Larry D. Nichols Larry D. Nichols Larry D. Nichols, born 1939 in the United States, is a puzzle designer. He grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and studied chemistry at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, before moving to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Graduate School. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including 'The Nichols Cube Puzzle' (1974), patent US365520. He has lived with his wife Karen in Arlington, Massachusetts since 1959. In 1957, 17 years before Dr. Rubik’s invention popularly known as the “Rubik's Cube”, Dr. Nichols conceived of a twist cube puzzle with six colored faces. It was a 2×2×2
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh Shannon's original script had to be cut due to budget constraints, including a lengthy series of puzzles in the mental hospital and some scenes on the alien world. For a while, Sierra was planning "Phantasmagoria 3", and had asked Roberta Williams to return as its lead designer. However, after the commercial disappointment of "A Puzzle of Flesh", along with the decline of the point-and-click adventure with interactive movie genres, the project never materialized. "A Puzzle of Flesh" was developed on a budget of $4.5 million. "A Puzzle of Flesh"'s live action sequences were written by Lorelei Shannon, directed by Andy