A Compendium of Cube-Assembly Puzzles using Polycube Shapes


3×3×3 in the BookMy analysis
The Diabolical Cube Unknown 13 13
The Kinder Cube Kevin Holmes 13 13
The Chequered Kinder Kevin Holmes 8 8
The Nine Tricube - 111 111
The Chequered Tricubes Kevin Holmes ? -
Conway's Cube Slothouber-Graatsma 1 1
The Steinhaus Cube J.G. Mikusiñski 2 2
Nob's Cube NOB Yoshigahara 1 1
The Half Hour Puzzle Stewart Coffin 1 1
Coffin's Quartet Stewart Coffin 1 1/1
Flat Out Martin Watson 1 43
Rik's Cube Kit Rik van Grol 1 to 10 -
The Soma Cube Piet Hein 480 (240) 480 (240)
Len's Cube Len Gordon 1 1
Treep's Cube Anneke Treep 1 1
The Impuzzables Gerard D'Arcey Yellow 1,142 1,142
Orange3030
Green1616
Red11
Blue82
White11
Lesk Cube Les Kokay 4 4
Levonen's No.1 Juha Levonen 1 1/1
Cotway's Cube Yoshiyuki Kotani (1982) Many 4
Checkit Trevor Wood 1 1
Vesala's Cube No.1 Markku Vesala 78 (39) 78 (39)
Vesala's Cube No.2 Markku Vesala 2 2
The Minotaur Cube Adrian Fisher 2 2
The Kreta Cube Set Bernhard Shweizer Kreta 7 7
Knossos 2 2
Minos 9 9
Theseus 2 2
Ariadne 3 3
Kairatos 4 4
Megaron 1 1
The Diabolito Cube Bernhard Shweizer 115 45
Sleepy Eyes L. Brokenshire 2 to 13 -
Oskar's Cube Unknown 3 3
Junior 6's and 7's Kevin Holmes 1 1
Trikub Lothar Hannappel 5 to 240 5 to 240
Coffin's Quintet Stewart Coffin 1 1
The Domino Cube Trevor Wood 2 2
Kolor Kraze Unknown ? 190
FRED Unknown Many -
Reid's Cube Michael Reid 1+1 1+1
The Hooked Cube Franz-Josef Shulte 34 34
Twice Dice Angus Lavery 1+1 -
The Spots Puzzle Unknown 2 2
Rotamove Cube Juha Levonen 1 1/1
The Staple Cubes Oskar van Deventer 1 1/1
Three Cheers Fred Armitage 12? 45
4×4×4 in the BookMy analysis
The Holey Squares Cube Trevor Wood 2 2
Cube the Square Trevor Wood 1 1
Alice Harold Cataquet 2 2
The Cubic Chessboard Jacques Haubrich 1,863 1,863
The Hollow Heptacubes Kevin Holmes 1 1
Tucker's Teaser Richard Tucker 3 4
The Cow & Calf Trevor Wood 8 4
Dressed to Fit Series Harold Cataquet 6+6 -
One Over The Eight Kevin Holmes 1 1
The Nine Eights Kevin Holmes 42 (28) 42 (21)
Holmes's Hollow Cube Kevin Holmes without 1 14 (7) 14 (7)
without 2, 31919
without 4, 54444
without 640 (20)40 (20)
without 7, 81717
without 900
without 1012 (6)12 (6)
The Intractable Ten Pairs of Squares Kevin Holmes 186 (128) 186 (93) Gemini
The Binary Cube Kevin Holmes 100,000+ 1,786,892 (893,446) Helene
The Chequered Binary Cube Kevin Holmes 6,517 -
Coffin's Convolution Stewart Coffin 1 1/1
Haubrich's Hexacubes Jacques Haubrich 1 1
Hara's 1st Diabolical Cube Yoshikatsu Hara a, b 3 3
c44
d22
Cube des 64 Unités Jean Carle 1 1
The Hookworm Kit Trevor Wood A 1 2
B33
C22
D22
E11
F33
G11
Sweet Little Sixteen Juha Levonen 14 1/7
The HexUltimate Convertible Harold Cataquet 1 1 Piece 1,2,7,8,9 are incorrect
Checkered Mummy's Curse
Holmes's Hexacube Kit Kevin Holmes a 10 (5) 10 (5)
b6 (4)6 (4)
c, d99
Holmes's Hollow Hexacubes Kevin Holmes 1,652 (832) 1,664 (832)
Senior Sixes and Sevens Kevin Holmes 1 1
2-3-4 Cube Yoshikatsu Hara 1,000+
without 63,318
without 75,717
without 8663
without 92,541
without 101,262
without 112,216
Penta-L NOB Yoshigahara 1 2 (1)
Double L NOB Yoshigahara 5 5
Point Seven Five Kevin Holmes 406 406 (203)
The Half-Crown Cube Kevin Holmes 406 2
Hara's 2nd Diabolical Cube Yoshikatsu Hara a 42 (21) 42 (21)
b18 (9)18 (9)
c16 (8)16 (8)
d108 (54)108 (54)
e, f1818
Six Pack Harold Cataquet - 13 The piece 6 is incorrect
Knob Woodworm Kit NOB Yoshigahara 49
without A, B43
without C, E28
without D36 (18)
without F, G138
without H, I83
without J28 (14)
Bedlam Cube Bruce Bedlam 200+ 19,186 The piece 8 is incorrect
Flexicube Harold Cataquet ? 1 The piece 11 is incorrect
Trtra-Hexa Cube Yoshikatsu Hara ? 100,268
Pfäffinger No.5 George Pfäffinger 1 1/1
