2D Twisty Puzzles
2D Twisty puzzles consist of several movable parts which lie in a flat frame .
There are only few moves, where only one piece is slided.
Usually several pieces are slided or rotated with one movement.
The aim is to achieve a certain order.
Columns and row shifting puzzles
Columns and row shifting puzzles have the pieces ordered in a lattice shape inside a frame.
At the border of the frame are some sliders.
The use of a slider shifts all pieces in the row(s) or column(s) before the slider.
Thereby their position changes in relation to the amount the slider is pushed.
a.) rectangular
LineArt
designed by Jean Claude Constantin
made by Jean Claude Constantin
TriTrick
Difficulty: difficult
Playing Time: > 180 minutes
made by Hidden One Design Ltd.
Port To Port
Difficulty: medium
Playing Time: < 45 minutes
designed by Ferdinand Lammertink
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
Triple Cross
Difficulty: medium
designed by Ferdinand Lammertink
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
Flip-side
designed by Ferdinand Lammertink
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
Italia Uriblock
designed by Dario Uri
Uriblock
designed by Dario Uri
Swissmad Puzzle
designed by Olivier Pahud
Tsukuda's Square / it / 4x4
designed by Toshihisa Suga
made by Gabriel
Tsukuda's Square / it / 4x4
designed by Toshihisa Suga
made by Gabriel
Rubik's Fifteen
designed by Erno Rubik
b.) triangular
Elemental : Neon
designed by David Litwin
made by David Litwin
c.) Gravity puzzles
Svetnashki
Difficulty: medium
Playing Time: < 60 minutes
The composition of this puzzle is pretty easy:
The background consists of a 2 x 2 grid,
whereby neighbour grid cells have different polarisation directions.
Analogously each of the 15 tiles have a polarisation filter.
If a tile moves from one grid cell to the next,
then the colour changes from transparent to opaque or vice versa.
Another feature of the puzzle is
that the movements of the tiles are restricted
which is due to a transparent acryl disc on the front.
Therefore only the following movements are possible:
The tiles which are situated along the edges
can be slided along the edges.
As the tiles on the inner rows and columns cannot be touched,
they can only be shifted about one position by gravity.
Shifts have the feature that no tile may be hold on
and thus all tiles in one column get shifted downwards.
That is why no gap can be created in the center.
The task is to order the tiles in such a way
that either all tiles look opaque or transparent.
It is of course also possible to create any other pattern.
designed by Oleg Kasyanov
made by Mif Predmet
The Mirage Puzzle
designed by Grabarchuk
Wooden Mirage - 11
designed by Grabarchuk
Shifting and rotational puzzles
Double Cross
a slight variation of Dario Uris puzzle
designed by Hans van der Zon
made by LaserExact!
Colors Cross
designed by Hans van der Zon
made by LaserExact!
Key puzzles
A key puzzle has usually one, seldom several big sliders in one frame.
Additionally, there are several small sliders or balls in that frame.
The sliders or balls can be moved to certain positions.
The aim is to remove the big slider out of the frame.
The Key Puzzle
Difficulty: medium
designed by Goh Pit Khiam
Tern Key
designed by Goh Pit Khiam
made by Eric Fuller
la cerradura doble
designed by Robrecht Louage
made by Robrecht Louage
Kugellager
designed by Jean Claude Constantin
made by Jean Claude Constantin
Die Welle
made by Jean Claude Constantin
Six Bottles
designed by Jean Claude Constantin
made by Jean Claude Constantin
Binary Key II
designed by Goh Pit Khiam
made by Eric Fuller
Elephant Spinout
Difficulty: easy
Playing Time: < 20 minutes
designed by William Keister
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
SPIN OUT
Difficulty: easy
Playing Time: < 20 minutes
same as Elephant Spinout
designed by William Keister
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
LA DANSE DES FLÈCHES
Difficulty: easy
designed by Markus Götz
made by Les Éditions FABBRI
SWITCHBACK
comes with 52 problems
designed by Ira Friedman
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
Colour Match
made by Siebenstein Spiele
Harmonica
made by CLEVER TOYS, s.r.o.
ROW BY ROW
designed by Mizunuma Masanori
made by TOMY
Rack'em up
designed by Mizunuma Masanori / Watanabe Hiroyuki
made by TOMY
MATCH UP
designed by Mizunuma Masanori / Watanabe Hiroyuki
Palette Series
The characterstic of Palette Series is a cross shaped slider.
