Unlucky Twist

Buy at http://www.shapeways.com/model/30838/unlucky_twist.html. Copyright (c) 2009, M. Oskar van Deventer. Unlucky Twist is a 1x2x13 twisty puzzle. Its telescopic design was inspired by work from Ola Jansson. Unlucky Twist is a very high order twisty puzzle. Despite its high order, Unlucky Twisty is fairly easy to solve. It is mainly a proof of concept of its telescopic design.

This puzzle was 3D-printed using nylon-powder SLS technology, which explains its price. It is the very first prototype, costing its designer and maker a lot of money to create. Please do not confuse it for a cheap mass-produced puzzle.

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[tianyulu]

Can you ask Uwe Meffert to mass produce this puzzle? I really want to buy one.

[OskarPuzzle]

@tianyulu If you really want to buy one, then just buy it. Of course it would be nice if someone else would invest several $10.000 to save you $100. But the world's market for this type of puzzles is limited, I am afraid ...

[Berntisso]

I love it. Same whith all the 1x2xn's. But why unlucky?

[OskarPuzzle]

@Berntisso Some people associate the number 13 with unlucky

[blizzardkb]

Yikes!!!

I'm scared of your design skills, man!

Impressive stuff!

[kornfan140]

That's unbelievably smooth

[NeoCube9827]

@OskarPuzzle

how many cubes do you have????

[Bananadine]

Thanks for showing the telescoping. It really helped me understand--I'd been wondering how such a puzzle could exist!

Am I correct in thinking that this design could be warped into a disk shape, where there were six concentric, two-section rings on each side, instead of six pairs of similar-looking cube shapes? Maybe easier to design, but harder to turn.... Hmm and I guess it could be a sphere too, or a 2x13 Rubik's cube... haha look at me, I'm scaling the foothills of twisty-puzzle theory!

[jumping4free]

@OskarPuzzle and they are very wrong. 13 is my LUCKY number. and get this. Friday the 13th is the best day in the world

[MrDelirage]

geen nederlands accent hoor...

[richard2mitchell]

@OskarPuzzle LOL right...... i make them for 45 bucks well mine is 1x2x10 not 13 it only takes me about 8 days to make it

[OskarPuzzle]

@richard2mitchell Please be so kind to read the description. It says "please do not mistake this for a cheap mass-produced puzzle". It is a one-of-a-kind prototype, that took a lot of money to create and produce.

[richard2mitchell]

@OskarPuzzle $300 for this?