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Rubik’s Cube for Dummies: How to Solve Rubik’s Cube in 20 Moves

by Noemi Twigg
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Rubik’s Cube for Dummies: How to Solve Rubik’s Cube in 20 Moves

Who among you have problems solving Rubik’s Cube? Remember my post last year about some guys who determined God’s Number – 20? Well, saying that the minimum number of moves to solve the puzzle is 20 is one thing. Actually solving the puzzle in 20 moves is another thing. If you cannot figure out those 20 moves on your own, do not fret. Someone else has done the hard task for you and created an infographic that will show you – step by step – how to solve Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves. No more, no less. Just to make things more fun, they threw in a handful of other Read more »

Get Your LEGO Bricks, USB and Your Laptop Now. Why? To Solve That 5×5 Rubik's Cube!

by Franky Branckaute
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Get Your LEGO Bricks, USB and Your Laptop Now. Why? To Solve That 5×5 Rubik's Cube!

The life of a geek sometimes is really simple, isn’t it? Take some popular geek meta: laptops, USB, LEGO and Rubik’s. Now throw them all together and make one thing out of this. Rubik’s you said? Which one? 2×2? 3×3? I guess most of you still struggle with that 3×3, right? Let’s speak business then today: what about a 4×4 Cube or a 5×5 even? Sweating? Woser! Trust me, they really aren’t that hard to solve. All you need are some LEGO skills. And some programming skills. Now I have to warn you: LEGO Technics. Of course that excludes all Mac Nerds who preferred to go with the Fisher-Price of Read more »

CubeStormer: robot solves Rubik's Cube in record time

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Though plenty of new puzzles have come from the house of Rubik since the Cube, there’s no denying it still holds a special place in the heart of geeks and enthusiasts. For that reason, and for the joy of combining the Rubik’s Cube with robotics, we present CubeStormer from RoboticSolutions. The claim is that this Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot can solve any 33 in under twelve seconds. The video shows this: I’m happy to take their word on the machine being handed random cubes. Just brilliant. Kinda makes your human attempts at solving the cube rather futile, eh? Never mind. You can always dress up as a Rubik’s Cube Read more »

Hankering For A Taste Of Rubik’s Cube

by Noemi Twigg
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Hankering For A Taste Of Rubik’s Cube

I am talking about literally tasting! No, I have not gone bonkers – why would anyone get a hankering for Rubik’s cube as a meal or a snack? Then again, you probably have not seen these wonderful concoctions yet. Now does that look familiar? How about this other one? These are cakes that were made by some really creative AND geeky minds. Now who’s to say that creative and geeky do not go together? The first cake was baked by Sarenea for someone’s piano recital. Her post says that the special guy is called Corvat (now that’s a nice name!) and I bet he got a thrill out of his Read more »

Is Rubik's 360 the best thing since the Cube?

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Is Rubik's 360 the best thing since the Cube?

A couple of days ago the latest puzzle from Rubik arrived on the scene. Professor Erno Rubik explains. “The Rubik’s 360 is one of the most innovative and exciting puzzles we’ve developed since the Cube – adopting elements of my original design, challenging the solver to use concentration, skill and dexterity. But it’s a more kinetic challenge, more physical, because gravity is involved.” The object of the puzzle is to move six colored balls into their appropriate holes by spinning the puzzle around. It’s made up of a 10cm diameter clear plastic sphere with six coloured domes positioned at intervals around the edge. At top and bottom are two black Read more »