From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Sat Jan 22 17:55:22 2000 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 RAA02980 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:55:22 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:58:11 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Browne To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Rubik's Revenge by Oddzon In-Reply-To: <387C51CD.706ED535@ibm.net> Message-Id: On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jin 'Time Traveler' Kim wrote: > Enter the Oddzon Cube. [...] > This will be THE Revenge I play with, not just because it will be in > production, but because it is by far the best feeling. > If anybody doubts my claim to the puzzle's smoothness, I will gladly > send them one of my Oddzon Revenges. I am willing to part with two of > them just so you can get a feel for the mechanism. I will choose two > people to receive the cubes (chosen at my discretion) for an > evaluation. If you don't think the puzzle is smooth, just mail it back > to me and I'll cover the postage. I don't know... I found it really distubing that they couldn't even be bothered to change the sticker to read "Rubik's Revenge" instead of "Rubik's Cube", and I've heard from some people that the OddzOn version fell apart as soon as they turned it once. I picked up a Meffert's version. Not only is it $2 less than the OddzOn version and shipped free worldwide, but it's also apparently designed for speed cubing. Instead of using stickers of any kind, Meffert decided to go with tiles for all his puzzles, which definitely aren't coming off any time soon. To add to the challenge, Meffert grooved all the tiles, so if you'd like you can also treat it as a junior version of a picture cube (junior because there's still pairs of centres which are completely indistibguishable). L8r. Cubic Puzzles - The SIMPLEST Solutions http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~ue451/solves.html