Packages Just Arrived with Rare Puzzles

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

SEBUVER wrote:

xuantee wrote:

At least than I own a credit card and am able to buy cube online

xuantee wrote:

I'll just have to wait until I get older. At least than I own a credit card and am able to buy cube online

That 'than' should be 'then'; he means that he doesn't have a credit card now and so cannot buy puzzles online, but will be able to in the future.

Alex

xuantee · **Joined:** Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:16 am

Sorry for my grammar error

katsmom · **Posted:** Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:00 pm

When I first moved to HK, there were no puzzle shops. I literally walked the streets to find toys. I went to mom and pop toy shops, i went to markets.
I know others on forums go to rummage/car boot sales. Others go to flea markets, or good will/salvation army/oxfam type places.

If you want puzzles, you look for them. Every where you go. I'm still in Macau, and in our travels around this city, I've found puzzles in 5 different places. I've read over and over how this city has nothing.....and yet, we've found something. (Nothing I don't have, but puzzles all the same)

As the bug says "you have to put your 'spotter eye's in" She's right! Just look and you might be surprised at what you find.

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:07 pm

Well, some nice puzzles also arrived (for example, Eric's brilliant Child Play,
as well as some "Alien Tech" prototypes), but those little booklets I received
the past days constitute some valuable puzzle history!

So, here is the CFF (Cubism For Fun) panorama, which showcases all of the
issues till now! All sorts of puzzles, their solutions, reviews of their history
and origin, IPPs, Cube Days, etc etc etc. They cover all the interesting events
from March 1981 till now.

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"Without the past, there can be no future".

Pantazis

dannyb21892 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:30 pm **Location:** NYC

Just a few days ago I recieved a face turning rhombic dodecahedron! It's a beautiful puzzle that now sits hopelessly scrambled on my dresser :oops:

Luke · **Posted:** Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:07 pm

Today I received my Mini Split Pentagonal Domino puzzle (designed by RubixFreakGreg) from Shapeways! I was slightly worried as I was the one who was prototyping it, but I must say that it's an awesome puzzle! I'll be making a topic when I finally get around to stickers.

Sharon · **Joined:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:25 pm **Location:** Israel

Can you post a picture without the stickers?

Sharon

Luke · **Posted:** Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:16 pm

I tried, but I can't at the moment. My Internet is dreadful. I'll try tommorow, and who knows, my Mini Chopper also from RubixFreakGreg may have arrived then.

Luke · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:44 am

OK. Here are some pictures:

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Luke · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:23 pm

I got my Mini Chopper from RubixFreakGreg today, which was a trade for my Face Turning Octahedron. I'll post some pictures tommorow. A very nice puzzle indeed.

mizzle576 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:18 pm

Today I received a 2 color dogic IV from a very special seller who I shall keep anonymous. The Dogic is white and black so I had to take a picture with my other white and black cube.

Hope you like it!

Chris

NType3 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:48 am

Since nobody's posted it, and I ordered 6 hours after it came out, I might be one of the first to say I got my Vulcano!

I'm going to post a VERY flimsy review of it (it's my first :oops:

)

Please give me suggestions. It's a short review, mostly to demo that the puzzle has been released, works well, and is being received, but I'd like to know what to do in future reviews.

Thanks!

Konrad · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:51 am

I'm not sure how rare they are (or will become?): My Jade Puzzles have arrived today.

It would be nice to know, how many we are in the Jade Club, so we can judge how rare they really are.

This is my Christmas parcel from my wife:

Three puzzles from TomZ (Compy Skewb, Curvy Copter II, Helicopter Skewb), the Muse Skewb, and the Vulcano (has arrived at Christmas Eve exactly).
I'll take my time to solve them all (in theory I can solve four of them, but not yet the Curvy Copter II).
My wife has asked me, to spend more time with her than with my puzzles.
A very reasonable request that will be honoured!!!

Luke · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:40 am

Today I was given (to what I believe) a knock off 3x3x3 cube from the 1980s. It's yellowish white, and it has the standard colour scheme, apart from yellow is replaced with black. Does anyone have any information on this cube?

Aleksey · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 3:35 pm

Not exactly a holiday package for me, but it is for a good friend from this forum. 8-)

Sharon · **Joined:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:25 pm **Location:** Israel

Aleksey wrote:

Not exactly a holiday package for me, but it is for a good friend from this forum. 8-)

Is it the same one which was sold on ebay a few weeks ago? only saw this puzzle on time.

