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5 Alternative To the Original Rubik’s Cube

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People go crazy for speed cube puzzles, Rubik’s cubes in all shapes, versions and forms, so why not give the public what it wants with another set of unique brain busters that both challenge you and make you smarter as you solve your way through shapes and colors?

ShengShou Megaminx Speed Cube Rubik’s Cube

The ShengShou Megaminx Speed Cube Rubik’s Cube is the popular form of Rubik’s Cubes these days: a dodecahedron-shaped puzzle with 50 movable pieces compared to the 20 pieces a 3×3 cube. It’s great for fans of speed solving. It’s available here on  Amazon.

Dayan Creative Gem Cube Speed Cube Brain Teaser Toy

A great gift for adults and children alike, the Dayan Creative Gem Cube Speed Cube Brain Teaser Toy comes with a very unique design, making it a special speed cube type puzzle to solve, testing both patience and mental skill. It’s available for $25.01.

ShengShou Pyraminx Speedcubing Puzzle Alternative Rubik’s Cube

Personally, the pyramid style of speed cubes is my favorite, which makes the ShengShou Pyraminx Speedcubing Puzzle Alternative Rubik’s Cube something I highly recommend. It comes in different sizes, and the prices begin at $3.81, going up to $16.89 including shipping.

Dayan Creative Gem Cube Speed Cube Brain Teaser Toy

A huge puzzle compared to the others in this category, it’s part of the fantastic series that consist of an assortment of bizarre, many-sided puzzles that resemble multifaceted gemstones. It’s available for $42.81.

A-Maze-Ball Maze Game

A unique item on the list, it isn’t a speed cube or Rubik’s cube. Instead, it’s a maze ball game that improves hand-eye coordination and spatial relations for those always seeking to upgrade themselves, coming in three different difficulty settings. Each ball costs $9.99.

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10 Cool Rubik’s Cubes

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The world is still fascinated by Rubik’s Cubes, even when it’s been decades since the game came out for the first time. In order to keep people interested, sometimes the only thing companies change is the design, while the mechanics remain the same. It still works, retaining the magic of the original cube puzzle.

Cool Rubik’s Cubes Google Chrome Edition

Known as the Ball of Whacks, it is a a set of 30 magnetic plastic blocks, and each individual piece of the Ball of Whacks is a “golden ratio” rhombic pyramid, held in place by 180 rare earth magnets. This special G-Chrome edition is available for $57.

ShengShou 3 x 3 Mirror Cube Puzzle

The ShengShou mirror cube looks more like a mini transformer trying to get into car mode than a regular Rubik’s cube puzzle, giving you the same puzzle solving experience from a different angle. Available for $5.

YJ Yulong Stickerless Cube Puzzle

Having a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube isn’t a new concept, unless you leave the stickers out of the process, making it into a transparent, exposed toy puzzle to mess around with. It’s less about the different it offers when it comes to playability, and more about the unique design.Available for $6.99

Tik-Tac-Toe Cube – 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube

The KreNol cube is another nice twist on the Rubik’s Cube, with the end result giving you six different tic-tac-toe boards that have been won by the circle. Available for $20.

Magic Combination 3d Gear Cube 

A very interesting design, making the cube seem like pieces of wood or rock meshed together to give it its unique look. Another speciality unlike ordinary 3×3×3 cube, are the four water chestnut as the center fixing the whole cube. Available for $6.95.

ShengShou Megaminx Speed Cube Puzzle

The dodecahedron-shaped puzzle has 50 movable pieces compared to the 20 pieces a 3×3 cube has. It’s great for those who try to make their puzzle experience about speed solving. Available for $7.64.

Dayan ZhanChi 3x3x3 6-Color Stickerless Speed Cube

The Dayan ZhanChi stickerless speed cube is about simple colors and solving it quickly thanks to its excellent, smooth design and build. It’s available for $12.90.

Rubik’s Cube Game

You can’t go wrong with a classic Rubik’s Cube that comes with a solution guide for those who like cheats and walkthroughs, and also a display stand for when you finally complete it and want to show off to anyone who comes into your home. Available for $9.99.

