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 Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (also known as Phantasmagoria 2) is an interactive movie point-and-click adventure game released in 1996 by Sierra On-Line. Though technically a sequel to Roberta Williams' 1995 game "Phantasmagoria", "Puzzle of Flesh" shares no connections with its predecessor in plot nor characters, as Sierra initially intended the "Phantasmagoria" title to be a horror anthology, with each installment of a different story and style. While not a critical or commercial success, "A Puzzle of Flesh", like its predecessor "Phantasmagoria", is remembered for its controversial violent and sexual content, which led the game