Sandy's Puzzle Collection - The Cabinets
sandy@twistypuzzles.com
September 20, 2003

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Organizing all these items was very difficult. No matter what system I choose, there is always some doubt about where to draw the lines. Very few items fit perfectly in one place without their absense being felt some other place. As a result of this, the organizing and reorganizing is still ongoing... and may always be.

Item descriptions appear to the right of the images.

Detail: 3x3x3 cabinet, the top four rows.

Row 1, Cell 1: Giant 3x3x3. Row 1, Cell 2: Three different Pikachu cubes. Row 1, Cell 3: Three different Smiley cubes. The large and small are the "Sixties" version with peace sign, mushroom, etc. Row 1, Cell 4: The Ideal yellow box Rubik's Cube. Row 2, Cell 1: White Hello Kitty, and two college cubes. Row 2, Cell 2: Four different Dice/Domino cubes, and one Magic Squares cube. Row 2, Cell 3: Various company promo cubes. Row 2, Cell 4: A couple promo cubes, a cheap tiled cube with letters and numbers and Chinese symbols, a cube with holes punched in each sticker, and a Flag Cube. Row 3, Cell 1: Sports and entertainment cubes: ET, Murder By Numbers, WWF, Britney Spears, San Francisco Giants, Dude Where's My Car. Row 3, Cell 2: Three Walker's cubes, one Coca Cola cube and one M&M/Pedigree cube. Row 3, Cell 3: Fast food and beer (always a winning combination): Two different McDonalds cubes, one Dairy Queen, one Budweiser, one Michelobe and one Coors. Row 3, Cell 4: Fruit and cereal cubes: Three Chex cubes (all appear different due to ink colour and intensity), two WP Fruit cubes and one General Mills cereals cube. Row 4, Cell 1: Six different Poker cubes. Row 4, Cell 2: One more Poker cube, the white Vice City cube and the silver Toronto WC2003 give-away cube. Row 4, Cell 3: Five white plastic cubes with various sticker differences, one semi-translucent plastic cube with regular stickers (white is replaced by black) and two keychain cubes: with one dark blue plastic, the other with grey. Row 4, Cell 4: Non-black plastic cubes in four sizes. One grey cube, one white with round stickers (probably the same as the one in the previous cell), one promo cube, one dark brown plastic cube, two mid-sized white cubes one of which has Mickey Mouse stickers instead of black spots, one smaller red plastic cube, and one grey plastic keychain cube.

Detail: 3x3x3 cabinet, the middle four rows.

Row 5, Cell 1: Some original Rubik's products including my childhood 3x3x3 on the bottom left. Row 5, Cell 2: Two Deluxes (the stickered version in the original box) and one very well made knock-off. Row 5, Cell 3: Five official Rubik's. Row 5, Cell 4: Two packaged cubes from the 80's, one German and one English. The 3x3x3 I competed with in the WC2003, signed by Jess Bonde stating his 16.53 record time. Row 6, Cell 1: The Royal Wedding and P.G.Co 3x3x3. Row 6, Cell 2: Two Le Cube's. Row 6, Cell 3: Five different Wonderful Puzzler packages. Row 6, Cell 4: Two knock-offs with decent packages. Row 7, Cell 1: Six knock-offs of varying quality. Row 7, Cell 2: Six more. Row 7, Cell 3: Seven Mark Longridge cubes. Row 7, Cell 4: JVC Cube and the Aussie cube. Row 8, Cell 1: Seven 2x2x2's, six different designs including two Rubik's, two East Sheens, one Jumbo Popeye and two other promo cubes. Row 8, Cell 2: Two Rubik's Revenges, one sealed. Row 8, Cell 3: Six more 4x4x4's including the Master Cube, the East Sheen, and the 2000 Revenge. Row 8, Cell 4: Four 5x5x5, two originals, one East Sheen and one recent Mefferts.

Detail: 3x3x3 cabinet, the bottom four rows.

Row 9, Cell 1: Bad angle, but there are a bunch of different keychain cubes in there, each with a different design. Row 9, Cell 2: Seventeen different small cubes of varying sizes. Row 9, Cell 3: Five cubes that you don't want to show your kids. Row 9, Cell 4: Smurfs cube, Pac Man cube and octagon (oops, wrong cabinet), three Pochacco cubes of differing sizes. Row 10, Cell 1: Underpopulated cell with Butterflies and Animals. Row 10, Cell 2: Three miscellaneous WP's including Sports Balls, Religious Objects, Flowers, and two promo cubes. Row 10, Cell 3: Five promo cubes, and one with odd letters that I haven't been able to figure out. Row 10, Cell 4: Six promo cubes. Row 11, Cell 1: Six promo cubes. Row 11, Cell 2: Six promo cubes. Row 11, Cell 3: Six promo cubes. Row 11, Cell 4: Six promo cubes. Row 12, Cell 1: Six cartoon character cubes. Row 12, Cell 2: Six cartoon character cubes. Row 12, Cell 3: Six cartoon character cubes, all of which are slightly larger than a normal Rubik's Cube. Row 12, Cell 4: Four character cubes, Aliens, PangPang, Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse

Detail: Other shapes cabinet, the top four rows.

