From munafo@vgi.com Fri Jul 28 17:15:16 1995 Return-Path: Received: from vgi.com (hoss.vgi.com) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA04926; Fri, 28 Jul 95 17:15:16 EDT Received: from frank.vgi.com ([1.0.2.139]) by vgi.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12063; Fri, 28 Jul 95 17:13:58 EDT Received: by frank.vgi.com (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1) id AA26397; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 17:14:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 17:14:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Munafo X-Sender: munafo@frank To: CUBE-LOVERS List Subject: Re: IQubes In-Reply-To: <648@puzzles.demon.co.uk> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sounds like a 3-d analogue of the "15-puzzle". I have one which is called "MagicJack", and is imported from Germany. I bought mine at Games People Play on Mass Ave. in Cambridge MA, USA (+1.617.492.0711). The cubies have varying numbers of sides colored silver, red, and green. There are three different ways to "solve" it. The silver way is easiest; the green way requires you to match up patterns on each facelet to make a continuous loop, conceptually sinilar to Rubik's Tangle. The red solution also requires a continuous loop, and there are symbols that must be matched up too, making it harder to find a pattern that is valid. I haven't scrambled mine yet, because I haven't had time to write down the initial pattern. On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Yerry Felix wrote: > > On another note, a while back Games & Puzzles Magazine reviewed a cube > called IQube. It comprised a cage containing 26 cubelets, there are two > variants, one with 3 * 2 colours on the individual cubelets and another > one with 2 * 3 colours. A few days later a friend of mine brought in an > ancient cube (about 10 years old) which was made to the same principle, > but with only one colour on one of the faces of the cubelets inside and the other > 5 sides are black. Would anyone know who manufactured these? > > -- Yerry Felix > Games & Puzzles Magazine - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Davis' principle 46: Avoid design in requirements. - - - - Robert P Munafo - - - munafo@vgi.com - - - +1.617.276.8960 - - -