The Nice Cube Family: Every Variant, Ranked by Hunt Difficulty
July 11, 2026 · 9 min read
The Nice Cube is the most-hunted shape in the NeeDoh lineup — a 2.25-inch square that squishes flat and slowly rights itself into a perfect cube. Four variants matter, and their difficulty tiers are very different.
Glitter and Glow ($5.99, Target) is the easy entry: glitter gel, charges under light, restocks reliably. If you just want a cube, this is the one you can walk into a store and buy most weeks.
Nice Cube Swirl ($10.99, Target and B&N) runs marbled, jewel-toned colors. It sells through in waves but comes back; pay retail, never the $20+ marketplace flip.
Candy Swirl ($6.99–$7.99) is the current chase. Every cube's marble is unique, and the rollout started at Hallmark Gold Crown stores of all places — several with 2-per-person limits. A Target listing just appeared, which historically means wide shelf drops within weeks.
The rule of the cube market: variants that hit mass retail always cool off. The window where a cube is genuinely rare is the gap between specialty-store debut and big-box rollout — that's when limits appear and resale spikes. Buy in that window only if you're happy at sticker price.