Type-9: FOLDING PUZZLES
These are puzzles that fold, usually to either make different flat pictures or to make different 3-dimensional shapes. I decided to break this one into 2 sub-groups: (a) Puzzles with an object: These are your classic folding puzzles where the object is to make a flat picture or a 3-dimensional shape. (b) Puzzles that you just make shapes with: These may not even qualify as puzzles. They are things like Rubik's snake, that you bend into different shapes. You can challenge people to try to make a particular shape with these (making them legitimate puzzles), or you can simply let people play with them with no goal in mind.
TYPE-9-A: FOLDING PUZZLES, Puzzles with an object to them | |||
---|---|---|---|
Picture | TITLE | MANUFACTURER | DESCRIPTION |
Rubik's Magic | Matchbox | Fold 2x4 squares to make picture of 3 linked rings | |
Rubiks Magic Masters | Matchbox | Fold 2x6 squares to make picture of 6 linked rings | |
Simpsons Rubiks Magic | Matchbox | Fold 2x4 squares to make picture of Homer Simpson | |
Rubik's Magic Jr | Matchbox | Fold 2x2 squares to make picture of mouse & cheese | |
Betcha Cant | Tandem | Fold 6 hex-shaped pieces from start to end shape; very fragile! | |
Gingerbread Man | Professor Puzzle Ltd. | Fold wood blocks to turn gingerbread man into cube | |
Zombie | www.professorpuzzle.com | Fold wood blocks to turn zombie into cube | |
Starcube | California Creations | Transform plastic cube into star and back by folding | |
Yoshi's puzzle | Parker Brothers | Folding triangles make a cube and various other shapes | |
Stacked Blocks | Bits & Pieces | Fold wooden blocks to make a cube | |
Create the Cube | Matchbox | Fold 2x6 flat puzzle to make a 6-sided cube | |
Unknown (9a-1) | (unknown) | Hexagonal cardboard - I don't remember how these work |
TYPE-9-B: FOLDING PUZZLES, Puzzles that you just make shapes with | |||
---|---|---|---|
Klixx | (unknown) | Clicks when bent, makes a ball | |
Polydron | Polydron, Int. Ltd | Make shapes with triangular pieces | |
Rubik's snake | (unknown) | Folding half-cubes | |
Rotangle | Leval | Geometric sculpture with triangles | |
Geoloop | Binary Arts | 24 folding triangles | |
Unknown (9b-1) | (unknown) | 12 plastic pieces with a spring in middle | |
Unknown (9b-2) | (unknown) | 24 black/white triangles on hinges | |
Geomorph 12 | Binary Arts | 12 plastic triangular-sided pieces make shapes |