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gear cube by meffert
gear cube by meffertThe all New Gear Cube with 6 color high quality Matt German Vinyl stickers.
The Gear-cube is a brand new concept in cube design and has the following
inventive steps. Using
a full gear mechanism that requires twelve 90° turns to complete one rotation but having said this
it
is still slightly easier then the Rubik’s cube, Designed by M. Oskar van Deventer and inspired
by a
gearing idea by Bram Cohen, it will be Meffert’s Puzzle Of the Year for 2010.
Placing the gears externally, so that their orientation can be seen, Adding
gear teeth to the corner
and edge pieces and using a new speed cube inner core.
These steps result in a twisty puzzle that on the one hand has some of the
features and
attractiveness of the original Rubik’s Cube. Whereas on the other hand it creates a completely
new
and unexpected solving experience.
To summarize, the following aspects add to the attraction of Gear-Cube;
A first solving reward is getting the puzzle to its cubic state. This is
relatively easy.
A second solving reward is getting the puzzle to a state where each face
has only two colors (of
opposite faces).This is a bit harder, but achievable for many people.
Hardest is solving the puzzle as a whole, which is still easier than the
original Rubik’s
Cube.[mefferts.com]
