From bagleyd@source.asset.com Thu Apr 14 13:21:45 1994 Return-Path: Received: from source.asset.com by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA23729; Thu, 14 Apr 94 13:21:45 EDT Received: by source.asset.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA64031; Thu, 14 Apr 1994 12:55:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 12:55:50 -0400 From: bagleyd@source.asset.com (David A. Bagley) Message-Id: <9404141655.AA64031@source.asset.com> To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Mailing List Hi, I was wondering if you can add me to your mailing list. I put some motif puzzles at ftp.x.org in /contrib/motif_puzzles. They are: rubik: a (nxnxn) rubik's cube pyramid: a (nxnxn) pyraminx with period 2 and period 3 cuts oct: an (nxnxn) octahedron with period 3 and period 4 cuts skewb: a diagonal cut rubik's cube cubes, triangles, & hexagons: sliding block puzzles There are no self-solvers provided with these. A record keeps track of how many move it takes you to solve them. A record of 32767 means I never did it. (I do not follow any standard notation for a move (for example, on the rubik's cube a move is any 1/4 turn)). Unfortuately the motif puzzles need motif to compile. Is there a good public domain substitute for Motif? Also you may want to check out the tetris games which only use X. altetris: polyomino version of tetris alweltris: polyomino version of welltris altertris: polyiamond version of tetris (they bounce off the walls) alhextris: polyhexes version of tetris (again, they bounce off the walls) These are found in ftp.x.org in /contrib I recently heard that 10x10 tangle has no solution. I was trying to solve that one too. What a waste! (90 days of compute time, wow thats one efficient program, fast machine , or both!) Have fun David