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Polycubes are made from cubes that are glued face-to-face without overlap. In polycube puzzles the player is usually presented with a set of such polycubes and he has the task to assemble them to a certain shape.
Sometimes (especially when polycube puzzles are played on the computer) the cubes will be represented by other tokens.
Examples of polycube puzzles
Comacube
Cubewalk
Fourcube
Karl's Cubes
Soma cube
Sticks Sequence
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'Solitaire-type puzzles' typically consist of
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Classes of mechanical puzzles
disentanglement puzzles : Here some or all of the pieces have to be separated from the other pieces.
lock puzzles
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Rubik's Cube
Easy Cubes
Nintendo Ten Billion Barrel
trick-knife puzzles
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