From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Thu May 30 18:15:15 1996 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Received: from curry.epilogue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curry.epilogue.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA05351 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 18:15:14 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com To: Cube-Lovers@AI.MIT.EDU From: Wei-Hwa Huang Subject: Re: Another subscriber Date: 30 May 1996 05:53:22 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 31 Message-Id: <4ojd4i$g2o@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: Nntp-Posting-Host: accord.cco.caltech.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #12 (NOV) As a first aside, I'd like to mention that a nice project was to get a standard 3x3x3 cube into a standard American spaghetti sauce jar. Makes a good conversation piece, though hard to scramble quickly... Nicholas Bodley writes: > I'm at least as much of a gadget-hound as a puzzle-solver; I have a >decent collection. I get a real bang out of dismantling group-theory >puzzles to see how they're built; almost all can be disassembled, although >(as most people probably know) the "2" (Pocket Cube) is quite hard both to >disassemble and to reassemble. I have the Hungarian Globe, which is truly >impossible to dismantle, IMO. (I haven't dared to scramble it!) This one >has printed metal surfaces attached to a plastic structure; the "tiles" >take paths like the grooves in the ball inside the "4" (R.R.). I feel compelled to mention that there's a small company in Taiwan which makes two variants of the Hungarian Globe that are harder. One variant allows for a move that turns the 9 pieces on one side; the other variant allows for the 5 pieces at every intersection to be rotated. Let me dig out the address... International Puzzles and Games Fl. 3 No. 192 Chung Ching N. Rd. Sec 2 Taipei Taiwan, Republic of China Tel: 886-2-5532575 Fax: 886-2-5536757 -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@cco.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Caught Porfiry, Raskolnikov sung his swan Sonia when he went Dounia to Siberia.