@@nerdiconium1365 The gimmick of the Orbit Cube is that, when you turn a face 90deg, the four circles on the inside also turn 90deg in the same direction. You can't turn the circles manually. So: - If the puzzle is solved (or if you've turned the non-red/orange sides 180deg only), the vertically bandaged circle pieces block the red/orange sides - If you turn one or two of the non-red/orange sides 90deg, that still doesn't unblock the red/orange sides thanks to the vertically bandaged circle pieces that weren't included in the side(s) you turn - If you turn one non-red/orange side 90deg, you can't go ahead and turn a different non-red/orange side after that because the circles on the side you had turned become horizontally bandaged, blocking any other sides So it's essentially just a floppy cube (3x3x1) but with orbit pieces
Video is clearly meant to appeal to a specific target audience that I'm not a part of, but I went and accidentally found it really funny anyway despite knowing absolutely nothing about cube puzzles.
@@metachirality well, the old versions (depicted in this video too) are equally bad - and of course the main feature of the official rubik's cube product was being unbreakable, so your children can throw it at through a wall, and then it still survives to your grandchildren. But nowadays the "speed-cube rubik's cubes" are literally officially rebranded "chinese knockoffs". It went full circle.
I love it when people are clearly passionate about something I personally know nothing about. Like yeah those all sound like annoying little nitpicks but it sure is fun to hear about it
Got recommended this despite not engaging with Rubik's cube content for the past 2 or so years. Used to collect nxnxn cubes until I got to 12x12 I think; then I stopped while finishing college. Loving the humor, and this might convince me to go buy a weird cube or just alternative puzzle like a pyramix now, congrats.
This feels like the classic case of: "This product is super popular!" "Great! Now what?" "... How about we use [insert feature here] and put it on [insert cube here]?" "I don't know... [Insert feature here] wouldn't work well with [insert cube here] and-" "We'll make money~" "Let's do it!"
I love that the "Super Fisher Cube" from Calvin's puzzle actually makes it easier than a standard one because you cant hit parity if you know which way round middle layer edges go
I'm not ashamed to admit I own most of the cubes mentioned. Hate solving them though, so I never do unless a guest comes over and thinks it would be fun to scramble all the cubes on my shelf
and about the even layer dodecahedra the newer versions that are being made are only being made in stickerless which means you cant get the proper version if you get one of those :/
Yeah it's unfortunate that a lot of the nonwca puzzles aren't really standardized so you get this mishmash of nonsense. There are certain cube collectors who will basically buy anything and these companies feed into that idea. Also, I have to imagine that some of the designers over at Calvin's want to be the next Erno Rubik.I mean I don't blame them, it is the most popular toy of all time.
Most of the designers of the base puzzles are independent of Calvin's Puzzle, but their names get put on the puzzle and in the full name of the puzzle. The video is more about the variations, which are all done by Calvin
@@LeoStaley Sorry about that; I did mean "you". I'm saying I see you in comments sections all the time in various videos I watch. I am glad that you have wandered onto the comments section of a video of mine as well. I acknowledge that I completely ignored the subject matter of the comment you wrote, so I'll try to make up for it: It is true that the ShengShou Crazy 2x2x2 and Crazy 2x2x4 are very difficult to obtain as of now, because they were first produced many years ago and they haven't been restocked in a while. I only brought them up in this video because the entire video is just me cherrypicking the funniest quirks I could find and I thought that Crazy 2x2x4 existing and not the 2x2x2 cross cube itself was especially funny (and I have pointed it out in the past), so I thought it would be appropriate for this video
The image in the video is the puzzle's solved state. The goal of the puzzle is to get it into that shape, with the weird bit sticking out like that. If you're asking how it turns, it's mechanically the same as a regular 4x4x4 cube, but some of its pieces have different external shapes, which is why it looks weird from the outside.
If you meant supercubes, then yes, picture cubes require the centre pieces to be rotated a certain way, so they are supercubes. The stickers I mentioned in the video are just one way of requiring the centres to be oriented, I've also seen putting arrows on each sticker and a few others
Been trying to find one 3x5x5 cross puzzle with hexagons at each end but can't remember its name. Made up by a guy who made a contest for people to innovate on the design and I can't find it anywhere. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
If you did that, the 3x3x5 would have two yellow faces and the 3x3x7 would have two white faces, so you would have to swap some of the stickers between the two cubes as well
Nice video! But none of the twisty puzzle companies you talked about are Rubik's Cube companies, as only Spin Master has the rights to that name. I'm sure you can relate to me getting mildly annoyed about a detail like that :)
The title is clickbait. "Twisty Puzzle Companies" would have indeed been more accurate, but I think it's a less recognisable term and the one I did use is still reasonably related to what I'm talking about; twisty puzzles are often colloquially referred to as "Rubik's cubes". You are correct, though
A lot of these feel like gimmicks of the exact same mechanism, just changing up the shape, and I know a lot of people are fascinated with this type of puzzle, but I'm actually kind of glad that I never became one of those people who's really good at solving them, not because it's bad or anything, but because I don't see a genuine advantage to perfecting the skill. What is it transferable to? Other shapes of the exact same product? There's all running an army of people out there who can solve these things in a matter of seconds, and computers that can solve it even faster, but what are they contributing to the world in general? I'm genuinely asking because I don't know why it's so popular.
