Florian Kastenmeier of Germany started his puzzle cube collection sixteen years ago.
A German man with a Rubik’s Cube obsession has set a Guinness World Record with his collection of rotating puzzles. Florian Kastenmeier, 40, hails from Bavaria, Germany and has an impressive collection of revolving puzzles. Over the years, Mr. Kastenmeier has amassed the world’s largest collection of rotating puzzles, with a total of 1,519 puzzles of all forms and sizes.
According to GWR, his creations range from traditional Rubik’s cubes to colorful cubes shaped like balls, houses and even fruits. He has dedicated an entire room to his puzzles at his residence in Mindelheim, but believes the space is becoming too small for his ever-growing collection.
However, the lack of space does not deter Mr. Kastenmeier, and he continues with his wife and children in search of the rarest and most interesting artifacts.
His family and friends are excited about his passion, and they share with them the joy of being named in the Guinness World Records 2023 book, GWR Said further.
“It’s unbelievable. A great feeling,” said Mr. Kastenmeier. GWR,
“Knowing that you have achieved something that no one has done before you is incredible,” he said.
A video posted by the official YouTube handle of Guinness World Records on Friday shows Mr. Castenmeier talking about his unique collection of puzzles.
“Florian Kastenmaier of Germany started his puzzle cube collection sixteen years ago, but has now become a world record collection,” the caption reads.
Within just one day, the video has garnered over 30,000 views and is still counting.
Mr. Kastenmeier’s obsession with spinning puzzles began in the same way as many other fantastic stories by chance. He had several Rubik’s cubes as a youth, but he could not solve them and quickly lost interest in riddles, GWR Told.
But it leads to a major change 16 years ago when he found an old Rubik’s cube in the attic while walking. It was probably one of those cubes he ignored as a youth and was abandoned over the years. However, the puzzle now provided an entirely different constraint.