From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Mar 26 15:58:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id PAA01386; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:58:04 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Wed Mar 25 19:10:32 1998 Message-Id: <01BD5821.7C9449E0@jburkhardt.ne.mediaone.net> From: John Burkhardt To: Subject: new to list Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 19:09:07 -0500 Hi, I just found and joined this list. So I am looking for any and all oddball cube variations I can find. Does anyone have anything to sell or trade. I can trade for a "Magic Dodecahedron" which is the start shaped Hungarian version of the Megaminx and I might be willing to part with a 5x5x5 cube for anything really interesting. I'm looking for an original Tomy Megaminx. Also the octahedron puzzle which is like two Pyraminx's glued together (there might be an official name). I am also searching for a 4x4x4 but I know they are really hard to find these days (mostly because they tend to break). The Dodecahedron puzzle is really amazing. It was actually harder than the 5x5x5 cube. IT took me about 3 hours to work it out! I think once you know the 3x3x3 then all the same moves do similar things and you can easily solve 4x4x4 or 5x5x5 with variations. Of course there are some cool things you can do with these. I must say that I was disappointed with one web page that listed a bunch of moves for the 3x3x3 cube. I was trying some of them out and thinking, my god, how did anyone figure this out, only to then discover that a computer had figured them out. OK, that's certainly an interesting problem, but I have much more fun discovering them on my own. Interstingly enough, solving the dodecahedron led me to some neat new moves for the original cube! So where can we go from here? Have we made all the regular polyhedra into puzzles? Is there hope of actually building 6x6x6 and beyond cubes? Is there really any point to doing it? I suppose they would allow for some nice patterns. Does anyone know of any puzzles that are not in George Helm's collection? I just bought a Magic Cube puzzle at Walgreens for $3. It's a 3x3x3 with psychedelic stickers on it...