@@tastyl2356 Yes, I'm not challenging that, but I literally don't understand the fascination. Do you? From my perspective it's a bit like collecting decorative jacks. I know each is functional, but they seem functionally identical, so the interest lies in the visual novelty?
there's multiple parts to the cubing community - some enjoy speedsolving more than collecting various puzzles. speedsolving, especially depending on the puzzle requires years of optimisation and dedicated practice. however, on the collecting side, most puzzle vary drastically in their solves. it is true that some puzzles are simply shape mods of others, however it is far from the truth to say that they are all functionally identical. even in official puzzles, for example, take a skewb - a puzzle that rotates around its corners. this clearly cannot be compared to a 3x3 for example.
@@rabbitmario751 Dude, why the hell are you being so mean? Yes, I don't know about rubric cubes, I literally have zero interest in them and asked about why others were fascinated in them.
{@yellowmarkers oh, thank you! and, sorry for being a bit harsh there, dunno why i was like that... it's honestly a pretty small thing. i should, perhaps think more about when my tone when commenting ^^}
I'll keep this in mind for the next video. Oftentimes there's extra information I don't want to leave out, but isn't all that important and I can't find a way to fit in the video script without it getting too cluttered. But, I'll try to minimise that next time
I can't believe I forgot about ShengShou's higher-order circle cubes being asymmetric
Their crazy 4x4 v1 is not a real 4x4 :(
Question about the orbit cube variant: can the round pieces on the non-red/orange sides not be turned 90 degrees?
@@nerdiconium1365 The gimmick of the Orbit Cube is that, when you turn a face 90deg, the four circles on the inside also turn 90deg in the same direction. You can't turn the circles manually. So:
- If the puzzle is solved (or if you've turned the non-red/orange sides 180deg only), the vertically bandaged circle pieces block the red/orange sides
- If you turn one or two of the non-red/orange sides 90deg, that still doesn't unblock the red/orange sides thanks to the vertically bandaged circle pieces that weren't included in the side(s) you turn
- If you turn one non-red/orange side 90deg, you can't go ahead and turn a different non-red/orange side after that because the circles on the side you had turned become horizontally bandaged, blocking any other sides
So it's essentially just a floppy cube (3x3x1) but with orbit pieces
Really???
WTF is a "circle cube" lmao. That's an oxymoron
Video is clearly meant to appeal to a specific target audience that I'm not a part of, but I went and accidentally found it really funny anyway despite knowing absolutely nothing about cube puzzles.
it will never not be funny to me that what are basically chinese knockoffs are higher quality than the official product when it comes to rubik's cubes
As a semi-part of the community this is part of (I’m not really a collector or modder) this is the same reaction I had
@@metachirality well, the old versions (depicted in this video too) are equally bad - and of course the main feature of the official rubik's cube product was being unbreakable, so your children can throw it at through a wall, and then it still survives to your grandchildren. But nowadays the "speed-cube rubik's cubes" are literally officially rebranded "chinese knockoffs". It went full circle.
Same bro
Same
I love it when people are clearly passionate about something I personally know nothing about. Like yeah those all sound like annoying little nitpicks but it sure is fun to hear about it
enthusiast : cube as permutation puzzle
company : cube as plastic toy line w/ variants
FINALLY, somebody's talking about this. THANK YOU
Finally I don't have to compile normal examples to confuse my friends with
4:10 finally someone mentioned that even layered minxes AREN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE CENTRES
I got randomly recommended this video and now I have seen more cursed Rubik's Cube than ever before
one of the best cubing videos i've seen in a while, i gotta say
I imagine if an ancient human found any of these puzzles they would declare them evil
Got recommended this despite not engaging with Rubik's cube content for the past 2 or so years. Used to collect nxnxn cubes until I got to 12x12 I think; then I stopped while finishing college. Loving the humor, and this might convince me to go buy a weird cube or just alternative puzzle like a pyramix now, congrats.
This feels like the classic case of:
"This product is super popular!"
"Great! Now what?"
"... How about we use [insert feature here] and put it on [insert cube here]?"
