Rubik's 360 Puzzle Ball

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Point an incorrectly-oriented gear ring towards you. For instance, the red half of the gear ring might be in the blue face, and the blue half in the red face. Hold the ball so that this mismatched gear ring is looking you straight in the eye. [13] X Research source Locate the 8 sets of interior pieces that need reoriented. At this point, there are only 2 scenarios: either all the interior pieces will already be in their proper faces (this is rare), or exactly 8 pairs of interior pieces will need to be flipped. Look over the ball to find the 8 pairs that need to be reoriented, then choose a pair to start with. [10] X Research source In some cases, using R2-U-R2-U will not only put the interior pieces in the proper vicinity, but also place them in the correct face as well (for example, yellow into yellow). Spin the ball to get a feel for how it rotates. Because of the gear rings that span adjacent faces, you can spin the right or left thirds of the sphere either up or down, or the top or bottom thirds either left or right. When you do so, the center third will follow in the same direction but cover half the distance.

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Eventually, you'll be able to match the colors of the corners and centers in each of the other 4 faces. I tested the solution against a Service created in Automator.app that receives the selected text as the input. The Service and the pure AppleScript solution pretty much took equal amounts of time to complete (i.e, about one second). Solutions to this cube is similar to a regular 3x3x3 except that odd-parity combinations are possible with this puzzle. This cube uses a special mechanism due to absence of a central core.First rotational puzzle created that has just one colour, [9] requiring the solver to restore the puzzle to its original cube form without colour aids. Similar to the original Rubik's Cube, the Skewb differs in that its four axes of rotation pass through the corners of the cube rather than the centres of the faces. As a result, it is a deep-cut puzzle in which each twist scrambles all six faces. A dodecahedron cut into 20 corner pieces and 30 edge pieces. It is similar to the Megaminx, but is deeper cut, giving edges that behave differently from the Megaminx's edges when twisted. Tower Cube" (in Japanese). Gentosha Education. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04 . Retrieved 2012-05-24. The cubelets are connected by an elastic band running through them. They can rotate freely. The aim of the puzzle is to arrange the chain in such a way that they will form 3 x 3 x 3 or 4 x 4 x 4 cube.

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Similar to the Gear Cube but on one axis there are no gears allowing for 3x3x3 turns on the top and bottom layer. Significantly harder than a Gear cube. For example, the red side of the gear ring will be in the red face, and the blue side in the blue face. Solution is much the same as 3×3×3 cube except additional (and relatively simple) algorithm(s) are required to unscramble the centre pieces and edges and additional parity not seen on the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. Very possibly the simplest regular cuboid puzzle to solve. Completely trivial solution as the puzzle consists of only two cubies.

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A holey burr puzzle is characterised by internal holes, which usually allow for sliding movements of individual pieces or groups of pieces. The level of a holey burr puzzle specifies how many sliding movements are necessary to assemble or disassemble the puzzle. An octahedral variation on the Skewb, it is a deep-cut puzzle very similar to the Skewb and is a dual-polyhedron transformation.

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If you took the classic Rubik’s Cube mechanical puzzle and changed it into the shape of a ball, you’d get something that looked much like this 3-D IQ Sphere. Overall, this is not a bad workaround. The contents of the clipboard are preserved and the delay is much less noticeable if you employ the code provided in Shane's second comment. These puzzles are made by bonding additional cubies to an existing puzzle. They therefore do not add to the complexity of the puzzle configuration, they just make it look more complex. Solution strategies remain the same, though a scrambled puzzle can have a strange appearance. Turn the ball via the “R-U-R-U-R-U” algorithm once. With the 4 correct interior pairs in the “standing slice” position, turn the right side of the ball up 180 degrees (½ turn). Then, turn the upper side to the left 180 degrees (½ turn). Repeat these turns 2 more times apiece. [12] X Research source If, for example, you’re holding the Gear Ball so that there’s a red corner on top of a yellow corner to the left, you may be able to rotate the right side of the ball up or down until you have a red corner on top of a yellow corner to the right as well.

This article was co-authored by wikiHow staff writer, Christopher M. Osborne, PhD. Christopher Osborne has been a wikiHow Content Creator since 2015. He is also a historian who holds a PhD from The University of Notre Dame and has taught at universities in and around Pittsburgh, PA. His scholarly publications and presentations focus on his research interests in early American history, but Chris also enjoys the challenges and rewards of writing wikiHow articles on a wide range of subjects. Go through the “R2-U-R2-U” algorithm once. Rotate the right side of the ball upward 180 degrees (½ turn) twice (“R2”), then rotate the upper side to the left 180 degrees (½ turn) once (“U”). Then, repeat the process again—so it’s right-twice-up, right-twice-up or R2-U-R2-U. [8] X Research source Rotate any other misaligned gear rings into position with R4. Look over the ball to see if there are any gear rings still out of alignment. If so: [16] X Research source Identical to the Rubik's Cube in mechanical function, it adds another layer of difficulty in that the numbers must all have the same orientation and there are no colours to follow. The name reflects its superficial resemblance to the two-dimensional Sudoku number puzzle.