[Help Thread] The Puzzle identification thread

[Michael Womack]

If you search for yj logo or Yong Jun logo, you won't get these symbols coming up. Not when I searched anyway..
Plus YJ isn't as big a player as Moyu and Gan etc. That and I only have a handful of YJ cubes. I certainly wasn't familiar with the logo.
Many thanks all the same.

Yeah you're right. But Yj is one of the oddball cubing companies when it comes to their logos. They originally had a red oval logo that said YJ in yellow, then sometime in 2015/16 or so they switched to the 2x2 Mandarin grid text logo. But nowadays YJ uses a combination of logos. The logos include the 2x2 Mandarin grid text logo, MGC, a "3D" logo that has YJ with Young Jun Toys written in-between the Y and J, and finally the OG Red Oval logo. It really depends on what product, package, or even company promo info that Yj decides to use what version of their logo.

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

What cube is this

 

[Michael Womack]

View attachment 25602
What cube is this

Dayan LingYung v2

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

Anybody know if these are the mag or non magnetic Shadow and Spark?

 

[JDAW6]

View attachment 28902Anybody know if these are the mag or non magnetic Shadow and Spark?

Check the edge pieces

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

Check the edge pieces

I don't have them yet.

 

[JDAW6]

I don't have them yet.

Omg I seem like such an idiot now

 

[toker5]

I have an old Alpha cube, but I cannot remember where I got it nor which type it is. I've checked this thread:

Review of Main 3x3x3 Cube Models and Clarification on the Naming System of Type A

Review of Main 3x3x3 Cube Models and Clarification on the Naming System of Type A Update Log I will be keeping an update log of this guide. Since I am constantly coming to new insights and learning new information about these cubes, I will be updating this post frequently. June 10, 2009 Posted...

www.speedsolving.com

but none of the pictures match.

What's special about this one is the edges: rounded edges outwards, but non-rounded edges towards the center, making the appearance of the faces of the cube to be more seamless.

Anyone know which one of the Type A / Alpha cubes this is?

 

[Kami]

i thought this was a gan x because it has gan x style adjustable magnets but the knuts arent agjustable. it just has the gan logo on the thing. my other gan x does have adgustable tensions or whatever

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

i thought this was a gan x because it has gan x style adjustable magnets but the knuts arent agjustable. it just has the gan logo on the thing. my other gan x does have adgustable tensions or whatever

That is the GAN X V1. The other one you have should be the GAN X V2.

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

I have an old Alpha cube, but I cannot remember where I got it nor which type it is. I've checked this thread:

Review of Main 3x3x3 Cube Models and Clarification on the Naming System of Type A

Review of Main 3x3x3 Cube Models and Clarification on the Naming System of Type A Update Log I will be keeping an update log of this guide. Since I am constantly coming to new insights and learning new information about these cubes, I will be updating this post frequently. June 10, 2009 Posted...

www.speedsolving.com

but none of the pictures match.

What's special about this one is the edges: rounded edges outwards, but non-rounded edges towards the center, making the appearance of the faces of the cube to be more seamless.

Anyone know which one of the Type A / Alpha cubes this is?

I'm pretty sure this is an Alpha IV.

 

[Kami]

That is the GAN X V1. The other one you have should be the GAN X V2.

oh

 

[toker5]

I'm pretty sure this is an Alpha IV.

No, definitively not a Alpha IV. Based on the pictures in the linked thread, and in this video:

, both the edge and corner pieces are different.

 

[toker5]

I have an old Alpha cube, but I cannot remember where I got it nor which type it is. I've checked this thread:

Review of Main 3x3x3 Cube Models and Clarification on the Naming System of Type A

Review of Main 3x3x3 Cube Models and Clarification on the Naming System of Type A Update Log I will be keeping an update log of this guide. Since I am constantly coming to new insights and learning new information about these cubes, I will be updating this post frequently. June 10, 2009 Posted...

www.speedsolving.com

but none of the pictures match.

What's special about this one is the edges: rounded edges outwards, but non-rounded edges towards the center, making the appearance of the faces of the cube to be more seamless.

Anyone know which one of the Type A / Alpha cubes this is?

Found it! It's really hard to find info at all about these old type A cubes! But this video by camcuber (speedcubeshop) has the cube:

And somebody in the comments of the video mentioned that it's the Haiyan's Haiyan cube. Remember it now

 

[Discomantis]

Does this look like a Gan 251 M Leap or Pro
Wondering in case I swapped cubes with someone at a comp

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

Does this look like a Gan 251 M Leap or Pro View attachment 30027
Wondering in case I swapped cubes with someone at a comp

Leap. Big core magnets.

 

[Discomantis]

Leap. Big core magnets.

I was thinking so. That must mean that I swapped my Pro with someone’s leap

 

[J41]

Hi all. I'm struggling to understand the differences between the GAN Air SM and the GAN Air SM (2019 Version). I've heard that the latter has "minor changes to piece design", for example, but haven't had much luck finding specifics.

Is anybody aware of a way to identify which version is which?

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

Hi all. I'm struggling to understand the differences between the GAN Air SM and the GAN Air SM (2019 Version). I've heard that the latter has "minor changes to piece design", for example, but haven't had much luck finding specifics.

Is anybody aware of a way to identify which version is which?

I found that the best way to find out is to pop the center cap and look at the GES nuts. If they have the infinite screw design, it is the 2017. If they are notched and latch in rather than screwing in, it is the 2019 version.

 

[Gecko777]

Omg I seem like such an idiot now

now?