DaYan 7x7 Skewb

Worst cube purchase

Cube has a misleading name. Cube is very loose and the pops on the cube are even worse.

Locks and Pops

This puzzle locks up constantly and is incredibly prone to popping. Even with careful alignment, you'll find yourself picking pieces up off the floor. If I had been able to try the puzzle out, I would not have bought it.

Completely unusable.

Avoid this puzzle at all costs, unless all you want is to put it on a shelf. I wasn't expecting a speed cube. I wasn't even expecting something that would move all that well. But I was expecting something I could at least scramble and solve, even if it maybe had a lot of catching in the process. What I got was something that simple can't be used. Period. Over the course of 5 minutes, I was able to rotate each of the layers in one direction 120 degrees each, and then return them. That's 12 turns, 4 of which are trivial twists of the corners, over the course of 5 minutes. Even going that slowly and carefully, I had pieces pop out multiple times. The fact is that this isn't a puzzle at all - it's just a bunch of plastic pieces that interlock into a cube. Aside from the turning (or lack thereof), this doesn't even look good on a shelf. The product image on this page uses very flat lighting, which limits how visible it is, but with real life lighting, the fact that every piece is sitting at a slightly different elevation/angle makes it look awful, and there's no "straightening it" that you can do to fix it, as the central 9 squares on each face will always be raised relative to the others. I have well over 200 puzzles in my collection. I've gotten some pretty bad ones in the past that I know better than to try to scramble. Still, I have never had one bad enough that I ended up returning it. Until now.