Time to dust off those old rubiks cubes

[tim west]

I'm sure many members have owned the rubiks cube but ended up putting them into storage after completely messing them up, well now you can dig them out and restore them from any messed combination back to solved by the use of a neat free little piece of software.

You can input any state of the cube click a solve button and it will show you step by step how to resolve it.

Rubiks Cube Software Solver

 

[Steve]

My Uncle used to peel off the coloured stickers and re-fix them in the right places He claimed they had been stuck on wrong to start with, thus making the puzzle unsolveable

 

[tim west]

havnt we all, some had coloured inserts you prised out with a screwdriver.

 

[noseall]

i still do the cube now when i get bored. impresses the kids.

 

[Space cat]

I've got two cubes, a three way and a four way. Long ago I worked out that some permutations are impossible. You can't rotate a single corner or flip a single edge piece. So I picked up a friend's cube while he wasn't looking and did exactly that. I prised out a corner and an edge and flipped them.

I left the cube still scrambled but now completely unsolvable. For all I know he's still trying to do it!

 

[noseall]

it is perfectly easy to complete the cube, even with a single piece disorientated. wether you muck about with one particular corner doesn't matter. this particular corner can be re-intergrated. it just means a different corner will become misaligned.

the cube will eventually be complete with one piece the wrong way round. any old cuber will know immediately that it has been tampered with.

 

[megawatt]

I've got two cubes, a three way and a four way.

What does a 4 way look like?

 

[2scoops0406]

I've got two cubes, a three way and a four way.

What does a 4 way look like?

Like a 3 way, but with an extra way.

 

[Space cat]

The four way cube is, I think, called Rubik's Revenge. It's got sixteen squares on each face and can be twisted at any of nine planes. If you can already do the three-way cube you can get the corners in easily. The fun starts when you try to do the edges.

 

[megawatt]

megawatt wrote:

What does a 4 way look like?

2scoops046 Replied:

Like a 3 way, but with an extra way.

2scoops046 ... Specialist subject ... The bleedin' obvious

 

[2scoops0406]

megawatt wrote:

What does a 4 way look like?

2scoops046 Replied:

Like a 3 way, but with an extra way.

2scoops046 ... Specialist subject ... The bleedin' obvious

Ask a stupid question ........

 

[megawatt]

And you can guarantee that some git will take advantage

 

[tim west]

The only one id be comfortable solving would be a 1x1 cube

 

[Space cat]

The only one id be comfortable solving would be a 1x1 cube

But what if you had to do it so that the white face finished up on the bottom?

 

[tim west]

The only one id be comfortable solving would be a 1x1 cube

But what if you had to do it so that the white face finished up on the bottom?

look dont complicate matters