"I don't know... [Insert feature here] wouldn't work well with [insert cube here] and-"
"We'll make money~"
"Let's do it!"
oh my God I sincerely hope you keep making more videos. I absolutely love this frantic style, my wife and I were _dying_ watching this
I love that the "Super Fisher Cube" from Calvin's puzzle actually makes it easier than a standard one because you cant hit parity if you know which way round middle layer edges go
As a cuber who loves twisty puzzle mods, this is hilarious.
rubik's panopticon
_Pandemonium - heaven peirce her plays_
This scramble... to solve... ME?
I have a mirror 2x2 that isn't a true mirror and it pisses me off to no end. Also would love to see more of these
I was so disapointed that I had to 3d print extensions for my 2x2 so it bacema real mirror 2x2
This video is actually great and very funny! Keep it up!
Katie over my shoulder: "thaaat sounds like a rant video." 🤣
Who’s Katie? Nobody knows about your personal life we haven’t met you
Now this video is some good 'tism ramblings, you got any more?
Me, who has never solved a normal rubik's cube: Ah yes, what a strange conundrum.
Oh, I have that floppy ghost cube. It's not my favourite but it's kind of neat
the first one should have been called the floppy mirror pentagon
I'm not ashamed to admit I own most of the cubes mentioned. Hate solving them though, so I never do unless a guest comes over and thinks it would be fun to scramble all the cubes on my shelf
6:30 this one legit makes the cube easier to solve bc there would be no edge parity
they're fine cuz we don't actually want to solve them they are there just to fill up the space
Part 2? Please.......
That was kind of amazing. Thank you.
my hyperfocused ADHD couldn't even keep up with this
hell nah not the cube glazing from calvin
3:07 the like button glowed for some reason?
Best guess is that youtube misheard "master" as "smash the" so highlighter the like button lol
@@missingsemiWhat an odd feature to for them to add in the first place
Cant wait for skewed cubic circular star mirrored 6x5x3x7 fardagon
5:16 I was laughing with water in my mouth and it went in my nose
You need more subscribers 🔥
ym1 popping off
Can someone talk about the maddening mess of the Mixup puzzles
2:57 killjoys
holy shit jtoh
What
@@spidey5558 you wouldn't know
3x3xX bloat is a real epidemic
Ok but what if we mixed every single cube from this company into one really big one
and about the even layer dodecahedra the newer versions that are being made are only being made in stickerless which means you cant get the proper version if you get one of those :/
I love this video, it's fun and interesting but tbh there's so much text sometimes and I keep struggling to pause and read all
Your should named this video ,,cursed Rubik’s cube,, 😂😂😂.
2:46 Mmh ah yes this is very information
Yeah it's unfortunate that a lot of the nonwca puzzles aren't really standardized so you get this mishmash of nonsense. There are certain cube collectors who will basically buy anything and these companies feed into that idea. Also, I have to imagine that some of the designers over at Calvin's want to be the next Erno Rubik.I mean I don't blame them, it is the most popular toy of all time.
Most of the designers of the base puzzles are independent of Calvin's Puzzle, but their names get put on the puzzle and in the full name of the puzzle. The video is more about the variations, which are all done by Calvin
I can't find that 2x2 cross cube to buy anywhere anymore
You are everywhere
@@yellowmarkers did you mean they? Because I haven't actually looked for them in years, maybe it's changed.
@@LeoStaley Sorry about that; I did mean "you". I'm saying I see you in comments sections all the time in various videos I watch. I am glad that you have wandered onto the comments section of a video of mine as well. I acknowledge that I completely ignored the subject matter of the comment you wrote, so I'll try to make up for it:
It is true that the ShengShou Crazy 2x2x2 and Crazy 2x2x4 are very difficult to obtain as of now, because they were first produced many years ago and they haven't been restocked in a while. I only brought them up in this video because the entire video is just me cherrypicking the funniest quirks I could find and I thought that Crazy 2x2x4 existing and not the 2x2x2 cross cube itself was especially funny (and I have pointed it out in the past), so I thought it would be appropriate for this video
@@yellowmarkers speedrunning videos? math videos? General edutainment?
@@LeoStaley Mostly math videos, but I've seen you in a few other places as well
I don't really do Rubik's Cubes, how do they suspect you to solve the one at 5:24
Does it even move???
The image in the video is the puzzle's solved state. The goal of the puzzle is to get it into that shape, with the weird bit sticking out like that. If you're asking how it turns, it's mechanically the same as a regular 4x4x4 cube, but some of its pieces have different external shapes, which is why it looks weird from the outside.
@@yellowmarkers Rather cool I guess, though it looks rather hard LOL.
Thank you for the explanation!
GREAT FUCKING VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With your mention of stickers making it look like a hypercube. Doesn't that make picture cubes "hyper cubes" as well?
