I want a puzzle that is really, really hard

[qqwref]

Find a girl

There's your puzzle

He said really really hard... not IMPOSSIBLE.

Haha! Yeah, I think that is a puzzle many people never truly master, even with instructions!

If you're looking for a very very difficult physical twisty puzzle, the hardest I know of is the Big Chop which can be bought for roughly $300 (keep in mind it's not mass-produced). This is a real-life analogue of one of the most difficult Gelatinbrain puzzles; the best solve ever done on the computer took 3.5 hours and 1904 moves, and that's from someone who knew the whole method before he started. This one is even harder to do than the Gelatinbrain one, though, because you can't do a turn at a simple click of a mouse, but only by using the cage (which takes a few seconds per turn and might be disorienting). In short, this puzzle is probably impossible to solve (without disassembly) faster than an hour or two, and finding a solution by itself is definitely no easy task.

 

[Hadley4000]

along the same lines as isis you have this and this. Neither are that much less expensive. You could win some cash if you solve them though!

I looked at those, but they are just too much money.

 

[PEZenfuego]

If only the hexaminx was mass-produced...

 

[blah]

Gordian's Knot.

Or what Stefan said.

 

[xbrandationx]

get a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle, and solve it flipped over

 

[LSDJ]

Get A Revomaze. If you want hard start with bronze or silver but beware they become very addictive. The best puzzles I own!

 

[shelley]

If you can get your hands on a ghost cube, that should keep you busy for an hour or two. You'll also have a ready retort for the people who say "I used to peel the stickers off/take it apart" regarding the Rubik's cube. Just put a scrambled ghost cube in front of them and say "Good luck with that strategy, then."

 

[Hadley4000]

Get A Revomaze. If you want hard start with bronze or silver but beware they become very addictive. The best puzzles I own!

That's one I'd like, but I can't afford it.

 

[ElderKingpin]

void cube?

 

[hyunchoi98]

void cube?

I think that's too easy.

If you want long to solve, custom make a 20x20 cube.

Try making custom puzzles from shape shifting puzzles!
That I think would be hard to make and solve.

 

[V-te]

World Hunger? Global Warming?

 

[DcF1337]

Void 1x1?

 

[Zubon]

I am also always looking for harder puzzles to solve. The more you solve, the better you get at solving new puzzles the less you see puzzles that challenge you. There are a lot of puzzles I don't own but have already figured out a solution to.

A lot of puzzles that are just bigger versions of the original ones (large cubes, super square-1, 3x3x4, gigaminx) and are not really harder than the original ones except you may have to do it twice. Sometimes there are some interesting parities like in the "crazy 4x4" which can be interesting.

I think that the most difficult puzzles for me are shape mods of existing puzzles. Sometimes it is really hard to get it into your head that puzzles like pillowed mastermorphix are just a 3x3.

 

[xXzaKerXx]

A gigaminx o.0? and i think there's something called a terraminx out already correct me if i'm wrong but i THINK that's what it's called

 

[kinch2002]

5-dimensional cube

+1. The 3x3x3x3 took me about 10 hours (spread across a week) so I can imagine that you won't manage the 6x6x6x6x6 within a week

 

[Hadley4000]

I am also always looking for harder puzzles to solve. The more you solve, the better you get at solving new puzzles the less you see puzzles that challenge you. There are a lot of puzzles I don't own but have already figured out a solution to.

A lot of puzzles that are just bigger versions of the original ones (large cubes, super square-1, 3x3x4, gigaminx) and are not really harder than the original ones except you may have to do it twice. Sometimes there are some interesting parities like in the "crazy 4x4" which can be interesting.

I think that the most difficult puzzles for me are shape mods of existing puzzles. Sometimes it is really hard to get it into your head that puzzles like pillowed mastermorphix are just a 3x3.

Yea, that's my problem. That's why for my huge challenge I might want to stray away from twisty puzzles and go for something like the Isis or Kuku or Ramisis, or something to that liking. They're just so damn expensive!

 

[Owen]

To bad the Praxis cube is not mass produced,...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vWtkd6svaA

 

[LSDJ]

Revomaze also has a plastic version available known as the Extreme series, they are the same puzzle as it's big brother counterpart but does not include you in the Competition they are having but instead gives you a code to a prize site. Worth checking out.

 

[Stefan]

Isis or Kuku or Ramisis, or something to that liking.
They're just so damn expensive!

Put 'em on your Christmas wishlist?

This kind of puzzle looks like a very good idea. I think there are communities/forums for those as well, maybe they could help you better at finding good ones with lower prices? I doubt many people here will be able to.

 

[PEZenfuego]

How hard is the pyraminx crystal? What about the golden cube. They are both modifications of other (easier) puzzles but I imagine that without any guidance at all, these puzzles would be difficult to solve.