Today a friend showed me a passage in her Sudoku book which claimed that the Rubik's Cube is NOT a puzzle. Their claim is that anything which has more than one solved state is not a puzzle. Their reason is that because the centres on a standard Rubik's Cube can have various different orientations and we still consider it 'solved', then it isn't a puzzle. By this definition only supercubes are puzzles.
I thought the book sounded pretty crap. My friend didn't necessarily believe it either, but had told me about it because she knew I'd be interested in anything that mentioned cubes. Maybe the author was just trying to convince sudoku solvers that they are cooler than cubers?? ;) What does everyone else think? BTW, I consulted Wikipedia to see what it had to say on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle (You'll see that the cube is almost the definition of puzzle in Wikipedia! Well, not quite, but you'll see what I mean if you follow this link.) Jasmine http://speedcuber.blogspot.com -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
