Hi :-) I have heard those things before, that the cube is NOT a puzzle. The reason given wass that you simply follow steps that u know beforehand. That the cube is not a puzzle because it has several solved states sounds a bit lame: too theoretical and far fetched. Anyhow, maybe one could say that the cube is a puzzle only as long as u work it all out by urself, and that until the solving becomes "mechanical" it remains a puzzle and after that only a toy ?
Whether the cube is a toy or a puzzle is not really so interesting. One can still have heaps of fun with it. It gets more intriguing the more u learn about it ;-) Cheers! -Per PS! The normal 3x3x3 cube has (4^6)/2 = 2048 "solved states". It's impossible to turn a singular center 90 degrees. > --- In [email protected], "Jasmine Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <*> 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/
