The way we solve the cube, it's not a puzzle. The Rubik's Cube, when solved without being taught, is indeed a puzzle. The fact that the Rubik's Cube has 12 additional orientation combinations for the centers (did I get that number right) is pretty trivial. If they want to define puzzle that way, fine, we just draw some arrows.
If anything, I think just citing the number of Rubik's Cube competitions compared to Sudoku competitions, and I think we can rest our case. Tyson Mao MSC #631 California Institute of Technology On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:21 AM, Jasmine Lee wrote: > 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 > > > > > > 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/