The pieces are inside this cross shaped slider as well as in a rectangular frame.
The slider can be moved to the left and right as well as up and down.
It depends on the position of the pieces, which of them are moved together with the slider.
PALETTE EYE
designed by Douglas A. Engel
PALETTE 7
designed by Douglas A. Engel
KartenFrom
designed by Douglas A. Engel
IPP
designed by Douglas A. Engel
PALETTE 21
designed by Douglas A. Engel
PALETTE CORRAL
designed by Douglas A. Engel
PALETTE CUT 2
designed by Douglas A. Engel
PALETTE CUT 1
designed by Douglas A. Engel
PALETTE MIX 4
designed by Douglas A. Engel
SF PP STAR 29
IPP 29 Exchange / San Francisco
designed by Douglas A. Engel
Single ring puzzles
All pieces lie in a single closed ring. The pieces can be moved along the ring.
There is also another operation possible where only few of the pieces are permutated.
TopSpin
designed by Ferdinand Lammertink
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
TopSpin
designed by Ferdinand Lammertink
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
Educational Logic Game
designed by Ferdinand Lammertink
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
Drum
made by CLLEVER TOYS, s.r.o.
PyraCircle
designed by Jean Claude Constantin
made by Jean Claude Constantin
Rotarius
made by Siebenstein Spiele
Three ring puzzles
Rotascope
designed by Raoul Raba
made by Pentangle
Magic Dish
same as TRIO
TRIO
same as Magic Dish
Mad Triad Handy
Mad Triad Challange
designed by Heng-Chun Ku
Slide Rule Duels
Slide Rule Duel Puzzles consist of two parts.
In the upper part the pieces form two to three circle segments.
In the lower part the pieces form only one circle segment.
The lower part can be moved to the left or to the right.
If the lower circle segment lies directly below an upper circle segment,
then the two circle segments compose a circle.
The pieces, which build the circle, can thereby be rotated.
PENTAPLENTY
designed by Douglas A. Engel
HEPTALIVE
designed by Douglas A. Engel
BINARY BISECT 5
designed by Douglas A. Engel
ROTOCROSS
designed by Douglas A. Engel
ROCKETEER
IPP 29 Exchange / San Francisco
designed by Douglas A. Engel
Two ring puzzles
a.) marbles
a.) without intersection points
One Circle - Two Circles
Puzzle Design Competition 2012
IPP 32 Exchange / Washington, D.C.
Difficulty: medium
Playing Time: 30 - 45 minutes
The goal is to move the marbles
to the positions indicated on the board.
designed by Diniar Namdarian
b.) two intersection points
Hungarian Rings
Difficulty: difficult
designed by E.Pap
made by Politoys
Rubik's Rings
Difficulty: difficult
Hungarian Rings
Difficulty: difficult
designed by E.Pap
William Churchill Puzzle
Difficulty: medium
designed by William Churchill 1893 (US patent 507215)
no copyrights
Moeraki Game No.4
9 red + 9 yellow + 9 green + 21 transparent beads
Difficulty: easy
Playing Time: < 10 minutes
The puzzle consists of three closed circular orbits.
Two circular orbits intersect respectively on two places
so that there are in total 6 crossing points.
All three orbits have the same length and contain 18 beads.
Due to the 4 crossing points located on each orbit,
each orbit is divided into four sections with different lengths,
namely with 9, 2, 1 and 2 beads.
The beads are present in three different colours
(red, green and yellow).
There are 9 beads per colour
and additionally 21 transparent beads.
All beads of one orbit can be shifted along it.
The goal is to order the beads on each orbit
according to colour.
designed by Kasimir Landowski / Ivan Moscovich
made by Casland Games
OLYMPIC
Difficulty: easy
designed by E.Pap
c.) four intersection points
Moeraki Game No.3
8 green + 8 red + 8 yellow + 8 blue + 16 transparent beads
Difficulty: medium
Playing Time: > 120 minutes
The puzzle design captivates through its simplicity.
Thus, the puzzle consists of two closed elliptical rings
which intersect on four places.
Both orbits have the same shape and each contains 26 beads.
One orbit lies orthogonal to the other one
so that the outer shape resembles a X.
The four crossing points divide each orbit into four sections
with different lengths, i.e. with 8, 3, 8 and 3 beads.
