List of products by manufacturer FangShi

FangShi is a brand of the Chinese manufacturer Funs Puzzle. Among speedcubers, it is best known for its older 3x3 cubes from the ShuangRen, GuangYing, XingYu and JieYun series. Collectors, on the other hand, know it for the LimCube series: unusual twisty puzzles with non-standard shapes and mechanisms. At Strefa Kostek, most of the FangShi range consists of these twisty puzzles rather than classic speedcubes.

FangShi speedcubes

The first ShuangRen came out in 2013. It was a 57 mm 3x3, known for its very forgiving corner cutting and light, smooth turning. It was later replaced by the ShuangRen V2, which brought a few minor design improvements. The JieYun is built similarly to the GuangYing but uses different pieces. It has shallow recesses for the stickers on the raised tiles, and users described it as fast and fairly clicky. The brand's first 2x2, the ShiShuang, draws on solutions from the ShuangRen series. These models are quite old now and can't compete with today's magnetic cubes. Today they mostly appeal to people who want to explore the history of speedcubing or who collect cubes.

LimCube and collector's puzzles

Today, the LimCube series is what draws most customers to FangShi. In our shop you will find, among others:

• Morpho (Aureola, Marinita, Deidamia, Helena, Helenor Octavia): butterfly-shaped puzzles. Some of them use a Skewb mechanism with an additional edge rotation, so they can change shape and go into jumbling and bandaging states.


• Dreidel 3x3x3 and its Simplified version: 3x3 shape mods in which the corners also rotate. They are much harder to solve than a regular cube.


• 2x2x2 Transform series (Pyraminx, Twin Pyraminx, Octahedron, Rhombohedron) and puzzles based on the 2x2 mechanism, such as the Discrete pyramid and the Pineapple cube.


• Trefoil Tetrahedron in several colour schemes, Fission Skewb, Crucis, Void Star Wheel Cube and Alien Cube.


• Ghost Cube 2x2, a mini 6x6 (54.6 mm) and a 3D-printed 4x4x4 Mirror.

Who FangShi products are for

LimCube puzzles are designed mainly for people who have already mastered the 3x3 and other basic puzzles and are looking for a new challenge. Many of them have no simple, ready-made tutorial, and the versions with a Skewb mechanism require knowledge of several puzzle types. For a child's first cube, a classic 3x3 is a better choice. A FangShi puzzle, however, makes a great gift for someone who already has a sizeable cube collection at home.