Things that aren't puzzles but look like they should be

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

Master Master Ball?

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

Super puzzles

c1829 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:20 pm

Rubiks magic.

ulmboy556 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:46 pm **Location:** PA, USA

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this one never took off.

pirsquared · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:23 pm

Here's an example of what some people did to something that looked like it should be a puzzle:

http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/cube/

-pi (Eitan)

RedRoost80 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:01 pm

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/internatio ... hoto_num=1

1x1x80 spinning building in Dubai?

traiphum · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:02 pm

Try to solve this >> siamese 4x4 :shock:

Ministry of Science and Technology of Thailand
National Synchrotron Research Center

Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

A puzzle-sized model of Traiphum's idea is possible. It isn't too hard either.

Monopoly · **Posted:** Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:54 pm

The Noah's Ark from D.gray-man looks like a 'bumped' 4x4x4.
http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/135/DGM_135_pg03/

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

This one's a shape shifter:

Koko90 · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:22 am

The Saint Maclou logo...

Melysa · **Joined:** Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:30 pm **Location:** New York

I don't even know what these things are. :oops:

(They are in the floral isle at my job)

Kapusta · **Posted:** Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:38 pm

Monopoly wrote:

The Noah's Ark from D.gray-man looks like a 'bumped' 4x4x4.
http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/135/DGM_135_pg03/

D Gray Man is the best.

RedRoost80 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:51 am

sorry for the 23 day bump, but my friend just sent me a pic from when he was in Florida

3x3x3

http://img299.imageshack.us/f/383161508 ... 15556.jpg/

Melysa · **Joined:** Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:30 pm **Location:** New York

While I was shopping...I stopped at a fast food place and saw this...

1x3x5?

mizzle576 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:51 pm

Here are a few!

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

mizzle576 wrote:

Here are a few!

If I'm not mistaken, that first building is a puzzle. I'm sure that at night the words are projected onto it (I could be wrong though :roll:

).

Alex

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

You are not mistaken, but they are not projected:

EnglishRussia.com wrote:

There is one interesting detail about the design of the puzzle. It looks like an empty puzzle during the day-light, but at night when special lights are on[,] the words in the puzzle become visible with a lightly-glowing fluorescent color.

Source: English Яussia

Skarabajo.

DLitwin · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:07 pm

http://yfrog.com/3dwtrdj

Dave

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

What ever is depicted on Sheldon's tee-shirt.

Julian · **Posted:** Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:02 am

The "Kometor" sculpture in the town of Peuerbach in Upper Austria, which houses a walk-in museum with an entrance underneath. It was commissioned to honor Georg von Peuerbach (1423-1461) who made significant contributions to astronomy. The dodecahedron is 15m tall. (As it has only one color, I think it would scramble a bit like Tony's Golden Cube, with unexpected axes.) Further pictures and info in German available here.

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Melysa · **Joined:** Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:30 pm **Location:** New York

1x2x2?

Justin · **Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:12 pm

Nissan Cube Car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aL9mj8ImiU

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

http://vihart.com/food/polyhedra/

Justin · **Posted:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:11 pm

I saw this today in a charity shop window. I think it's a type of lantern.

Rhombic Petahedron

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katsmom · **Posted:** Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:33 am

An air freshener from a grocery in Macau

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also in Macau

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

pirsquared wrote:

Here's an example of what some people did to something that looked like it should be a puzzle:

http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/cube/

-pi (Eitan)

This is right outside my dorm room! I spun it around just yesterday! It's tons of fun :]

Melysa · **Joined:** Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:30 pm **Location:** New York

Was "packing out" some things at work and saw this...

Monopoly · **Posted:** Sat Dec 25, 2010 7:30 am

Went to NYC yesterday and saw this:

I wonder if it was MEANT to look like a Rubik's cube. :lol:

By the way, merry christmas, to everyone who celebrates!

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

This huge sculpture is outside on of my classrooms a RIT, I would estimate the edge length to be about 4 feet.

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:42 am

Recently, in Seville, Spain, there was a new wooden interlocking structure which was made.

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More information and photos here.

Pantazis

PS. Also, here is an old post with another nice photo:
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopi ... =1&t=15586

maarten · **Joined:** Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:50 pm

MaCheezm0 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:30 pm

This was in the East Village in NYC.

