****ing rubiks cubes

Yeah. We got a fold-out thing with it. I could get 4 sides but not the lot. The handbook that came with it explained what we were doing wrong.
 
SiriusB said:
Peel the coloured plastic bits off, and glue them back on so each side is one colour.

Yes, you may have bypassed what the creator intended but the end result is a solved rubik's cube. You also get top marks for thinking outside the box.
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You only really need to peel one off. Undo the screw and then put it all back together as it began life - solved.
 
Get frustrated, smash it off the ground until it breaks into a million pieces and then put it back together.............simple
 
Gilly said:
You only really need to peel one off. Undo the screw and then put it all back together as it began life - solved.
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Damn someone ninja-quoted me!

I posted as the YouTube video started, and realised dismantling it would be more fun :p
 
Used to be able to do it in 50 seconds, now it's more like 1:30 minutes.

To solve it first time, think of how you can "scramble" certain blocks without messing up what you've already done. The process usually involves moving 2 blocks of the cube away from an incompleted plane, and then moving those two blocks back from another orientation, resulting all the other incompleted blocks to be "scrambled" around. Observe the pattern and you can gradually move specific blocks to where you want them to go.

When you get more advanced for speed, you start thinking about removing redundant moves.

The 4x4x4 Rubik's Revenge was much more frustrating!
 
When they first came out I was the factory expert and I very nearly lost my job because of them.
At one time you could have taken a photograph down an assembly line and you'd see 50 people playing with Cubes.
My record speed was 2 min 10 secs so quite poor really.
 
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