Kabuthunk
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I wasn't entirely sure what forum to post this is, but going off the descriptions of the forums, this seemed to be the best bet.
In either case, to make a long story short, I'm trying to find the best way to put a set of coordinates onto a Rubik's Cube, so that it needs to be solved in order to get the coordinates. Those familiar with Geocaching will know what I'm talking about. Otherwise, if you're not familiar, I basically have two strings of characters, each one being 10 characters long ideally (ie: "N49_51.327"). I can pare that down to 9 by removing the space, which I've done below in a few test attempts:
I've concluded that having the strings of characters down the middle rows is bad, since you get the middle-square rotation which could be an issue, and they don't need to solve any corners. Going along two edge rows forces a full solve, but I was hoping to cross over all colours of the cube... which doesn't work well when trying to stop things from intersecting eachother.
I suppose I could remove the dot as well, and strip it down to 8 characters. I need the letter at the beginning however, so 8 is the shortest I would be willing to go. Can anyone think of any better way of arranging the strings of characters over the cube?
tldr: See picture. Got two equal-length lines of 10, 9, or 8 characters each that I need on a cube without them intersecting. Best suggestions that require a full solve?
In either case, to make a long story short, I'm trying to find the best way to put a set of coordinates onto a Rubik's Cube, so that it needs to be solved in order to get the coordinates. Those familiar with Geocaching will know what I'm talking about. Otherwise, if you're not familiar, I basically have two strings of characters, each one being 10 characters long ideally (ie: "N49_51.327"). I can pare that down to 9 by removing the space, which I've done below in a few test attempts:
I've concluded that having the strings of characters down the middle rows is bad, since you get the middle-square rotation which could be an issue, and they don't need to solve any corners. Going along two edge rows forces a full solve, but I was hoping to cross over all colours of the cube... which doesn't work well when trying to stop things from intersecting eachother.
I suppose I could remove the dot as well, and strip it down to 8 characters. I need the letter at the beginning however, so 8 is the shortest I would be willing to go. Can anyone think of any better way of arranging the strings of characters over the cube?
tldr: See picture. Got two equal-length lines of 10, 9, or 8 characters each that I need on a cube without them intersecting. Best suggestions that require a full solve?