Any Shepherd's Cube or Maze Cube fans?

[jonny guitar]

I really dig the Shepherd's cube for a nice change of pace from the regular cubes. I like it because it is harder but not crazy hard. Is the maze cube a similar thing or is it just silly only solve it by luck hard? I don't want to buy stickers if it is just going to be a turn hope turn pray turn thing.

 

[joey]

I bought a maze cube from cube4you. I don't think he stickered it properly, since there was one part of the maze that didnt properly match up!

Then... my brother was scrambling and POPed it! So I just gave up on it, it sits on my shelf now, most likely unsolvable.

I think, from my few minutes of trying before it POPed, it would be a very difficult solve. (And personally, not difficult for good reasons)

 

[jonny guitar]

I think, from my few minutes of trying before it POPed, it would be a very difficult solve. (And personally, not difficult for good reasons)

that is kinda what my thoughts are on it too. The Shepherd is harder but nothing like that. My Shep pos all the time but it is easy to mostly do it and switch the last couple peices. If I do a maze cube it will be on a rubiks which never pops.

 

[cwdana]

I got the maze stickers from puzzle pros and the DIY. So I stickered it myself. And I don't think there is any "right" or "wrong" way to sticker it. You just kind of make designs.

And to that point, I don't think there's a right or wrong way to solve it. (And it doesn't help that the stickers keep falling off. I don't think I waited long enough post-washing/lubbing/sanding.)

 

[jonny guitar]

I got the maze stickers from puzzle pros and the DIY. So I stickered it myself. And I don't think there is any "right" or "wrong" way to sticker it.

I am pretty sure that there is but one true way to solve it and have the line uninterupted around the cube....I am obsessive so this is the only solution that I could except and I think it might just drive me crazy.


As for your stickers, alcohol rub down before applying stickers will get off any grease type residue and make for the best adhesion.

 

[cwdana]

I got the maze stickers from puzzle pros and the DIY. So I stickered it myself. And I don't think there is any "right" or "wrong" way to sticker it.

I am pretty sure that there is but one true way to solve it and have the line uninterupted around the cube....I am obsessive so this is the only solution that I could except and I think it might just drive me crazy.

Maybe. But it's more fun as a desk piece. It would be pretty hard to actually solve unless you came up with a method of memorization. A serious method of memorization.

 

[jonny guitar]

^^ yeah I hear you about the fun but unfortunately my personality won't work like that.

 

[Johannes91]

I got the maze stickers from puzzle pros and the DIY. So I stickered it myself. And I don't think there is any "right" or "wrong" way to sticker it.

I am pretty sure that there is but one true way to solve it and have the line uninterupted around the cube.

I am pretty sure that there is more than one such position.

 

[jonny guitar]

^^^

I don't know about that. According to cubesmith's site of his maze stickers, "all the eight corner parts are different from each other, and they don't look the same after a rotation. Similarly, the twelve edge parts are different and don't look identical after a flip".

Do you know for sure that there is more than one solution?

 

[Johannes91]

Do you know for sure that there is more than one solution?

I think someone has calculated the number of positions for different numbers of cycles formed, but I can't find a link. I could just remember wrong. So no, I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Feanaro]

I saw a guy at the Chattahoochee 08 that had a Sepherds cube. He could solve it pretty quick. It looks pretty cool too.

 

[JU1CYFRU1T]

I can't find a diagram for stickering the Shepherds cube ANYWHERE. There is a link on Cubesmith... but it takes you to some German database storage site.

I thought that I read somewhere that it is important to make sure that the arrows are stickered in the right direction, so I don't want to 'mess it up'. Can someone please post a picture, or diagram as to how it should be stickered.

Ideally, an 'exploded' cube view would be best, or just an explaination as to which way everything is pointing in relation to the F face (i.e. F points ___[up, down, left right], L points ___[up, down, towards, away], R points ____[up, down, towards, away], B points ____[up, down, left, right], U points ____[left, right, towards, away], D points _____[left, right, towards, away] as viewed from the F face).

Thanks,

 

[Johannes91]

There are 2 cycles.

F points to U, U points to R, and R points to F.
B points to D, D points to L, and L points to B.

 

[JU1CYFRU1T]

THANK YOU!!! I have been trying to find this for almost a week.