My latest mod: Thomas Skewb

Thomas · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:40 pm

I'd like to introduce you to Thomas Skewb. As I had previously announced this is a built-up version of the Skewb mod that I made prior to Dutch Cube Day 2007.

Thomas

edit: I renamed this puzzle from Thomas' Cube to Thomas Skewb.

joey · **Joined:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:02 pm

I am glad to be the first to say, That is Awesome!!!

Siraj A. · **Joined:** Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:14 pm **Location:** VA, USA

I LOVE IT! Good work. Reminds me of Fisher's Golden cube...

---a- -o--- · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:16 pm

Wow, you are really making amazing mods. As said in another thread, this really is a time of skewbs!

Garrett · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:36 pm

Looks great! I am guessing it is a buildup of the Ultimate?

Ryan Thompson · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:46 pm

That looks awesome. Fantastic Job. I'm still grasping the mechanism and pieces, but it appears to me that there are only two unique pieces to the whole puzzle is this true?

JasonSmith · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:32 pm

Great work on this. It looks perfect.

TheAtarian1 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:55 pm

Very nice, Thomas. It reminds me of the golden cube.

chris_joe · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:19 am

haha great job! I love it!

juanan · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:42 am

NICE creation

Í like people like you that is always creating new puzzles and new ideas

:wink:

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:38 am

It does look indeed like a Golden Cube, but this time filled with colors!

Nice work Thomas!!!

Pantazis

Noah · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:41 am

It's like the Golden Cube, but without the 1/6th slice twist. Great job Thomas!

I love it.

jarettswatter · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:40 am

Noah wrote:

It's like the Golden Cube, but without the 1/6th slice twist. Great job Thomas!

I love it.

Does that make it harder or easier to solve?

Vadim · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:34 am

Ooooh!
That's awesome!
I absolutely love it to bits!
Looks great Thomas!
Well done.
Vadim

Noah · **Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:48 am

jswat wrote:

Noah wrote:

It's like the Golden Cube, but without the 1/6th slice twist. Great job Thomas!

I love it.

Does that make it harder or easier to solve?

Easier because you know you have to build it in a cube shape no matter what, and it also has colors to tell you what pieces go where and where they belong in relation to other pieces.

Sigurd · **Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:11 pm

awesome mod Thomas.

these builds attracts me alot!

when I first get my Golden Cube and I am gonna sticker it with colors

Thomas · **Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:12 pm

Thanks for all the compliments.

This is indeed made from a (truncated) Skewb Ultimate.

I understand that this mod reminds some of you of Tony Fisher's Golden Cube. They are both made from a Skewb and they are both cubes. But they are not the same. The Golden Cube is a pretty random design and all the pieces are unique. That made it possible to use one colour for the stickers.
My design is very symmetric and uses only a small number of different pieces. And although my design is also a shapeshifting puzzle, not only in its solved state will it be cubic.

Movement is excellent, better than all my other Skewbs. I guess that's because the pieces are so large. Only my Tony Fisher's Mental Block turns as smooth.

Thomas

Siraj A. · **Joined:** Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:14 pm **Location:** VA, USA

How fast can you solve this?

frederic plateus · **Joined:** Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:10 pm **Location:** Belgium

Sacre bleu!!!!
wooow, thomas!!
wicked! so nice!!i like it so much!!
pfff too good!!
congratulation man, i am exited to see the next mod (you know the one i am talking about....) hahahahahha

Swordsman Kirby · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:47 am

This is so clever I just can't imagine.

My latest mod: Thomas Skewb

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