Ultimate Magic Cube

Welcome to the home page of Ultimate Magic Cube (UMC), the computer program that lets you create your own Rubik's cube like puzzles. This program is for the true Rubik enthusiast who can't get enough of the twisty puzzles.

You can download the full version here. With it you can make countless more puzzles of your own. Below is a tour of what UMC has to offer.

Many thanks to Leo Izen for creating the installer.

System requirements: Windows XP or Vista (I haven't tried UMC on older operating systems, but it might work), NVidia 5000 series videocard (or ATI equivalent) or better, Directx 9 or better.

you need Winrar to unzip Ultimate Magic Cube 2

Important: You also need to install Dot Net Framework 4 and XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0

Tour of Ultimate Magic Cube

The program works by first having a platonic solid as a shape. There are 5 platonic solids: Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Dodecahedron and Icosahedron:

Then cuttingplanes are added to the shape. There are 3 types of cuttingplanes: Cuttingplanes which are parallel to the faces of the shape, 'parallel' to the points of the shape or parallel to the edges of the shape. Here are three pictures to make it clearer:

Cuttingplanes parallel to the faces Cuttingplanes 'parallel' to the points Cuttingplanes parallel to the edges

These 3 types of cuttingplanes can also be mixed together on one shape:

Face and point cuttingplanes mixed together Face and edge cuttingplanes mixed together

This gives almost limitless possibilities, from traditional puzzles:

to mixed cubes, some of which are all new:

The second feature of UMC is to connect any cubies you like to make certain rotations impossible (a so called bandaged puzzle). This can greatly increase the difficulty of a puzzle.

The third feature of UMC is to allow the cubies to have an orientation by giving the outside coloured stickers faded colours. Thus a cuby not only has to be on the right spot, but also has to have the right orientation: