Tim i dont think you have to say byebye to sub4avgs cause i think Odder Oka and Me and maybe some other pyrmainxer can do sub4 avg 100 with only 4tipit is not that hard i think
I didn't make any wrong assumption. I have looked on that code and found how the functions work. It just confirms what I was saying.
...var j = Math.floor(Math.random() * 3)
if (j < 2)...var tips=["l","r","b","u"];
for (i=0;i<4;i++) {
var j = Math.floor(Math.random() * [B][COLOR="red"]2[/COLOR][/B]);
if (j < 2) {
scramblestring[n] += tips[i] + ["","'"][j] + " ";
picmove(4+i,1+j,n);
}
}
Why wouldn't this be a puzzle? I consider a 1x1x2 still a puzzle. The simplest one that can possibly be...but it is one. It can be scrambled an solved. It has 2 states. The same goes for the tips...a puzzle with 3 states. Maybe I'm not the only one who thinks like that...
The point is that "var j = Math.floor(Math.random() * 2);" will always give a scrambled tip, therefore we will have a scrambled puzzle. Of course if we regard the tip as one.
Uh, what? Did you read the code? The function picks between [no turn, clockwise turn, counterclockwise turn] randomly for each tip, and prints the correct algorithm based on what it chose. It really does choose a random position. Your two points are exactly the same: there is no difference between choosing to not scramble a tip (and thus printing nothing) and choosing to scramble it by the equivalent of 0 degrees (and thus printing nothing).
This code is not "corrected" at all. In fact, it simply accomplishes a different task: to randomly choose one of the possible positions in which none of the tips remain solved, as opposed to what we do now, which is randomly choosing one of the possible positions with no restrictions.
Or perhaps "Budapest"
Why? I don't agree with this. Shouldn't all competitors have, if possible, the same difficulty for the puzzle? I don't think it's correct to give some to solve 10 1x1x2 and others 5, just because the generator "says" so...
No. Because for pyraminx it's something different and I mentioned also in the initial post. The tips can be solved totally independent from the rest of the puzzle. They don't influence the solve of the main body. Which is not the case for any other puzzle. This is why I think they can be regarded as a different puzzle.
I was thinking at a more simple 2D puzzle when I posted that
. Where only a U2 would solve it.Exactly. And my main question was if you think that "no turn" is a fair scrambling pick for the pyraminx' tip? Because I don't really think it is.
. Maybe I'm the only one who sees it like this. (As I said, I'm not pretending now to change the regulations because of this). Maybe "corrected" was not the right word.
It's just the code which I consider the "fair" one.
your saying that you cant solve the centres on a big cube with out effecting anything else?