Sharon

NType3 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:48 am

What's that one called?

juanan · **Posted:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:15 pm

olidjus

katsmom · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:37 am

I'm not sure where to post this. Holiday packages? what Rox found this week? Packages with rare puzzles?

Ah well, this thread wins.

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Fisher's Mini Golden Cube. Pretty little thing.

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:57 am

katsmom wrote:

I'm not sure where to post this. Holiday packages? what Rox found this week? Packages with rare puzzles?

Ah well, this thread wins.

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Fisher's Mini Golden Cube. Pretty little thing.

Why is it contaminated with puzzle eating moss :shock:

Indeed, very cute!

- Greg

katsmom · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:46 am

my video camera takes photos so I took that before I did the gears video.
Didn't realize it had a flash on it. No puzzle eating mold.

DARKYtheCUBER · **Joined:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:06 am **Location:** Florida

RubixFreakGreg wrote:

katsmom wrote:

I'm not sure where to post this. Holiday packages? what Rox found this week? Packages with rare puzzles?

Ah well, this thread wins.

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Fisher's Mini Golden Cube. Pretty little thing.

Why is it contaminated with puzzle eating moss :shock:

Indeed, very cute!

- Greg

Haha, looks can be decieving :lol:

I think its just a reflection

Aleh · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:17 pm

Thanks a lot Aleksey for Olidjus (Олидюс)!!!

VIDEO

misterpoopoohead · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:17 am

Aleksey wrote:

Not exactly a holiday package for me, but it is for a good friend from this forum. 8-)

Aleksey,

What is this puzzle? It's pretty cool. Are there others like it available?

thanks,

kev

Sharon · **Joined:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:25 pm **Location:** Israel

misterpoopoohead wrote:

Aleksey wrote:

Not exactly a holiday package for me, but it is for a good friend from this forum. 8-)

Aleksey,

What is this puzzle? It's pretty cool. Are there others like it available?

thanks,

kev

I only saw one, on ebay, sold for something like 250-350$, cant remember the exact price.

Sharon

Edit: here it is - sold for 357$.

Konrad · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:27 am

Sharon wrote:

...
I only saw one, on ebay, sold for something like 250-350$, cant remember the exact price.

Sharon

Edit: here it is - sold for 357$.

I know the fellow twistypuzzle member, who has won that auction. This is a rare puzzle for sure and I know that the new owner is very proud of it.
Maybe you want to post it here? (It would set your number of posts to 2! :lol:

)

Aleksey · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:44 am

misterpoopoohead wrote:

What is this puzzle? It's pretty cool. Are there others like it available?

Kevin, this puzzle is called Olidjus. Please search the forum, and you will find a few references to this puzzle. Notably, Anthony Greenhill made a complete replica of it once in the past.

The puzzle is extremely rare. The above mentioned auction for this puzzle was first that I remember since being on eBay which started, I think, in 1998. It was produced in the Soviet Union, and is extremely rare even in the ex-USSR. I think low awareness of this puzzle and what it is contributed to the low - in my opinion - price on that auction.

Jared · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:20 pm

Aleh, thanks so much for the video! I've wanted to see one of them in action for a while now.

If you ever decide to scramble it, can you film a solve?

misterpoopoohead · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:24 pm

Aleksey wrote:

available?

Kevin, this puzzle is called Olidjus.
The puzzle is extremely rare. It was produced in the Soviet Union, and is extremely rare even in the ex-USSR.[/quote]Hi Aleksey,

Thanks for the info! It's very cool. I just watched the video that Aleh made. Neat!

kev

misterpoopoohead · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:25 pm

Jared wrote:

Aleh, thanks so much for the video! I've wanted to see one of them in action for a while now.

If you ever decide to scramble it, can you film a solve?

Yes! Thanks Aleh!

I'm with Jared. I'd love to see a solve on it too. ;o)

BTW, I still have the Brillic I bought from you. I love that puzzle!

kev

DLitwin · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:34 am

Eric Vergo and I did another trade, continuing on our last trade (here and here).

When waiting for an awesome puzzle, you *never* want to see this arrive:

I was really worried the Pentagram inside would be damaged, but it was fine:

And surprise, surprise! A friend was along for the ride:

I was *very* happy with the unexpected stowaway, it isn't every day an Ultra-X shows up unannounced.

In case the pictures do not convey it properly, these puzzles are really, really nice. Movement on the Pentagram is great despite a ton of tiny thin pieces.

