Hi,
I have been messing arround with a maze cube lately (http://www.puzzleproz.com/ebay/images/misc_stickers/maze_cube.jpg) and I could solve it using an auxiliary draw of what the cube looks like when it is solved.
If anyone out there owns one of these, I would appreciate to share some impressions and knowledge about this cube. I have two major questions:
1 - Is it possible to solve it by pure logic, that is, without looking or having an auxiliary picture of the solved state? (trial and error based solves excluded)?
2 - I am practicing on solving this cube and last time I faced a situation solving my top layer where I had all the edges in place, correctly oriented, but the center piece was rotated 90 degrees from where it was supposed to be. I am using the beginner's method to solve the last layer. The problem is that a friend scrambled the cube again before I had the chance to check if the first 2 layers were properly solved, or if I made some silly mistake and one edge wasn't in the right place... So the question is: can this happen in a maze cube? If so, how can I avoid it? Maybe using 4ll to solve the last layer?
Any other tips & hints, feedback, etc, are appreciated. Btw, I *did* find the older thread from 2010 about this cube, but I didn't really find an answer to these questions.
See ya arround,
Fill
I have been messing arround with a maze cube lately (http://www.puzzleproz.com/ebay/images/misc_stickers/maze_cube.jpg) and I could solve it using an auxiliary draw of what the cube looks like when it is solved.
If anyone out there owns one of these, I would appreciate to share some impressions and knowledge about this cube. I have two major questions:
1 - Is it possible to solve it by pure logic, that is, without looking or having an auxiliary picture of the solved state? (trial and error based solves excluded)?
2 - I am practicing on solving this cube and last time I faced a situation solving my top layer where I had all the edges in place, correctly oriented, but the center piece was rotated 90 degrees from where it was supposed to be. I am using the beginner's method to solve the last layer. The problem is that a friend scrambled the cube again before I had the chance to check if the first 2 layers were properly solved, or if I made some silly mistake and one edge wasn't in the right place... So the question is: can this happen in a maze cube? If so, how can I avoid it? Maybe using 4ll to solve the last layer?
Any other tips & hints, feedback, etc, are appreciated. Btw, I *did* find the older thread from 2010 about this cube, but I didn't really find an answer to these questions.
See ya arround,
Fill