From cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Mon Jun 9 21:30:42 1997 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Received: from oolong.camellia.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oolong.camellia.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA10040; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 21:30:41 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org From: bandecbv@mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Message-Id: <199706100041.UAA11455@life.ai.mit.edu> Comments: Authenticated sender is To: mgirard@videotron.ca Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 02:38:52 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Magic Cubes CC: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Mathieu Girard wrote: >I am in a quest to buy both 4x4x4 Rubik's Revenge and also 5x5x5 >cube.. but i just can't find any! Regrettably the 4x4x4 cubes seem to be sold out everywhere in the world. With the 5x5x5 Magic Cubes (in Japan once sold under the name Professor's Cube), the situation is much better: They are still available from me (and as far as I know nowhere else now). Since they will probably never be produced again (the production cost is too high and the general interest too low), they will also be sold out soon. I shall inform the cube-lovers when this is the case. My price of the 5x5x5 cube is 40 DM or 24 USD plus postage. I send my free mail order catalog (containing also many other twisting puzzles like the Magic Dodecahedron , the Skewb, the Pyraminx, Mickey's Chellenge and several books and details how to order) to every cube-lover requesting it and providing a postal address. A few days ago, Joe McGarity complained bitterly about his 5x5x5 cube which fell apart. Fortunately, I did not encounter this problem before, and Joe is not in my files so he has probably not bought his cube from me. On the other hand you will destroy every twisting puzzle by twisting it with force without sufficient aligning the layers before every single move. Since the 5x5x5 cube contains 98 visible little cubies compared to the 26 of the 3x3x3 (and 92 compared to 20 if we only count the freely floating ones), one should accept that it requires a little bit more care. Joe McGarity also mentioned that some orange stickers sometimes do not behave according to there name. I have to admit that this sometimes also happens with my 5x5x5 cubes. Furtunately it happens only to the orange stickers and it can be repaired easily by warm pressure or - better - some glue. Christoph Christoph Bandelow mailto:Christoph.Bandelow@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de