Problem with Dayan master skewb

[Magmatic]

I think my Dayan master skewb has a problem, or is it just me?

No matter how much I scramble it up, I can never get the corners in the right place and oriented correctly. If I try to place just the corners after scrambling it, one corner (with a tiny, trivial corner) always needs to be rotated counterclockwise.

I just followed instructions here to solve it.

but when I get to the end, I have two adjacent corners that need rotating. Both counterclockwise. I don't think this a possible place to be in in a regular skewb.

So am I caught in some sort of parity that I can't escape from? Our did I drop my master skewb and accidentally knock it into an impossible state?

Thanks.

 

[Ordway Persyn]

can't you just turn the corner into a solved position? It looks like it is just one turn away.

 

[Magmatic]

On a Dayan master skewb only every other "row" is turnable. So since that tiny tip is turnable (which you should be able to see in the picture), the next "level" is not. And on that other corner, the tiny tip is not turnable.

 

[Magmatic]

I solved the problem by taking it apart and putting it back together correctly.

 

[tnk351]

I solved the problem by taking it apart and putting it back together correctly.

But you can't always take it apart and put it back together. You need to find a way.

 

[4th dimension (time)]

Someone else was having trouble with this puzzle on Reddit. Just came here to share my parity alg for anyone else who stumbles across this post.

I found a 35 move alg that twists 2 non-trivial corners counter-clockwise. This should at least get you out of parity so that you can apply something like this. Here's how I derived the alg.