If you meant supercubes, then yes, picture cubes require the centre pieces to be rotated a certain way, so they are supercubes. The stickers I mentioned in the video are just one way of requiring the centres to be oriented, I've also seen putting arrows on each sticker and a few others
3:11 I like it!
The fact that more companies keep making them tells me that there are people actively buying these and I want to know who
This video gives jan misali vibes
Been trying to find one 3x5x5 cross puzzle with hexagons at each end but can't remember its name. Made up by a guy who made a contest for people to innovate on the design and I can't find it anywhere. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
You're thinking of Gregoire Pfennig's Dual Hexangle: ua-cam.com/video/bGKkwBqBRZ8/v-deo.html
@@yellowmarkers thank you. I've been searching 'custom rubik's puzzle' and this never came up
...What?
i really hate calvins puzzle for their lazy variants and disgusting prices, they make a few cool puzzles tho
1:33 just buy 2 of them and swap the pieces around. Profit.
If you did that, the 3x3x5 would have two yellow faces and the 3x3x7 would have two white faces, so you would have to swap some of the stickers between the two cubes as well
CalvinsPuzzles does piece swap mods so much, it's so lazy imo to just try to sell more editions of puzzles
My brain is on life suport
4:56 No
It’s a cash grab
exactly this. Doing low effort just for some weird people to waste their money to gain big profit
Real. . .
ah yes
horros beyond my comphrehension
i have no idea what this guy is talking about
lol, more pls
Part 2 is in the works
Nice video! But none of the twisty puzzle companies you talked about are Rubik's Cube companies, as only Spin Master has the rights to that name. I'm sure you can relate to me getting mildly annoyed about a detail like that :)
The title is clickbait. "Twisty Puzzle Companies" would have indeed been more accurate, but I think it's a less recognisable term and the one I did use is still reasonably related to what I'm talking about; twisty puzzles are often colloquially referred to as "Rubik's cubes". You are correct, though
Why do you sound like my friend lmao
A lot of these feel like gimmicks of the exact same mechanism, just changing up the shape, and I know a lot of people are fascinated with this type of puzzle, but I'm actually kind of glad that I never became one of those people who's really good at solving them, not because it's bad or anything, but because I don't see a genuine advantage to perfecting the skill. What is it transferable to? Other shapes of the exact same product? There's all running an army of people out there who can solve these things in a matter of seconds, and computers that can solve it even faster, but what are they contributing to the world in general? I'm genuinely asking because I don't know why it's so popular.
people have hobbies
@@tastyl2356 Yes, I'm not challenging that, but I literally don't understand the fascination. Do you? From my perspective it's a bit like collecting decorative jacks. I know each is functional, but they seem functionally identical, so the interest lies in the visual novelty?
@@FurryEskimo they are not all functionally identical, you dont get it cause you have no idea what youre talking about
there's multiple parts to the cubing community - some enjoy speedsolving more than collecting various puzzles. speedsolving, especially depending on the puzzle requires years of optimisation and dedicated practice. however, on the collecting side, most puzzle vary drastically in their solves. it is true that some puzzles are simply shape mods of others, however it is far from the truth to say that they are all functionally identical. even in official puzzles, for example, take a skewb - a puzzle that rotates around its corners. this clearly cannot be compared to a 3x3 for example.
@@rabbitmario751 Dude, why the hell are you being so mean? Yes, I don't know about rubric cubes, I literally have zero interest in them and asked about why others were fascinated in them.
{this video has so much split-second text holy shit please slow it down a bit}
I'm working on a second part, so if I finish that, I'll make sure to tone down the split-second text. Sorry about that
{@yellowmarkers oh, thank you! and, sorry for being a bit harsh there, dunno why i was like that... it's honestly a pretty small thing. i should, perhaps think more about when my tone when commenting ^^}
Please lay off the text that appears for a split second that you need to pause to read, I’m less than a minute in and already sick of it
I'll keep this in mind for the next video. Oftentimes there's extra information I don't want to leave out, but isn't all that important and I can't find a way to fit in the video script without it getting too cluttered. But, I'll try to minimise that next time
Congrats to the Yuxin Master Pyraminx for calling a "speedcube" without magnets...
AND MAGNETS IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF A SPEEDCUBE.
no it isnt? speedcubes existed long before magnets
"Fun" fact:I have more than 40 more videos than you, but less than a quarter as many subscribers
Fml
nobody asked
either it's because your videos are low quality (not an insult) or yellowmarkers makes more high quality videos than yours. Pick your poison
Literally no one cares, just make shorts or high quality content and you'll get subs
Grr imagine having a youtube channel... Nobody care! 😂🤬 blah blh bleh. You have subs? Yhat's so mean !! Grrrrrrr