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I'm at a friend's house and they had a cube that was unsolvable due to the color scheme being wrong. Opposites were next to each other. So I thought ok I'll just solve it with the centers where they are at, can't be any worse than trying a Roux solve. :) But no luck on that either, because there are things like two green and blue edges. It's strange because I can see some of the stickers were tampered with, but not enough to get it in a solvable position (even with the wrong scheme). Not sure what happened with this, but I'm determined to fix it now. :) May order a new set of stickers, don't know how this will turn out.

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I was googling it and saw about the Japanese color scheme, don't think I ever heard of that.

https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/japanese-western-color-schemes/
 
mark49152 said:
@Jason Green, I always hear the sticker peeling joke, and I can imagine that a few frustrated non-cubers might even resort to that, but what I can't fathom is why they would put back the stickers in a non-solved state...?
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When I was a kid, honest to god, I once tried to solve it by taking the stickers off (just once). So whenever I hear that joke ("I used to take the stickers off!"), my pat reply is now: "So did I!"
 
I've just bought a Rubik's brand 3x3x3 cube today. I'm rather pleased with it.
"Are you feeling OK, Juan?" I hear you ask as you shake your head... well it's actually one of these bad boys:
https://www.vat19.com/item/rubiks-cube-light
If Mark A. and Selkie can have Rubik's Cube mugs, then I'm happy to be the proud owner of a just-about fully functional giant light up transparent cube.
And best of all, it cost me just 50 Pence ( = 65 US cents), a Car Boot Sale bargain. It's in perfect condition, it needs a charger, but that's not a problem for me to sort out. It has some interesting design features, I'll post up a 'tear-down' later. It seems to have a lot of junk inside it, not just battery/switch/LED's.
It could benefit from some proper tensioning and lube (it's stiff and scratchy), and even with my big hands, I'm not going to OH it.

Jason: Japanese cubes just seem all wrong, blue and green next to each other?
I remember a girl in my class at school had a cheapo knock-off cube with two green faces, it wasn't quite as easy to solve as you'd think (generally confusing, plus a 'parity problem' due to the double-green edge).
 
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After playing with my Gigaminx for the last few days I've started up with Megaminx again and my current YJ YuHu is actually not that great. It catches a lot and is quite frustrating to try speed solve. I know there have been a bunch of new Megaminxes released lately. Anyone have any recommendations ?

btw ... the Gigaminx is *awesome* ... currently my favourite puzzle to solve. Not that it's difficult, but out of all my current puzzles is takes the longest time to solve. Decided to time a solve the other day and was so shocked to eventually end on 51 minutes. It honestly felt no longer than 30. I want a Teraminx now :-)
 
@Jason Green , @mark49152 - I agree, do not see why someone would want to peel stickers and still not solve it.

@SenorJuan - What a great car boot purchase, bargain sir. I have bought quite a few Rubik's brand things. Most recently a few T-Shirts from their Spread Shirt store

@JohnnyReggae - I know a couple of regulars on this thread have been a bit disappointed with it but the X-Man Galaxy Megaminx has been well accepted by the community. It is available in 4 types and I would personally recommend the 'sculptured' to give some additional grip. It is the main Megaminx use by both Lid and myself now together with some other solvers. I believe mafergut prefers the Shangshou Aurora and going a bit older the Dayan is not a bad buy and used by the current WR holder. Personally though I find The X-Man so much better.
 
Selkie said:
@JohnnyReggae - I know a couple of regulars on this thread have been a bit disappointed with it but the X-Man Galaxy Megaminx has been well accepted by the community. It is available in 4 types and I would personally recommend the 'sculptured' to give some additional grip. It is the main Megaminx use by both Lid and myself now together with some other solvers. I believe mafergut prefers the Shangshou Aurora and going a bit older the Dayan is not a bad buy and used by the current WR holder. Personally though I find The X-Man so much better.
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Is the sculpted version only available in stickerless ? Can't seem to find any others ... None of my puzzles are stickerless except for a pink Guanlong which I turned into a Phantom cube.

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@JohnnyReggae Yep, I'm the one that prefers the Shengshou Aurora Megaminx to the XMD Galaxy. It's got little ridges in the corners for better grip; you can have it in black with stickers, same nice shades that you got on your Gigaminx and it's smooth and corner cuts very well. If it's not on par with the Galaxy it's not that far off and, for me, the smooth turning is a plus that compensates for maybe the added stability of the Galaxy.

Definitely an improvement over the old SS Megaminx and arguably one of the two best Megas out of the box.

I would say don't get a Dayan unless you want to gamble getting a deffective core, like myself and many other people lately and you want to put a lot of effort in breaking it in and setting it up.

Also as a plus, the SS Aurora is the cheapest of the three.

Nice "Stickermod" with the Guanlong, by the way ;)
 
@JohnnyReggae I'm another SS Aurora guy. I own both the Sculted and Normal Stickered X-Man Galaxy. They both have great feels and I like them a lot. But I find the Aurora more controllable, plus I'm already hella used to the sticker shades. And to echo @mafergut, it's the lowest in terms of price, and I would argue, therefore, the greatest in terms of value. But it's gonna come down to your own personal preference.
 
"I've looked up a method"
Maybe I'm the only one saying No.o.o.o.o! you big cheat. A golden opportunity to work out how to solve it (it's not that hard), and you just looked on t'net straight away.
With all the advanced knowledge the web has given you, we're now expecting sub-10 sec solves pretty soon, you know.
 
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