The beads are present in 4 different colours
(red, blue, green and yellow).
There are 8 beads per colour as well as 16 transparent beads.
All beads of one orbit can be shifted along it.
Each of the 4 (8-bead long) sections on both orbits
is given a different colour.
The aim is to order the beads according to their colour
on the orbits as indicated on the board.
designed by Kasimir Landowski / Ivan Moscovich
made by Casland Games
Swesdotschka
Difficulty: difficult
The puzzle consists of two closed rings
which intersect on four places.
The four crossing points divide each orbit into four sections
with different lengths.
All beads of one orbit can be shifted along it.
b.) various designers
TurnStile
Playing Time: > 2 hours
designed by Douglas A. Engel
Puzzler Challanger
designed by Douglas A. Engel
designed by Douglas A. Engel
Rashkey 2
designed by Oleg Raschkov
Rashkey 1
designed by Oleg Raschkov
Arusloky / Cohan Circle
designed by Hooshang Cohan
published on 8 April 1986 Patent No US 4580783
made by Arusloky.com
DUO
designed by Jean Claude Constantin
made by Jean Claude Constantin
Lotica / Turn'Push
designed by Serguei and Alexandre Bagdassarian
Rotos
designed by Manfred Fritsche
Geranium
made by VeryPuzzle
Pocket Geranium
made by VeryPuzzle
c.) GEARS PUZZLE
DANCING GEARS PUZZLE (Swing Six)
designed by Douglas A. Engel
DANCING GEARS PUZZLE (WALTZ)
designed by Douglas A. Engel
GIZMO GEARS PUZZLE
designed by Douglas A. Engel
BATTLE GEARS PUZZLE (SPY)
designed by Douglas A. Engel
DANCING GEARS PUZZLE
designed by Douglas A. Engel
FARMLAND GEARS PUZZLE
HAY RIDE
designed by Douglas A. Engel
Festivalnij Zwetok
Butterfly
made by CLLEVER TOYS, s.r.o.
Rotary Circle
Difficulty: easy
Playing Time: < 15 minutes
WHIRLIGIG PLATE
Difficulty: easy
Playing Time: < 15 minutes
Flower
Difficulty: easy
Playing Time: < 15 minutes
made by CLEVER TOYS, s.r.o.
Trio, Version 2
Difficulty: easy
Playing Time: < 15 minutes
Trio, Version 2 and Flower are the same puzzle,
except that Flower has in every ring 7 marbles
and Trio has only 5 marbles in every Ring.
made by CLEVER TOYS, s.r.o.
Russian Gripple
Difficulty: easy
designed by Murray J. Gould
Gripple
Difficulty: easy
designed by Murray J. Gould
Cmetrick
designed by Dror Rom
made by elogiq
Cmetrick mini
designed by Dror Rom
made by elogiq
Gerdig Ufo
Gerhard Huncaga
THE ORBIK
designed by Shih-Hung Juang
TRILLION
designed by Gunpei Yokoi
SPECTAR
made by PROIZVODNJA IGARA I IGRACAKA
Great Gears
designed by Koichi Minami and Tohru Nishimiya
designed by Oskar van Deventer
Various puzzles
Magellan
BRAIN-CHEK!
made by brain-check.com
Writer's Block
designed by Oskar van Deventer
Only 8
designed by Jean Claude Constantin
made by Jean Claude Constantin
Inteligence Compass
Difficulty: medium
Playing Time: < 2 hours
designed by Christopher Wiggs and Christopher Taylor
Solution Hint:
The first step is that the needle from the five inner clocks
show in the same direction. Can you do it also
with the back side?
Rubik's Clock
Difficulty: medium
Playing Time: < 2 hours
designed by Christopher Wiggs and Christopher Taylor
Solution Hint:
The first step is that the needle from the five inner clocks
show in the same direction. Can you do it also
with the back side?
BACK-SPIN
designed by Ferdinand Lammertink
made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)
NEW SEVEN PUZZLE / Alligator
made by KAWADA CO.,LTD.
NEW SEVEN PUZZLE / Apple
made by KAWADA CO.,LTD.
Siebenstein - Puzzel
made by Siebenstein Spiele
Modern Times
IPP 31 Exchange / Berlin
designed by Jean Claude Constantin
made by Jean Claude Constantin
Literature
Douglas A. Engel CIRCLE PUZZLER'S MANUAL
Shops
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