Pfäffinger No.26 George Pfäffinger 1 1/1
Construct-A-Cube Leonid Mochalov 71 188 (102)
The Chequered H&L Fris Göbel 1 53
Twelve Fifty Three Kevin Holmes 1 1
Juha's Unique Dozen Juha Levonen 1 1
Juha's Interlocking No.1 Juha Levonen 1 1/1
The 11th Piece Puzzle Juha Levonen 4+1 4+1
Zig Zag Burr (Juha's 10th) Juha Levonen 1 1/2
May Burr (Juha's 11th) Juha Levonen 1 1/1
Juha's 5th Juha Levonen 1 1/1
L-Blocks Trevor Wood - 472
LL-OGO Cube Trevor Wood 1+3 1+4
Steve's Cube No.1 Steve Harvey 1 1/1
Steve's Cube No.2 Steve Harvey 1 1/1 The piece 1 is incorrect
Steve's Cube No.3 Steve Harvey 1 1/1
Steve's Cube No.4 Steve Harvey 1 1/1
Steve's Cube No.5 Steve Harvey 1 1/1
Six Fifty Eight Kevin Holmes 1 1
Mayer's Cube No.1 (model9B) Derek Mayer 1 1/1
King's Court Richard Tucker 1 1/1
Juha's 12th Cube Juha Levonen 1 1/1
Mate-in-five (Juha's 13th) Juha Levonen 1 (+1) 1/2 (+1)
The Tetracube - 1,000+ 10,000+
Mayer's Cube No.3 (model 10C) Derek Mayer 1 1/1 The piece 3 is incorrect
The L-10 Cube Junichi Yananose Many 15,980
Mayer's Cube No.2 (model 7B) Derek Mayer 1 1/1 Piece 1, 5, 6 are incorrect
The Dutch Cubist Martin Watson 87 87 The piece 6 is incorrect
Interlocking Cubes 1,2,3 & 4 Junichi Yananose 1 1 1/1
2 1 1/1
3 1 1/1
4 1 1/1
Mined Mistake Fred Armitage 1 1
Abraxis Thijs Notenboom Many 4,200+
Whole Lotta Move (Juha's 7th) Juha Levonen 1 1/1
Juha's Unique 13 Juha Levonen 1 1
The Tetrepeat Cube Kevin Holmes - 1
The Eclecticube Kevin Holmes 1 1
The Hollow Planar Pentacubes Fred Armitage 492 and 86 492+86+142
Pieces of Eight Fred Armitage 1 1
The Dutch Chequered Sqube Fred Armitage - -
Fred's Chequered 8-4 Sqube Fred Armitage - -
Bury The Block Fred Armitage - -
The Chequered TriTetraPenta Cube Fred Armitage - -
Fred's Fiasco Fred Armitage - 1
Phred's Phenomenon Fred Armitage 1 1
Unlucky Twins Fred Armitage 1 1,000+
Identical Twins Fred Armitage 1 1
Binary Child's Play Fred Armitage 10,000+ -
5×5×5 in the BookMy analysis
Conway's Configuration Kevin Holmes 2 (1) 1
Blocks-in-a-Box John Conway 1144 (572) 572
The Empty Heptacubes Kevin Holmes 79 79
The Tunnel Kevin Holmes 4 4
Tucker's Tormentor Richard Tucker 1 1/1
Twenty-five Y Pentacubes - 1,264 1,264
Wookey Hole Stewart Coffin 1 1/17
Pfäffinger No.208 George Pfäffinger 1 1/1
Twenty-five N Pentacubes - 1(+) 4
Watson's Wormhole Martin Watson 1 1
Reid's 25 Pentacubes Robert Reid ? 6,000+
Interlocking Box Junichi Yananose 1 1/1
Buttonius 25x5-M Peter Knoppers 1,000+ -
Pfäffinger No.646 George Pfäffinger 1 1/1
Fred's Frustrating Foursome Fred Armitage ? 760,000+
Bunches of Holey 53's Fred Armitage ? -
6×6×6 in the BookMy analysis
Two Point Five Kevin Holmes - 1,334 (667)
Cube 216-C Yoshikatsu Hara - 230,000+
Cube 216-1 Yoshikatsu Hara - 14 The piece 7 is incorrect
Cube 216-2 Yoshikatsu Hara 10,000+ 25,682
Two To One Kevin Holmes 4 3
The Triplets Cube Kevin Holmes 1 1 The piece 3 is incorrect
The One & a Half Cube Kevin Holmes 2 2
The Splitting Headache Bill Cutler 1 1
The Hidden Cube Leonid Mochalov 36 5
Cubic Equation No.1 R.A. Wheeler 6×6×6 1 1
5×5×51
4×4×41
3×3×31
Cubic Equation No.2 Thomas O'Beirne 6×6×6 1 1 The piece 8 is incorrect
5×5×52
4×4×41
3×3×31
Cubic Equation No.3 Emmet Duffy 6×6×6 1 1 The piece 4 is incorrect
5×5×51
4×4×44
3×3×32
Cubic Equation No.4 Thomas O'Berine 6×6×6 1 1
5×5×52
4×4×41
3×3×31
The N Tetracube - - 20,000+
The T Tetracube - - - This is not a prime.
The Plannar Hexacubes P.J. Torbijn - -
The Thin Snake - A Kevin Holmes 1 -
The Thin Snake - B Kevin Holmes 1 -
Harvey's First Eleven Steve Harvey 1 1/1
2-way Checker Cube Bill Darrah dark-cornered 1 2
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A Compendium of Cube-Assembly Puzzles using Polycube Shapes

Oct 24, 2002 by k16@chiba.email.ne.jp