There was a link where people put cardboard on each of the sides and made it look like a Rubik's cube as a prank. I'm gonna search for it.

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

MaCheezm0 wrote:

There was a link where people put cardboard on each of the sides and made it look like a Rubik's cube as a prank. I'm gonna search for it.

Just scroll up and take a look at the 5th post of this exact thread. :wink:

Skarabajo.

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

Scrolling through this thread, I noticed a post by RedRoost80 with a photo from Florida. I thought that I might add that this seems to be near the location of one world championships (it seems familiar; I think that it was the location of whatever competition was featured on the documentary "Cubers")

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

"abstract-golden-cubes-with-a-red-cube"

traiphum · **Posted:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:27 am

Tony Fisher wrote:

"abstract-golden-cubes-with-a-red-cube"

Who twist it pop :lol:

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

A Giant 2x5x5 Touch Cube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPaKHYnnijI

Jack Lopez · **Joined:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:16 am **Location:** Indiana

Tony Fisher wrote:

A Giant 2x5x5 Touch Cube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPaKHYnnijI

How on earth did you find this video?

ejisfun · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:01 pm

quicksolver wrote:

Scrolling through this thread, I noticed a post by RedRoost80 with a photo from Florida. I thought that I might add that this seems to be near the location of one world championships (it seems familiar; I think that it was the location of whatever competition was featured on the documentary "Cubers")

That cube is from the POP Century Resort in Disney World. (I stayed at this resort in January

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katsmom · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:40 am

I'm not sure what it was, but it was pricey. $2500.

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Burgo · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:42 am

You'd think for that price they would at least get the colours right.. I mean, 2 yellow centres?? Someone doesn't even have an understanding of the functionality of the cube.. and they are in charge of the design :roll:

.
Cheers,
Burgo.

Drake · **Joined:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:48 pm **Location:** Canada

And 1(like 2 ) corner with 2 white "stickers" hmm

. Is it stickered like a 3 color cube or sommething :X?

katsmom · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:22 pm

Even worse than all the coloring problems is that it is an officially BRANDED Rubik's product. I mean HELLO! You couldn't. Find a cube in the office somewhere to compare to?

Drake · **Joined:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:48 pm **Location:** Canada

But yeah but put 2 same center lol? And 2 same color on a corner to XD?

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

Burgo wrote:

You'd think for that price they would at least get the colours right.. I mean, 2 yellow centres?? Someone doesn't even have an understanding of the functionality of the cube.. and they are in charge of the design :roll: .
Cheers,
Burgo.

Lets not forget that we are all obsessed with cubes here. >99.9% of the worlds population simply looks and sees a Rubik's Cube. I am sure there are things we all say and do that other experts and specialists are horrified by. For example in my job we use the term "burnt flint" a lot. The so called experts argue that flint cannot be burnt (in normal circumstances) so it should be called heat altered flint! I am sure that sounds ridiculous to most here but that's exactly what we are doing when we moan over a wrongly coloured mock cube.

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:20 am

Burgo wrote:

You'd think for that price they would at least get the colours right.. I mean, 2 yellow centres?? Someone doesn't even have an understanding of the functionality of the cube.

In that case you should get this one:
http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=2550
This jigsaw is explicitly based around such plausibility questions.

maarten · **Joined:** Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:50 pm

Saw this building in Berlin while cyclicg to Der Verrückte Laden to but some puzzles and immediately jumped off my bike to make a photo. A bit over exposed, sorry. It can be seen on street view: stand on the Potsdamer Straße close to the crossing with the Schöneberger Ufer and look east.

Splinter · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:20 am

In the Netherlands, there are a few Cube buildings to live in. Both available in Rotterdam and Helmond.

You cube enthousiasts should move over here ;-)

Update: in Rotterdam for sale for only € 189.000 k.k (buyer's transfer costs).

http://www.funda.nl/koop/rotterdam/appa ... os/#foto-1
http://www.funda.nl/koop/rotterdam/appa ... os/#foto-2

Jorbs3210 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:55 pm

pirsquared wrote:

Here's an example of what some people did to something that looked like it should be a puzzle:

http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/cube/

-pi (Eitan)

But they got the color scheme wrong!

Oh well.

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