So, i bought the maze stickers.... what a nightmare

[DAE_JA_VOO]

How the HELL do you solve this thing? I have no idea where to even start!

 

[immortalcube]

GOD that looks hard! My best guess on how to solve it would be look at what it should look like solved, and use like colored tape or stickers to mark sides, like colors on a normal cube, then solve it regularly...

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Yes but that would defeat the object of the exercise completely. If i look at the photos i took, i can solve it very easily, but if i try to solve it without any assistance, i have absolutely no idea how to even start.

 

[shelley]

GOD that looks hard! My best guess on how to solve it would be look at what it should look like solved, and use like colored tape or stickers to mark sides, like colors on a normal cube, then solve it regularly...

That's no fun. If he wanted that, he would have just put normal color stickers on.

 

[immortalcube]

lol, I didn't say it would be a good way to do it, but if I had a mixed up one and just wanted it solved, that's what I would do...

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Well yeah, that's one way to do it, but that wouldn't be solving it. That would be reading the solution.

I want to find a way to actually SOLVE it, the way we solve our 3x3x3's

 

[pcharles93]

That thing would drive me crazy. I could probably only figure out most of it. The center orientations would get to me though. Now that I look at it, how the heck do you start that thing?

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Now that I look at it, how the heck do you start that thing?

EXACTLY. Man, if the center orientations were "fixed" or if i somehow knew them, it would make life a bit easier, but i don't even know that. That's why i say, i don't even know how to START solving this thing...

 

[brunson]

Someone gave me a sudoku cube. I think I've figured out how to solve it in my head, but it's going to take a pencil and paper and a lot of inspection.

 

[Cerberus]

you could look for a system and then solve it with old pochman style, you would not mess up anything and so you can solve it step by step. The problem is to know which piece has to go where....

 

[jonny guitar]

Someone gave me a sudoku cube. I think I've figured out how to solve it in my head, but it's going to take a pencil and paper and a lot of inspection.

Sudoku cubes are way easier than you think they are. Once you realize that the orientation of the numbers really only allows most of the cubes to go in one place it becomes very easy to solve.

 

[jonny guitar]

How the HELL do you solve this thing? I have no idea where to even start!

Hey, there is more than one solution to this cube so it a fraction easier than you think I would start with the center and work out in one direction with the two edges and the corner and go from there to the 2 layer edges and center of that corner, then into a 2x2x3 block -- I think this is called the Petrus method and I think it will be the easiest. Good luck dude!!!

 

[Harry]

How the HELL do you solve this thing? I have no idea where to even start!

Hey, there is more than one solution to this cube so it a fraction easier than you think I would start with the center and work out in one direction with the two edges and the corner and go from there to the 2 layer edges and center of that corner, then into a 2x2x3 block -- I think this is called the Petrus method and I think it will be the easiest. Good luck dude!!!

The problem is he doesn't even know the center......

 

[shelley]

Man, that is a nightmare. At least with sudokubes you can use the orientation of the numbers to figure out which pieces go where. With this any piece can go almost anywhere. And if you get lost it's hard to figure out where you were and what you've solved. I had that problem with a cheap sudokube, when I'd get lost in the middle of an algorithm because it jammed or a piece popped. I imagine that's ten times worse for the maze cube.

 

[Johannes91]

Has anyone found a solution by hand?

 

[jonny guitar]

Has anyone found a solution by hand?

I am sure that lots of people have...it is hard but not impossible. I read somewhere on twisty that there are quite a few (like over 10) possible solutions so I am pretty sure that it can be done with time and effort; the question is whether you can develope a system for a faster finish the 2nd time or whether it is strictly fluke solves.

 

[Johannes91]

Has anyone found a solution by hand?

I am sure that lots of people have...it is hard but not impossible.

There have been a few topics about this, but I don't remember hearing that anyone has found a solution. It's possible of course, but very boring. I can't think of anything significantly better than the obvious brute-force: Start somewhere and keep adding new pieces to the cycle, backtrack when you can't continue.

the question is whether you can develope a system for a faster finish the 2nd time or whether it is strictly fluke solves.

Well, if you always solve to the same position, it's easy to memorize it and solve quickly.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Looks like i'm going to be pulling these stickers off.

 

[linkmaster03]

LOL nice purchase eh?

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Well at least the stickers were cheap