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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 03:57 PM
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Do you have an unsolved Rubik's cube?
I found this site and it is really good for getting them back into shape. It is especially good because in order to analyze the cube in a group theoretical sense it helps to have it solved first. So anyways here is a solution guide. http://www.wrongway.org/cube/solve.html

It will also tell you if someone has re-arranged the stickers in a fashion that renders it unsolvable.

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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 03:58 PM
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1. Interesting, I'll have to check that out....
I used to just take mine apart and put them back together the right way. Ya know, thinking outside the box ;)
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 04:01 PM
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2. my daughter solved it when she was about 6 or 7 years old
while watching TV and not really focusing on it. When I asked her how she did it (I was dumbfounded) she replied "you just start twisting it and the pattern unfolds."

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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 04:03 PM
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3. Yeah, I knew a kid at the age of 9 who would do it in a couple minutes
Some just get it most don't
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TheWizardOfMudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 04:12 PM
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4. When the cube first came out
My girlfriend got it for me along with the book. Using the book, I memorized the steps how to solve any cube, any time.

My friends were amazed!!!!!!!!! ;)

But it was pure rote.
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:17 PM
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5. aw sh*t.....you're supposed to SOLVE them?
Just kidding...

:evilgrin:


and so I threw my evil one away....it taunted me...all those primary colors just sitting next to each other clashing...the nerve of it...never a moments peace...

EVIL EVIL evilllllllllllllllllllll

:crazy:

DR
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