Original Rubik’s cube, Vintage Condition

A vintage item from the original Rubik’s Cube days that is the Blackjack or Poker version of the puzzle, matching up cards instead of colors. Available for $25.

ShengShou 5x 5 x 5 V III Speed Cube Puzzle

Another ShengShou product with a twist: It’s colorful and fast just like their other products, but the 5×5 edition makes it a little bit more difficult. Available for $7.08

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10 Rubik’s Cube Type Puzzles

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Some things never go obsolete. One of them is the Rubik’s Cube game, offering a cube puzzle that’s been going strong for over 40 years. Only to make things interesting, designers are coming up with great ideas to make Rubik’s Cube type puzzles, only with better playability and increased difficulty through original shapes and structures.

The X-Cube

Just messing about with a Rubik’s Cube isn’t enough these days for puzzle lovers. It’s all about Rubik’s Cube-type puzzles, only more difficult, which can be found in the very interesting X-Cube, with is very interesting shape-shifting, twisting logic puzzle. If it gets too hard, there’s always the tutorial on the-x-cube.com, but it’s better to solve it on your own. Available for $31.98.

ShengShou Megaminx Speed Cube Puzzle

Another version of the cubes puzzle genre, the ShengShou Megaminx Speed Cube Puzzle has 50-movable pieces compared to 20 in the 3×3 classic, simple cube, providing a more challenging and complicated cube puzzle. Available for $7.65.

YJ Fluctuation Angle Puzzle Cube

The YJ Fluctuation Angle Puzzle Cube hardly looks like a typical Rubik’s Cube puzzle, but believe it or not, this is basically a 3×3 cube puzzle, only with odd shapes and angles parts that can be moved around, breaking the routine of the Rubik’s Cube puzzle and maybe offering a more difficult, but mostly different challenge. Available for $6.39.

Newisland Professional Edition 3 x 3 Optimum Structured Speed Cube

What’s special about the Newisland Optimum structured Speed cube compared to the classic Rubik’s Cube? It works better and more smoothly, pure & simple. And for those who care about the environment, it’s made out of recyclable material, harmless to human and environment. Available for $12.99.

D-FantiX Qiyi Mofangge Dimension Speed Cube 3×3

The D-FantiX Speed Cube is another version of the classic Rubik’s Cube Puzzle, with a smoother feel to it and a more modern look. One issue addressed in this version is the tightness of the object which affects the turning. It comes with a screw in the each center cap and it can be tighten or loosen with a screwdriver. Available for $8.50.

Rubik’s 2 x 2 Cube

Sometimes, you don’t want a challenge when solving a cube puzzle. All you want is to do it quickly and feel accomplished. That’s what the 2×2 Rubik’s Cube is for, although it does come without any stickers, which means: NO CHEATING! Available for $7.99.

LanLan® Curvy Copter Puzzle Cube

The LanLan Curvy Copter Cube is one of the more interesting cube puzzles out there, offering a very interesting design and a different direction of working the cube puzzle out compared to the more traditional Rubik’s Cube options. Available for $10.86

7x7x7 Cube Puzzle

Simply put? Super difficult, as the Shengshou 7x7x7 speed cube offers something a challenge no other Rubik’s cube puzzle can in terms of the amount of thought one needs to put into solving this cube puzzle and obviously, the amount of time it takes to complete it. Available for $15.50.

Newisland 3×3 Plastic Stickerless Speed Cube

The interesting feature about the Newisland 3×3 plastic stickerless speed cube isn’t the puzzle itself which is the standard expectation from a Rubik’s Cube, but how it’s built: No stickers (6 already colored plastics), and maybe even better is the improved anti-pop technology to make for easier turning and smoother play. Available for $11.99.

 Shengshou Pyraminx Speedcubing Puzzle

Like the 2×2 Rubik’s cube, the Shengshou Pyraminx Speedcubing puzzle is a simple of way of making yourself feel good about solving a cube puzzle, or simply a good way of introducing yourself to the world of the Rubik’s cube games, before taking it up a notch. Available for $3.89

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