin · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:31 pm

Nice work!

They both look pretty tough to solve.

I prefer the one with the Windmill type pattern - it looks more swirly and Dali-esque than the other.

Jolts · **Joined:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:38 pm

Amazing, great idea! Those look pretty dizzying to solve.

elijah · **Joined:** Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:55 am **Location:** WA, USA

definitely about time someone made this mod, i was expecting it months ago when the twisty 1x1s came out!

Very nice job!

tonylmd · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:06 pm

the #1 is look like a twisted version of fisher cube.
really I like these. just perfectly fit to the name.

theVDude · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:21 pm

This kinda reminds me of a square antiprism. You should make one that's twisted 45 degrees, so that the top is like twister I and the bottom is like twister II.

Pierce J · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:43 pm

Very very nice! I like these a lot. Great job

-Pierce J

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Nice puzzle.
This is one I have also been working on, off and on for quite a while.

Vadim · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:22 am

Awesome!
Tony, were you trying to build those by hand? :shock:

Vadim

darryl · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:36 am

That is very cool, and very innovative, I never would have thought of doing anything like that.

-d

pirsquared · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:07 pm

Thanks everyone!

Tony: I can't imagine getting it uniformly twisted by hand. That would be sooooooooooooo tedious and nerve wracking! Good luck!

-pi (Eitan)

Kapusta · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:03 pm

pirsquared wrote:

Thanks guys!

Kapusta: Try looking in the New Puzzles forum!

Found it.

Love it scrambled!

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Vadim wrote:

Awesome!
Tony, were you trying to build those by hand? :shock:

Vadim

Yes but so far I had only stuck plasticine to a cube as a 3d sketch a few times. Looking at this one again mine would be different though similar. It certainly wouldn't be easy by hand but certainly buildable. I was going to call it either Tony Fisher's Twisted or Tony Fisher's Twisty Puzzle assuming they hadn't been used before. I may still go ahead with it for 2010 DCD.

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Twisted twisty twisters! Nice idea!

pirsquared · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:21 pm

Sorry for the huge bump, but I wanted to let people know that I am now selling one of these on eBay. Please go to the marketplace forum for the link: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15017

I am selling the Twister 2, but it is not the same one as in these pictures. It's kind of version 2.0: it's from the same molds, but cast with more experience under my belt.

-π (Eitan)

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