Twisty puzzles, designed differently.
Manqube is the independent twisty puzzle design practice of Manish Rathod. The work is built around unusual shape modification, geometry and construction — solving what a familiar puzzle looks like, more than reinventing how it turns.
The Work
A small, curated selection of designs — not the full archive.
Nothing shows here until you check “Feature on Homepage” on at least one puzzle entry — see the Basic Information box when editing a puzzle.
The Designer
I’m Manish Rathod. Manqube is the name I design under — a one-person practice, not a studio with a team behind it. I work mainly in shape modification: taking a familiar twisty puzzle mechanism and rebuilding the form around it into something that hasn’t existed before.
The Manqube Design Archive
The archive documents the wider body of work — every design, whether or not it’s currently available to buy. A puzzle stays in the archive after it’s sold out or discontinued; this is a record, not just a shop window.
The Making
An unusual shape mod rarely works on the first try. Most designs go through repeated rounds of CAD, printing, sanding and test-fitting before the geometry and the turning actually agree with each other. 3D printing isn’t a shortcut here — it’s the tool that makes this kind of experimentation possible at all.
Recognition
Numbers here update automatically as new designs are published — nothing on this list is typed in by hand.
Designs have also gone to collectors and solvers outside India, including in Japan, the US and the UK.
Customer Voices
[ Exact review text to go here — James Gille, Google review ]
James Gille — Google review, 12 Nov 2022
[ Exact review text to go here — David Burns, Google review ]
David Burns — Google review, 13 Nov 2023
[ Exact review text to go here — a book review, e.g. Avinash on Amazon, demonstrating the solver-to-creator journey ]
Amazon review — One Turn at a Time