Contest! What kind of puzzle would you build? Prizes!

[ErikJ]

a vcube 6x6 that doesn't need modding

 

[TopCuber]

A Hexa-gigaminx or hexa-teraminy or hexa-petaminx or hexa-examinx. (A hexaminx is a megaminx which have been cut to the shape of a cube)

 

[Zyrb]

I'm going to go ahead and assume that it is just a theoretical thing and can be technologically complex, if not then just ignore this as it is pretty far fetch'd. I would love to somehow engineer a 3x3 cube that could help solvers practice certain steps in a method. The cube would be based off a void cube or Rubik's cube bank, so there would be a large cavity in the middle. This would hold the motherboard and microchips and so on. For each cubie, instead of stickers there would be a LED. In one of the centers, lets say white, there would be a micro USB port that would allow you to plug the cube into the computer. On the computer you would choose what step you want to practice, for example the 'first block' of Roux. This would make only the LED's on the first block to light up and turn off all the rest (you could choose which side it is). You then do however many practices of that step you want and plug your cube back in to see how many moves you took on average to solve the step. This could help all cubers improve any and all methods. Also I find myself taking off some stickers on cubes to practice certain steps, and this could save time and help cubers learn and improve new methods, and maybe even help develop new methods if the program was made open source.

 

[KongShou]

I would build a 3x3x3x3, and therefore you cannot see all of the puzzle, that's only possible in another 4 dimensional universe.

It would have 14 "faces", each face is actually a 3x3 cube. You can only see one of the cube at a time. So you would have trouble judging when you have solve the puzzle. So you would need 84 different colours on this "cube"?

Hope my topology was done right, it's probably all nonsense.

 

[Rufus]

I'd make a sort of thing like that : Of all sizes and all colours
It would work in all senses but I don't know how it would do it!
Why ?
Just because I found this puzzle amazing and I love challenges! :tu
PS: It's me who made the 3d drawing

 

[stoic]

I'd like a perfectly tensioned and lubed Zhanchi, capable of going back in time to the 1982 World Championship. I'd love to see how fast those guys really were back in the day...

 

[Riley]

A 3x3x3 with magic color changing stickers/tiles that can change between regular colors to "blank" colors.

This cube would be really fun for BLD solving:
When scrambled, the cube would look like how a normal scrambled cube looks like.
When a person memorizes the cube, he/she would apply pressure to any two opposite sides, as if they were pushing the two sides together.
The stickers/tiles react to the pressure, activate a switch that changes the color of all the stickers to a blank color, like white.
The person now doesn't have to put their blindfold on. They can solve the cube with their BLD method and when they believe they have solved the cube, they can press on any two opposite sides again to make the colors appear. Hopefully they will see a solved cube.

I think this creation would be really cool and appeal to BLD solvers.

 

[antoineccantin]

A 56mm cube that's really fast, smooth, loose, doesn't pop or catch, and doesn't do a weird catching lockup thingy when doing OH F moves.

 

[TheNextFeliks]

Exa-tuttminx. Lol. Tuttminx with 6 layers on each side. Tuttminx and examinx are two of the coolest puzzles. A combination would just be awesome.

Also the turn the color off cube for bld sounds really awesome.

 

[Bunyanderman]

I would attach a rubiks cube to a lock, and you have to solve it to unlock it.

 

[elrog]

Are we allowed to post more than one idea if we have more than one idea? If the answer is no, I can understand why. I just was having trouble deciding which of my ideas to throw out there.

What would I make? I would make a cube that has reverse bandages. Bandaged cubes have 2 pieces that are stuck together and you have to work your way around them to solve the cube. This would have pieces that woudn't be allowed to be put together. This would be done by having a groove that goes on all sides of the cubies that are on the inside of the cube. You would have some sort of piece that can fit into the grooves and connect with a piece that would prevent another piece with the same type of piece from going past eachother. Because you just fit a piece into the groove, you could move where these reverse bandages are. This could be done to all types of cubes. There would need to be some way to indicate where the pieces that fit into the cubies are without doing trial and error.

