From dn1l+@andrew.cmu.edu Fri Aug 6 23:27:13 1993 Return-Path: Received: from po3.andrew.cmu.edu by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA10683; Fri, 6 Aug 93 23:27:13 EDT Received: from localhost (postman@localhost) by po3.andrew.cmu.edu (8.5/8.5) id XAA27259; Fri, 6 Aug 1993 23:27:10 -0400 Received: via switchmail; Fri, 6 Aug 1993 23:27:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from niobe.weh.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Fri, 6 Aug 1993 23:22:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from niobe.weh.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Fri, 6 Aug 1993 23:22:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mms.0.1.23.EzMail.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.niobe.weh.andrew.cmu.edu.pmax.ul4 via MS.5.6.niobe.weh.andrew.cmu.edu.pmax_ul4; Fri, 6 Aug 1993 23:22:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 23:22:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dale I. Newfield" To: cube-lovers@life.ai.mit.edu Subject: Tangle (Was: Re: Square-1 Puzzle Party) In-Reply-To: <930806124838.23c011ac@EQL12.Caltech.Edu> Excerpts from mail: 6-Aug-93 Re: Square-1 Puzzle Party by Chris Worrell@eql12.calt >>Bring your Square-1, your Rubik's Cube, and your other Rubik's puzzles that >>you haven't been able to solve! >Sorry, I don't have any. Except the 10x10 Rubik's Tangle. I only have one quarter of that puzzle...(section 4). I worked on it for a considerable amount of time, and concluded that the only solution method was trial and error. So I wrote a program to do it for me. I know all 16 solutions (2 unique)*(2 identical exchanged pieces)*(4 orientations). Has anyone come up with a method, besides trial and error, that solves this thing? (or the 10x10?) (hmmm--I wonder how much the other 3 would cost?) -Dale Newfield dn1l@{cs,andrew}.cmu.edu