is my cube broken?

[MYKE]

i few days ago i baught a rubik's cube of ebay...
and every time i try to solve it the stickers seem to be in the wrong place, so i took the peices apart and put them back together in a solved state and seems to ok.

so if the stickers have been moved by someone does that mean it's impossible to solve?
MYKE...

 

[joey]

If the stickers have been changed, yes it will be impossivble to solve.

 

[MYKE]

Originally posted by joey@May 28 2007, 12:10 PM
If the stickers have been changed, yes it will be impossivble to solve.

would it be worth getting it to the second layer and rechanging them?

thats where it keeps going wrong!

 

[MYKE]

would it be worth getting it to the second layer and rechanging them?

thats where it keeps going wrong!

 

[joey]

Solve it as much as you can then re sticker it. Or buy some new stickers, and resticker it all.

 

[MYKE]

any tips on doing that?

iv done two stickers and they look GASH!

 

[MYKE]

any tips on doing that?

iv done two stickers and they look GASH!

is there a certain glue i should use?

 

[John Lee]

buy stickers from cubesmith.com

 

[MYKE]

what if iv, erm... superglued two of them on?

 

[joey]

Scrape them off.

 

[pjk]

Just so you know, you can always solve the first two layers of the cube no matter how messed up the stickers are. So solve the first two layers, then change the stickers on that top slice. Or if your cubes stickers are really messed up, just replace all the stickers by peeling them off, and putting new ones on.

 

[Johannes91]

Originally posted by PJK@May 29 2007, 04:14 PM
Just so you know, you can always solve the first two layers of the cube no matter how messed up the stickers are.

That is true only if the cube is just assembled incorrectly. But if stickers have been peel off and swapped, it's very possible that solving F2L (or even one single cubie!) is impossible.

 

[pjk]

Ah, my bad, I meant cubies, not stickers. Thanks Johannes for the correction!

 

[Inferno.Fighter.IV]

If you can disassemble it and reassemble it in a solved state then it's fine, you don't need to get new stickers.