Puzzle Deisgners
Hey, everyone! So it's past midnight and I've been sitting here for a bit trying to decide what to write my post about, and I decided on puzzle designers. There are a lot of them, but I'll just go through and talk about some of the more famous ones.
I'll start out with my favorite, Oskar Van Deventer. Oskar is a Dutch puzzle designer who, rather than modifying existing puzzles like many puzzle designers do, creates completely unique mechanisms and puzzles using 3D printing. He's best known for designing the 17x17x17 "Over the top" cube, which held the world record as the largest of its kind for a very long time. He also started the "Gear puzzles" idea, which you can see below:
https://thecubicle.us/gear-cubes-c-100_144.html
He's also invented other unique designs like, such as the mixup cube (A really interesting cube where the centers and edges can switch places) and the Redi cube, an interesting corner-turning puzzle.
Next up is NathanWilson (or NerdBubbleGum, as he used to be called). He's not a puzzle designer in the traditional sense- rather, he modifies puzzles that already exists and turns them into something new. Some of his modifications are of his own design, though, so I think he should count. The thing that sticks out about Nathan is that he deliberately chooses to do mods that you or I could do, and then makes videos about how to do them. I've never done any NathanWildon modifications myself, mostly because I lack the supplies and skills to do so, but recently one of them went on sale on my favorite cube-related website, so I'm going to buy one today or tomorrow. Here's a link if you care to see what puzzle I'm referring to:
https://thecubicle.us/product_info.php?products_id=9778{1}2
Perhaps in my next blog post, I'll provide a review. Maybe. I haven't actually decided yet.
Now a... hopefully short bit about Tony Fisher. I don't have much to say about Tony Fisher, and what I do have to say generally isn't good. You'll find that out during this blog project- it's a personal thing that I probably won't get into unless I decide to make an actual post just about that. But despite all of the bad I have to say about him, he's a pretty decent puzzle designer. He's most famous for designing the "Fisher cube" (pictured below) back in the 80's.
It's functionally identical to a regular 3x3- the edges have just been cut off and glued to the centers. He's invented a lot of other puzzles since then, but the only big or relevant thing he's done is build the world's largest Rubik's cube- It's 1.57 meters tall.
(Pictured above: Puzzle designer Tony Fisher standing next to the only worthwhile thing he's ever done with his miserable life)
I'll start out with my favorite, Oskar Van Deventer. Oskar is a Dutch puzzle designer who, rather than modifying existing puzzles like many puzzle designers do, creates completely unique mechanisms and puzzles using 3D printing. He's best known for designing the 17x17x17 "Over the top" cube, which held the world record as the largest of its kind for a very long time. He also started the "Gear puzzles" idea, which you can see below:
https://thecubicle.us/gear-cubes-c-100_144.html
He's also invented other unique designs like, such as the mixup cube (A really interesting cube where the centers and edges can switch places) and the Redi cube, an interesting corner-turning puzzle.
Next up is NathanWilson (or NerdBubbleGum, as he used to be called). He's not a puzzle designer in the traditional sense- rather, he modifies puzzles that already exists and turns them into something new. Some of his modifications are of his own design, though, so I think he should count. The thing that sticks out about Nathan is that he deliberately chooses to do mods that you or I could do, and then makes videos about how to do them. I've never done any NathanWildon modifications myself, mostly because I lack the supplies and skills to do so, but recently one of them went on sale on my favorite cube-related website, so I'm going to buy one today or tomorrow. Here's a link if you care to see what puzzle I'm referring to:
https://thecubicle.us/product_info.php?products_id=9778{1}2
Perhaps in my next blog post, I'll provide a review. Maybe. I haven't actually decided yet.
Now a... hopefully short bit about Tony Fisher. I don't have much to say about Tony Fisher, and what I do have to say generally isn't good. You'll find that out during this blog project- it's a personal thing that I probably won't get into unless I decide to make an actual post just about that. But despite all of the bad I have to say about him, he's a pretty decent puzzle designer. He's most famous for designing the "Fisher cube" (pictured below) back in the 80's.
It's functionally identical to a regular 3x3- the edges have just been cut off and glued to the centers. He's invented a lot of other puzzles since then, but the only big or relevant thing he's done is build the world's largest Rubik's cube- It's 1.57 meters tall.
(Pictured above: Puzzle designer Tony Fisher standing next to the only worthwhile thing he's ever done with his miserable life)
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