From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Mar 11 18:27:53 1999 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 SAA15052 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:27:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903112327.SAA15052@mc.lcs.mit.edu> Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:40:45 -0500 (EST) From: Nicholas Bodley To: Patrick Weidhaas Cc: Kevin Young , RUBIK cube group Subject: Re: Oddzon version of the cube In-Reply-To: On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Patrick Weidhaas wrote: {snips} }Kevin, } }I do not have an answer for you, but your email made me wonder why stickers }are being used at all? As far as I know, nobody has produced a cube (or }variation) where the plastic "cubies" are colored appropriately without }relying on stickers. Ideal once made a deluxe Cube that had individual colored plastic tiles attached to the cubies. It also had a mechanism (same general principle, just different details) that would self-align as you began a maneuver with a slight misalignment, instead of jamming. In other words, it was a good bit more tolerant of misalignment. It would be delightful if they'd reissue it! }Is that process so much more expensive, or do the }toy-makers want to give their customers a chance to cheat by switching the }stickers in case they can't get the puzzle solved? It was maybe almost twice the price of the standard Cube, iirc. Swapping stickers is silly! Learn how to disassemble (but reassemble as a solved Cube; iirc, there are 11 wrong ways to do it, essentially). Most of the movable-piece puzzles can be disassembled, but not all. }Patrick |* Nicholas Bodley *|* Autodidact & Polymath * Electronic Tech. (ret.) |* Waltham, Mass. *|* ----------------------------------------------- |* nbodley@tiac.net *|* Frequent crashes are unacceptable in a mature |* Amateur musician *|* computer industry. --------------------------------------------------------------------------