What puzzles to buy?

[dudemanpp]

I have about 50 dollars to spend on puzzles. Does anyone have any recommendations for some puzzles to buy. (I already have a 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, and Octagional Prism)

Thanks.

 

[AvGalen]

MegaMinx, Skewb, Pyraminx, Nintendo Barrel, Clock, (Master) Magic in that order. Some might be pretty hard to get though

 

[David]

Get a Mefferts Megaminx btw not the "new" one. When is Mefferts going to start making Megaminx's again?

 

[icke]

i also have a homer head and a calender cube which is nice to have i think. i will get a rubik's sphere tomorrow or so. i will buy the stuff that avgalen said soon and a square 1 as well. btw ebay is a nice store to buy from and you find (almost) everything.

 

[AvGalen]

Thanks for adding the Square-1 to the list. I completely forgot about it. I would list it after the Nintendo Barrel.

I heard Mefferts will not make new MegaMinxes untill the end of 2007. A positive point might be that Stefan Pochmann told Mefferts about his modifications and that the new MegaMinxes might include them out of the box.

 

[dChan]

Maybe get all the ones you can use in competition first then everything else?

 

[pjk]

That is great news Arnaud. I want to get a megaminx as well... I have waited it seems over a year.

 

[AvGalen]

When I ordered some stuff from 9spuzzles (which is probably the same as cube4you) I decided to just include one of those new megaminxes. They are terrible because they have sharp edges, hard noise, pops, easy clockwise / difficult counterclockwise moves, bad colors, etc..................but I am glad I have a MegaMinx now anyway. (and it was worth the little money it cost)

 

[doubleyou]

I got a cheap minx from cube4you. and I am glad I got one too. but the quality sucks big time. what could I expect from a 5 dollar range. I just added it to my order as it were so cheap.

I hope MEfferts would make a speed solving minx (WITHOUT that clicking mechanism) and yea, better colors

 

[Dirk BerGuRK]

If you are into the speed aspect, I would go for Eastsheen 4x4s and 5x5s (If you don't already have them). Otherwise, the square-1 and the megaminx are awesome puzzles.

 

[Erik]

Huh? Why would sq-1 and megaminx be non-speed puzzles?

 

[dudemanpp]

Is Square-1 hard? I looked at the notation and it seems...complicated.

BTW: I already have Eastsheens 2x2, 4x4, 5x5.

 

[AvGalen]

Square-1 is one of the hardest puzzles to figure out for yourself. Even the beginner solution is not very easy.

But notation has nothing to do with how complicated a puzzle is. I think notation for Magic would be very hard, but the puzzle is really easy.

 

[Dirk BerGuRK]

Originally posted by Erik@Jun 14 2007, 11:12 AM
Huh? Why would sq-1 and megaminx be non-speed puzzles?

I wasn't implying that the square-1 and megaminx puzzles were non speed puzzles. I was merely trying to say (since dudemanpp already has a 2x2, a 4x4, and a 5x5) that if he was interested in improving time, Eastsheen cubes were better than their Rubik's counterparts IMHO. However, since dudemanpp already has all the Eastsheen cubes, I still recommend the square-1 and megaminx. I personally think they make great speed solving puzzles.

 

[Erik]

Ah I see, it wasn't realy clear for me :unsure: maybe because I'm Dutch :huh: