Rubik's Cube and More

Put-Together and Take-Apart Puzzles

Assembly

The aim is to arrange the pieces so that a certain shape is formed.

17 Piece Packing Cube [flea market, 2 €, in it's original box from GDR, summer 2007]
Super IQ by Profi [flea market, 0,50 €, March 2008]
There are five pieces of 1x1x1, six pieces of 1x2x4 and six pieces of 2x2x3 which are supposed to fit into a 5x5x5 box.

Trickpack by Haba [exchanged, March 2008]
8 wooden blocks exactly fill the box. Yet the additional red block is to be built in.

Hoffmann's Packing Problem or Hoffmann's Packing Puzzle [flea market, 1,50 €, May 2008]
27 identical cuboids are to be packed into the box. The cuboids have the lengths A, B and C, the side lenghts of the box is A+B+C. A, B and C are not equal and the shortest lengths is longer than (A+B+C)/4.

Pentominoes, original German name: Zwölfer-Puzzle [flea market, 1 €, summer 2007]
The twelve (German: zwölf) pieces are each a different composition of five cubes in one layer. Their shapes resemble letters which they are named after. They can be arranged in various two and three dimensional figures.

Brick by Brick by ThinkFun [Christmas present 2007]
Combine the five different pieces made of three bricks each to build one of the 60 walls on the puzzle cards.
Similar games by ThinkFun are Square by Square, Block by Block and Shape by Shape. Rob categorizes these as Pattern Puzzles.

Soma Cube [built it myself, summer 2007]
Seven pieces are to be assembled to build the 3x3x3 Soma Cube. Theses pieces are all polycubes made of three or four cublets which don't form a cuboid. There are 240 possible ways to solve the Soma Cube.
I built four of these Cubes for my fifhs grade math class.

Abraxis Super Game [flea market, 1,50 €, June 2008]
This cube consist of thirteen different pieces. Twelve of them are made up of five cubies, one in made up of four cubies. They can be arranged into a 4x4x4 cube or several other figures.

Tetris Cube by Imagination Games [department store, 12,90 €, February 2008]
Big Brother 3D Cube by Imagination Games [department store, 10,00 €, February 2008]
The Tetris Cube consists of twelve pieces and has 9389 solutions.
The Big Brother 3D Cube was developed by Matt Campbell. It has 13 pieces and 14177 solutions. It was used as a challenge in Germany's seventh season of the tv show.

Cube AC by Vin&Co [Christmas present 2007]
This Cube was designed by Václav Obšívac from Czech Republic. It consists of twelve pieces which are each made up of two prisms with a triangular base. The difficulty is 5+ out of 5.

Campanile [flea market, 2 €]
The differently shaped pieces have to be put into the tower so that it will be flat at the top.

Pyramid, Kugulus by Haba [flea market, present, fall 2007]
The small Pyramid consists of four pieces: two of them have 1x4 balls and two have 2x3 balls. The bigger one is essentially the same but built of six pieces: two of them have 1x4 balls and four of them have 1x3 ball.

Atom Puzzle [flea market, 0,50 €, november 2007]
A pyramid can be built with all given pieces, a smaller pyramid can be built with fewer pieces.
Rob calls this puzzle Fantastic Island.

IQ-Block by Hercules [flea market, 0,50 €, fall 2007]
This version was given out as a promotional item by a bank. The packaging states that there are more than 60 different ways to arrange all ten pieces as a square.

Tangram [flea market, for free]
Pythago by Refo [flea market, 1 €, fall 2007]
7-Puzzle by Educational Toys [flea market, 1 €, June 2008]
dissected T
dissected Square by Wehrfritz [flea market, 2008] Tangram and Pythago are dissected quadrangles. There are several alternative figures that can be assembled with their pieces. Pythago may also be called Ha-Cho. 7-Puzzle is a version of the Japanese Chie-no-Ita. The dissected T is also widely known; I've seen it in an IQ-test.

Crux by Haba [flea market, 1,50 €, summer 2007]
Rob Stegmann calls this a Weave Puzzle or Crossed Sticks Puzzle. The object is to slide in all sticks into the clock. Due to the sticks having a different number of notches, this only succeeds, if a certain sequence is being maintained.

Stacking Puzzle Football [birtday present 2007]
The aim is to stack the six puzzle pieces flat between the top and bottom layer. Think Fun has produced this puzzle in the Prairie Dog Town version. Rob Stegmann says these stacking puzzles are related to weave puzzles, the main difference being that stacking puzzles have bumps on both sides of the pieces.

Cubilus by Haba [flea market, summer 2007]
The eight small cubes are to be connected to a big cube. The holes are arranged so that it's not too easy.

Ball of Whacks by Roger von Oech [present, January 2008]
This thirty-sided rhombic triacontahedron is made up of 30 magnetic pyramid pieces, which can be arranged into different shapes.