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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 6:20 am    Rubix Cube

Has anyone got one? I do and I have never finished it before! Has anyone finished it before?Do you think that they can be one?



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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 6:21 am    

I got one but my kids pretend that is a borg cube and play with it.

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 6:22 am    

lol, thats funny! Have you ever finished it before?

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 6:41 am    

I have a rubic's cube. (it was created by a guy named Rubic)

I got as far as having one side at one color and one row the same, but never got any further.

One time i got kinda pissed on the thing and ripped off all the colors and placed them on the right spot. Now my rubic's cube is the same on all sides and rotting away is some closet.

i might give it another shot someday though.

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Do you think that they can be one?


You mean if i think they can be done? Of course, there even a special technique that alows you too finish it in a couple of simple moves.


The guy who invented it, Rubic, finished it himself after 5 months or so.



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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 6:43 am    

Heaps good! My mum has got 4 sides done but apparently that if you do it the right way you get one side done and all of the other are right aswell? Im not sure if thats true but yeah!

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 8:19 am    

Yes, I got two.

Leo Wyatt wrote:
I got one but my kids pretend that is a borg cube and play with it.


He! That reminds me of a joke; "I am Rubix of Borg, and the Cube was MY idea!"



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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 8:20 am    

It took me a couple of years to do it. Not that I was doing it 24/7 but it did take a long time.

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 8:21 am    

Lol

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 8:23 am    

Did I say something funny?

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 8:25 am    

I think Leo laughed to my joke.


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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 8:26 am    

Oh, I see. It was rather funny.

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 8:30 am    

It took me a week non stop to do one... and I had a cheat book

They're all possible... just very difficult.


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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 8:38 am    

Now, what was the point of using a cheat book?

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 9:51 am    

I hate them, I never finished one. Used to have one when I was little, but I gave up pretty soon.


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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 10:47 am    

nadia wrote:
Heaps good! My mum has got 4 sides done but apparently that if you do it the right way you get one side done and all of the other are right aswell? Im not sure if thats true but yeah!



Well, there is just a special technique that allows you too finish the Cube at once, doesn't matter how much its mixed up. Of course, when you buy the cube all colors are in the right place, so you know its possible too make it complete again after you mix it up.

But its also possible that if you have 4 sides done 2 sides are still mixed up. then its very, very hard too get those 2 in order again.

I always wanted to change the places of 2 colors, that way the Cube is unsolvable , and nobody notices it!



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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 10:48 am    

Seven of Nine wrote:

They're all possible... just very difficult.


They're all possible? there are no different Rubik's cubes, or are there?



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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 11:00 am    

If you move around the stickers then they don't work properly any more. One of my friends' mums can do them.

When I went to france for the first time I got a mini one in a candy thing and I tried twisting it and it exploded into lots of little pieces.


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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 12:07 pm    

lionhead wrote:
Seven of Nine wrote:

They're all possible... just very difficult.


They're all possible? there are no different Rubik's cubes, or are there?


I meant all combinations are possible... sorry, not thinking straight today.

There migt be different ones... I dunno, never looked

I used the cheat book because I was getting frustrated with it... and it still took me a week Ah well


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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 12:46 pm    

A friend of mine (long ago) could get one into a special state (he never told me the trick), and from there he would just do a set pattern of moves over and over (even with his eyes closed). It usually took him from 10 to 45 minutes to get it into the special state and about 15 minutes to get from the special state to finished. At about 10 moves from finished it still looked totally scrambled.


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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 5:26 pm    

webtaz99 wrote:
A friend of mine (long ago) could get one into a special state (he never told me the trick), and from there he would just do a set pattern of moves over and over (even with his eyes closed). It usually took him from 10 to 45 minutes to get it into the special state and about 15 minutes to get from the special state to finished. At about 10 moves from finished it still looked totally scrambled.



Thats what i said.



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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 5:39 pm    

I knew someone who said that there was no way in the entire universe that anyone could solve the Rubix Cube - he said it was impossible.

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 5:40 pm    

I got one The first time I finished it I took off the stickers and put them on the correct way. After that, I did it the hard way. Its gotten progressivly easier.

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 5:41 pm    

Is there a rule that say that is cheating?

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PostFri Jun 10, 2005 7:50 pm    

lionhead wrote:
Seven of Nine wrote:

They're all possible... just very difficult.


They're all possible? there are no different Rubik's cubes, or are there?


There are different ones that arn't cubes! There is one and its flat and there are 3 loops and you have to make the loops join

This isn't the one I was talkiong about but it just shows you that they do have diff ones!


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PostSat Jun 11, 2005 1:36 am    

when i was little....i took a rubix cube and peeled the stickers off and made it done that way i was like 6 or 7

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