From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:38 AM, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Rubik's Cube is a lot easier if you just peel all the stickers off >> > before you start. > > My middle daughter (who just started college fer gawd's sake!) was > around 2 1/2 or 3 when the Rubik's Cube craze hit our part of the > world. We had several of them around the house and we told her that > the idea was to get each side to be all the same colour. > > You see where I'm going here, right? > > One afternoon, with great pride, she showed my then-wife and me her > progress: she'd manipulated things so that almost two sides were > completely the same colour. > > I worked on one for days and days to get maybe one and a half solid > sides; we thought she must be some sort of a genius, a child prodigy, > ~something~! > > We got busy calling Harvard, Yale and Oxford seeking her early > admission, lining her up on the Tonight Show and Merv Griffin, but > before any of them got back to us, we spied her (I think it was a day > later), pulling stickers off and replacing them in the appropriate > places. She really wasn't cheating, we just never explained it to > her. Hey, she was showing real problem-solving skills, eh? > > Oh well, we came back to reality with a thud. > > cheers, > frank
If you know someone who's memorized the formula for solving it, and yes, it is a formula ... actually several of them you use sequentially ... here's a fun thing to do. Pry one corner block loose, rotate it 120 or 240 degrees & pop it back on. Thoroughly mix the sides & corners and leave it where your patsy can find it. Makes 'em completely crazy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