Great job and *big* thanks to Mr. Eric Vergo,

Dave

Sigurd · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:02 am

wow Dave!!

quicksolver · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:38 pm

I would completely understand the "damaged condition" label if they arrived scrambled, especially if they were shape-shifted. That would mean that customs opened it, scrambled it, and thought that they broke it :lol:

RyanA · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:33 am

My Super Mario World Canundrum puzzle arrived today. I've been trying to get one of these for so long now it's untrue, but now I finally have one.

It is a lot bigger than I thought!

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Ryan

gingervergo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:23 pm

Over the past week or so I have recieved the following puzzles.

The babymorphix was a trade from Marcy, The duominx was a trade from Dave Litwin, and the ETO was a Christmas present. The ETO was a diy kit and I had to dye/assemble/sticker it. All three are great puzzles and I'm very happy to have them in my collection.

quicksolver · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:38 pm

Today I received several bags from Shapeways!! They contain.......I don't really know what they contain. They were gifts, and my mother doesn't know what she ordered. I have hesitantly identified them as a 2x3x4, a starminx, and a pentultimate (my mother said that the name TomZ rang a bell, so I used that as a basis for my educated guesses). Photos to follow when (if) I assemble them.

mizzle576 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:55 pm

Hello,

Today I received my brand new signed 5 color DOGIC.

Enjoy!

Chris

mizzle576 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:06 pm

Hello,

Today I received two absolutely beautiful puzzles from my favorite seller.

I present my 12 and 20 color DOGIC.

Thanks to the seller when he sees this!

Chris

Zzupler · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:26 am

Not 100% sure if this is rare....but it's the first time i've seen one since i started looking on ebay....

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iaroslavski · **Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:34 am

This weekend I bought Russian Flower (mint condition) on flea market
for 10 rubles only (~0.3 dollars). I like it!

Pepsis · **Joined:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:43 am **Location:** Italy

I don't know if it's better to post this here or in the "less rare puzzles" thread, but since my new Golden Cube is signed by both Tony Fisher and Uwe Meffert, I imagine it's no more an ordinary Golden Cube

Anyway, here are the pictures:

Unboxing
Unstickered
Stickered
Solved
Scrambled

I decided to put the stickers all around the signatures, since I prefer the gold to the simple black color...

Ben · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:44 pm

A neat little package came for me today, and made me my week!
I am now the proud owner of a Betcha Can't/Flexible Hexagon (with instructions), a tiled Skewb, older tiled Meffert's 4x4x4 and 5x5x5s (with stripes across tiles), older Meffert's 6-color Megaminx, and a couple put-together puzzles!

All images clickable!

They all are now sitting wonderfully in my collection 8-)

fbgrac · **Posted:** Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:10 pm

Hello,

I want to share with all of you the package that arrived yesterday, with the LAST 5 new Helicoter Cubes available in stores on January! They were bought on Mf8, right before they announce that last one for $10.000.

Have fun!
Fabio

mizzle576 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:10 pm

Hello Forum,

I just received this signed master skewb in the mail today! I like it MUCH more than the lanlan mass produced master skewb because it is proportional! I also like that it is slightly pillowed.

Thanks Timur,

Chris

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

Vintage Rubik's Cube 1977
all photo there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grigorusha/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZ3KFC8oy0

gibbleking · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:18 pm

needs a bit o furniture polish methinks...thats a nice cube.i do like the old cubes .i have a few old ones myself.last count 14.

Robert111 · **Joined:** Sun May 30, 2010 5:29 pm **Location:** England

I received my Mefferts White Golden Egg and Golden Egg in the mail today.
Very happy with my trade that I did on youtube, instead of this forum.

I original asked for the white and yellow eggs from this user, but as they took long to ship the package, they kindly changed the yellow for the golden one without me even asking.
Now waiting on the shipment of my White Golden Cube.

Robert

PS is it me or do they remind anyone else of the eggs from Harry Potter?

Volitar Prime · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:18 pm

Today I received two packages of rare puzzles. The first is a Trillion and Inca from Milan.

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The second package had a Double Think Binary Ring which is quite the rare puzzle as only 4 were sold

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I already had the Double Disk (also invented by Sergey Abramenkov) which I got from Amazon about a month ago. Both are very nice puzzles.

goetz · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:25 am

Today two nice puzzles arrived. The Mini Dino Cube is indeed "mini" and a cute puzzle. Thanks, Garret!

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:09 am

goetz wrote:

Today two nice puzzles arrived. The Mini Dino Cube is indeed "mini" and a cute puzzle. Thanks, Garret!

Not only the Dino is cute... My 2x3x4 is way bigger.

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