Word puzzle cube

[cookingfat]

So I just bought a couple of cheap cubes from a gadget shop, one of them is a a 'word puzzle cube'

my girlfriend scrambled it before I got a proper chance to look at it in it's solved state and I'm having a hard time trying to solve it.

each side has to have the letters the correct way up and there has to be four 3-letter words on each face, up to down, left to right, top left to bottom right and bottom left to top right.

here's some pictures of the solved cube >

http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/cube-words-word-puzzle-cube.html

I think I've managed to do the first 2 layers (ignoring the centre orientation for now)

any help or tips on solving this?

 

[DavidWoner]

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and there is a hotlink to do so.

 

[cookingfat]

thanks, I've just emailed them.

response - [Dear Peter

Unfortunately I have looked at the cube and it is scrambled and there is no solver in the packaging.

Thanks for your email.

Best regards,
Dan]

Anyone else done one of these?

edit - I've got to a stage where all the pieces are solved except for 3 corners on the last layer. I've also made myself a mini cube from paper and I know exactly where every piece goes now, so I should be able to work it out using pochmann method.

edit 2 - All I need now is to swap the UF edge with the UL edge....

 

[CAT13]

edit 2 - All I need now is to swap the UF edge with the UL edge....

you should probably use a void cube parity alg

Or maybe there are a couple pieces that have the same letters that you also have to swap, then void cube parity wouldn't be needed

 

[cookingfat]

edit 2 - All I need now is to swap the UF edge with the UL edge....

you should probably use a void cube parity alg

YES ! that did it, thanks. This is one hard cube to solve

 

[CAT13]

edit 2 - All I need now is to swap the UF edge with the UL edge....

you should probably use a void cube parity alg

YES ! that did it, thanks. This is one hard cube to solve

you're welcome

 

[Brett]

Do you have a picture of it solved? Looks very interesting.

 

[cookingfat]

yeah sure >




and here's my working out >



it's a shame it's a brick cube (no springs) maybe one day I'll make a DIY version with custom PVC stickers.