Row 1, Cell 1: Red P.G.Co Snake and a small red Rubik's Snake. Row 1, Cell 2: Blue P.G.Co Snake, two blue and one black Rubik's Snake, all small. Row 1, Cell 3: Green P.G.Co Snake and a red Rubik's Snake. Row 1, Cell 4: Green Highwise Puzzler snake, and a misplaced 2x2x2 Star Wars head. Row 2, Cell 1: Waddington's Orb-It. Row 2, Cell 2: Two Impossiballs, the original (sealed) and the updated version. Row 2, Cell 3: Two Mach balls, one Baseball and one Zodiac. Row 2, Cell 4: Three ChromoSix (or whatever they're called) balls, one letters, one numbers, one just colours. Row 3, Cell 1: Three Dino Cubes and a space-hogging sealed Pyraminx by Meffert. Row 3, Cell 2: Eight different Missing Links including the Tsukuda Original version. Row 3, Cell 3: Seven Missing Links in three different sizes including the original green box version. Row 3, Cell 4: Alexander's Star, painted version, still sealed. Row 4, Cell 1: Two Pyraminxes, one P.G.Co sealed, and one key chain. Row 4, Cell 2: One sealed Pyraminx by Tomy, and two different sizes of The Pyramids. Row 4, Cell 3: Three different Pyraminxes. Two different Mefferts, one with sharp corners, the other with rounded corners. One with gold stickers, probably a knock-off. Row 4, Cell 4: Three different Pyramorphixes. Two reflective versions (one keychain) and one Ruby's Triangle.

Detail: Other shapes cabinet, the middle four rows.

Row 5, Cell 1: Domino, spindle version. Row 5, Cell 2: Hexagon Rhombic Dodecahedron, King Pillow and two corner truncated 3x3x3's. Row 5, Cell 3: This row was still "under construction". Row 5, Cell 4: A Magic Jack and an Alexander's Star. Row 6, Cell 1: All of the puzzles on this row are my builds. Extended Cuboctahedron, Edges Only cube hidden behind a Staircase Cube. Row 6, Cell 2: Ironic Blindman's Cube, Three Colour Cube, Octaminx, Star Prism, Dodecagonal Prism, and an incomplete fake 6x6x6. Row 6, Cell 3: Rubik's Cube in a Jar, Cube in Sphere, Sphere in Cube. Row 6, Cell 4: Master and Junior Missing Links, Starburst, Gem. Row 7, Cell 1: All of the puzzles on this row were created by others. Tony Fisher cell: Fisher's Cylinder Cube, Fisher's Hexagonal Prism, Fisher's Truncated Octahedron, Fisher's Golden Cube, and Truncated Octaminx. Row 7, Cell 2: Extended Cube (Centers Only), a Slim Tower and a Fisher 2 all by Tyler Robbins. A Slim Tower by Jin H Kim Row 7, Cell 3: A Stellated Pyraminx by Mark Longridge. An extended 3x3x3 created by Wynn Walker. A Siamese 6 from Germany. Row 7, Cell 4: Two 4x4x4 mods by Dodd, and a keyboard cube... can't remember who made this one! Row 8, Cell 1: A full-sized Skewb. A keychain Skewb, Pyramorphix and 3D Challenge all signed by Uwe Meffert. Row 8, Cell 2: Execube with real wooden tiles. Two Pyraminxes, one with wooden stickers and one with fake leather stickers. Row 8, Cell 3: Two Crystals, one large and stickered with cartoon characters, the other smaller with tiles. Row 8, Cell 4: Five Ten Billion Barrels, four regular size, one key chain sized.

Detail: Other shapes cabinet, the bottom four rows.

Row 9, Cell 1: A bunch of miscellaneous stuff including three different 3x3x3 key chain balls, a M.U.S.C.L.E. Man, a Rubik's Cube eraser, a pair of ear-rings, the WC2003 give-away pin, four or five buttons, a fake gold semi-functional (as a cube) necklace, and the Rubik's Cube coin from Hungary. Row 9, Cell 2: A bunch different Whip-Its and similar puzzles. Row 9, Cell 3: Two very carefully arranged Rainbow Cubes. One 7-colour, one 14. Row 9, Cell 4: The Tomy Megaminx and the Hungarian Supernova. Row 10, Cell 1: Circus Puzzler, Hungarian Rings, Hockey Puck Puzzle, Rubik's Clock. Row 10, Cell 2: Tricky Disky, Mind Maze, three three-wing Tricky Diskys. Row 10, Cell 3: Three puzzle heads. Mickey Mouse 2x2x2, Star Wars 2x2x2, and Morph 2x2x1. Row 10, Cell 4: A set of the six different Star Wars 2x2x2 puzzle heads. Row 11, Cell 1: Fourteen different Magics. Four different mini Magics, one Kelloggs 4-panel, three Master Magics, five original Matchbox Magics, and one red OddzOn version. Row 11, Cell 2: Diet Coke can, Snake Domino, Color Domino, Brainball, Slide Cube, Rack 'Em Up. Row 11, Cell 3: Square-1 (two versions), Super Cubix, Cube 21 Standard Edition, Cube 21 Silver Edition. Row 11, Cell 4: Ten different Octagonal Prisms of three different sizes. Row 12, Cell 1: Two Masterballs, one Geo (Rainbow) and one "Bundesliga" Duo. Row 12, Cell 2: Three 3x3x3 puzzle balls. Two different baseballs and one soccer ball. Row 12, Cell 3: Two 3x3x3 balls of different sizes and one Equator. Row 12, Cell 4: Two Puzzleballs, one World Cup and one of the four different Lion King versions.