Why? It would create a puzzle that has varying complexity and difficulty depending on where and how many reverse bandages you put into it. The cube could also be used as a regular cube without and of the reverse bandages in. I think it would just be fun to mess around with the reverse bandages in different patterns, I like the idea of having a puzzle that you can make harder, easier, or just different each time, and I want to win a prize!

If I happen to win, I'd choose the B set first, The A set second, and the C choice third. I just want a 2x2 because I don't have one. If I get B, I'll turn the 3x3 into one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VcUzWUWI94

 

[Lucas Garron]

I've always wanted a proper 3x3x5 with equal-sized, cubic cubies. Just about all the "simple" puzzles I've wanted to see have been mass-produced except for this one.
The simplicity of a 3x3x3 in combination with being able to do extra turns on the outer layers is kind of amusing, and allows for some interesting shapes.

 

[cityzach]

A helicopter cube that turns like a 2x2, helicopter cube, and a skewb. That would be freaking awesome.

Or a 3x3 that turns in a helicopter cube fashion.

 

[flee135]

So I had this idea way back when, and I'm not even sure that it'd be physically possible, but I think it'd be a fun puzzle. It would definitely be possible to simulate on a computer though.

So we have this puzzle:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/...0jZtMVSFRh26_vpmcfalbnf5RQ_r-QBYzU3ZyHt7pwS3n

And the idea is that each of the "faces" of this puzzle can turn by 90 degrees, as well as the three middle slices being able to shift by any number of blocks. My idea is to have a puzzle that just looks like a 3x3, but turns like this. So each of the faces can turn independently of the others, and also the slices can turn 90 degrees independently of the faces. If you try doing an M turn, it will look exactly as if you did an M turn on a normal Rubik's Cube, but if you do an R turn, imagine that you do an R, but the right face doesn't actually change, only the right slice, if that makes sense.

A version of this would definitely be possible if we only have faces turning and the middle slices turning because that's just a shape modification of the above puzzle. I don't know if it's actually possible with the outer layers turning, but I think it'd be really neat!

 

[emolover]

I want to make a bead cube series. This is where for example on the 2x2 version of this there would be a normal 2x2, but the main difficulty of this puzzle is that in a tunnel in a circle that goes around the x y or z axis depending on the face and in this tunnel there are 3 beads that could be twisted around thought the tunnel and go to different permutations and orientations on the puzzle.

This would be a very complicated puzzle to solve. I don't believe this puzzle has been produced.

I will upload a video showing what I mean tomorrow.

 

[Genesis]

3 5x5s, one connected like a siamese cube(Whole UR connected to another cube), while the other one is joined at a 2x2 corner.
The 5x5s would be a cage or something, and allow the pieces to have blocks inside to move from a piece to another, like a 15 puzzle but in a form of a cube, piece or 2 would be empty
Then Have a mechanism such that it is fully functional(That would be insane if this really happens, unless we are living in another universe with different physics...
Reasons
I have always wanted a fully functionable Siamese cube
I love 5x5, although I love 7x7 more
I used to have a puzzle( 3x3x3, but not twisty puzzle) Where there is a different image on each side of the block, which moves about in the puzzle like 15 puzzle, but I lost it years ago
It would be insane

 

[hockey122332]

This isnt really a cube but I would build a cube clock. In the morning it would keep beeping until you pick up the cube and solve it. It would motivate me to get up.

 

[jonlin]

I would build a 15 puzzle based rubik's cube with one empty space in which individual pieces would slide around. It would be cool to make this because it adds extra challenge to slide colors to respective corners and it combines my two favorite puzzles of all time. There would be alot of complications.

 

[blackzabbathfan]

A pyraminx with 5 sides (One side square). That would be cool to see. It would put an interesting spin on my least favorite WCA puzzle.

 

[AndersB]

I would make a transparent 5x5 cube with another, colored, 5x5 inside it. The cubes would be connected with gears in such a way that when you turn the outside cube, the inside cube would turn the opposite way.

This cube wouldn't be very hard to solve, but I think it's a good idea because the concept is new, and because solving in the mirror, which is similar to solving this cube, is great fun. Also it would be really cool to see the mechanism work inside the cube while you turn it.

Thanks for this contest, and I hope I win!