From MONET01@mizzou1.missouri.edu Tue Jun 23 13:31:40 1992 Return-Path: Received: from MIZZOU1.missouri.edu ([128.206.2.2]) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA17944; Tue, 23 Jun 92 13:31:40 EDT Message-Id: <9206231731.AA17944@life.ai.mit.edu> Received: from MIZZOU1 by MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 4884; Tue, 23 Jun 92 12:31:20 CDT Received: by MIZZOU1 (Mailer R2.08) id 2332; Tue, 23 Jun 92 12:31:19 CDT Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 12:21:27 CDT From: MONET01@mizzou1.missouri.edu To: cube-lovers@life.ai.mit.edu Subject: Ultimate cube The recent posting about cubes with photos has prompted me to post about my favorite cube. I picked this one up around the end of the BIG cube craze and have kept it in my desk every since. The cube looks like someone took a knife to a normal solved cube and cut a diagonal 'x' through each face and folded the flaps back down the sides. This leads to a cube where opposing centers have an 'x' that has four colors in a mirror image. (It is hard to describe, sorry.) This cube has to be solved and then the centers oriented properly. The slick thing about the cube is that part way through the solution (fairly early on), you may have to swap top for bottom and start over. I like to fiddle with it because at first glance it looks impossible to determine which cubelet is which to a novice and to a semi-experienced cubist it is not as easy as it looks. The cube was made by ULTRACO and is called ULTIMATE CUBE (copyrighted 1982). Unfortunately, when I went back a few weeks later to buy a couple more cubes, they were all gone and the sales people had no idea what I was talking about. I think I got this cube at a Mall toy store. If anyone knows where I can get a replacement, I would be interested as the printing on a few squares has faded just like my youth.