Rubik's toys!

[sonia]

melannen posted a photo and list of Rubik's toys and I had a lot of those! So fun to see someone else's collection! I got rid of a lot of mine in the recent move. I hope someone else is enjoying them.

From top to bottom of their list, I had:
a keychain-size Barrel, which I probably kept because it was one of my favorites
an Alexander's Star
an Orb (I'd forgotten about that one!)
several sizes of Rubik's cubes, including a tiny one
mini Missing Link
small Pyraminx

I also had:
Rubik's World which was like the rounded "cube" in the bottom row, only with continents rather than just squares.
Rubik's Revenge, a 4x4 cube that I kept and had to remember/re-figure out how to solve.
Rubik's Snake (I think it was Rubik's?) that could be folded into a sphere or a swan
A small tower with columns of different colored small spheres, each column shading dark to light.

Somehow I didn't imagine anyone else would have collected a bunch of these puzzles, and I'm delighted to see I'm wrong about that.

Comments

[melannen]

Ooh I have snakes too! The one I got down just isn't on the shelf yet because I was playing with it... (I have the original 80s packaging for one of them and amusingly it's actually marketed as a "Fidget With-it"

The tower sounds really interesting, a friend of mine has one that sounds kind of like that (which I solved one year at her Christmas party because what else would you do at a party amirite) that I haven't been able to find on any of the websites I used to find the names of mine.

(And of course people collect these! There's a forum. The people on there make my collection seem very small, which is doing a good job helping me resist signing up on the forum.)

[sonia]

I think I kept the tower. I'll look for it and take a picture if I find it.

I have a friend who has an annual puzzle & games New Year's Party. He has an entire *room* for his puzzles (well, and a guest bed is allowed to be there too) and people hang out in there and work on them. Very fun!

Oh my, that forum! Thank you for the link, and I am carefully backing away. Those modified 2x2s sure are cool, though.

[sonia]

Finally posted about the tower puzzle with photos! Let me know if you find the name of this one.