Didn´t you mean 2048? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyson Mao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [Speed cubing group] Rubik's cube the 'puzzle'
> 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 > > > > > > 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/
