From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Dec 29 15:00:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id PAA22498 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:00:41 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:22:08 -0500 (EST) From: Nicholas Bodley Reply-To: Nicholas Bodley To: Jono Cc: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Other Cubes In-Reply-To: <3685267B.D1459EC7@geocities.com> Message-Id: On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Jono wrote: }Hi, cube lovers. I have a few questions. }Does anyone know if Erno Rubik is still alive? Quite likely. There's a Website that might help you find out: http://www.rubiks.com Try a Web search (I like the meta-search engines; Metasearch and Metafind are a couple). }About 4 years I vaguely remember seeing a large star-shaped }rubiks puzzle. It might well have bees Alexander's Star. As to finding one, sorry to say, I can't help. Rather sure it wasn't a Rubik design, though. It was harder to manipulate mechanically than one might like. Not sure, but I think I've seen it it a store. You might try a Web puzzle dealer. (...Puzzletts.com ?) } Does anyone know where I can find one? I am also looking for a 4x4x4 }and a 5x5x5 cube. Where can I find one? For the 5^3, in addition to Meffert, as Dan said, Dr. Christoph Bandelow, in Germany, was selling them, as well, I'm almost certain. The store [The Games People Play] on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge, Mass., might have them in stock. Sorry, but I've lost track of Dr. Bandelow's address. My general impression is that there's enough interest in the 5^3 to have revived production, although it could have been just one big run. Fwiw, (honestly, not much!), my experience regarding the 4^3 agrees with Dan's comments. }[ Moderator's note: Cube-lovers-request gets a lot of requests for } information on finding 4^3 and 5^3 puzzles. I'm pretty sure there } is no source of 4^3 puzzles, except for the occasional auction. } Last I heard Uwe Meffert sells 5^3 puzzles at } http://www.ue.net/mefferts-puzzles/ --Dan ] } |* Nicholas Bodley *|* Electronic Technician {*} Autodidact & Polymath |* Waltham, Mass. *|* ----------------------------------------------- |* nbodley@tiac.net *|* The personal computer industry will have become |* Amateur musician *|* mature when crashes become unacceptable. --------------------------------------------------------------------------