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From: "Richard M Morton" <richard_morton@icom-solutions.com>
To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu
Subject:  Cube Colours

  Mark Longridge wrote:

  > First of all, the STANDARD colour arrangement used by Ideal Toy is as
  > follows:
  >
  > UP      = White
  > DOWN    = Blue
  > FRONT   = Yellow
  > BACK    = Green
  > LEFT    = Red
  > RIGHT   = Orange


  Is the orientation of the above fixed in some way or is it arbitrary ?


  My second cube (can't remember what happened to the first one) is a later
  edition (not sure if it is Ideal) with the same arrangement to above
  except, the orientation is different (UP is either RED or ORANGE) The
  reason I say this is that the LEFT,RIGHT,DOWN and FRONT faces have
  symbols printed in the centre as follows :


  YELLOW - signature of Erno Rubik
  WHITE - Rubik's CUBE tm
  GREEN - C*4**4 (actually uses superscript 4 for the power)
  BLUE - silhouette (of Erno Rubik)


  The symbols are designed to make the cube harder to solve - the challenge
  is to solve the cube with the centre cubes all in the correct
  orientation. I recall that there are sequences of moves that rotate pairs
  of centre cubes.


  This cube is definitely a lot stiffer than my original cube but the
  novelty of speed cubing has worn off anyway.


  Richard Morton
  (If my employers views are not necessarily those of my own, why am I
  still working here ?)
  Icom Solutions
  http://www.icom-solutions.com/offprods/default.htm