From dik@cwi.nl Wed Dec 15 21:40:59 1993 Return-Path: Received: from charon.cwi.nl by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA21903; Wed, 15 Dec 93 21:40:59 EST Received: from boring.cwi.nl by charon.cwi.nl with SMTP id AA18555 (5.65b/3.12/CWI-Amsterdam); Thu, 16 Dec 1993 03:40:43 +0100 Received: by boring.cwi.nl id AA11474 (4.1/2.10/CWI-Amsterdam); Thu, 16 Dec 93 03:40:42 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 03:40:42 +0100 From: Dik.Winter@cwi.nl Message-Id: <9312160240.AA11474.dik@boring.cwi.nl> To: Don.Woods@eng.sun.com Subject: Re: Description of Tangle, Part 2 Cc: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu > > Is this the reason why Rubik has gone into hiding? I haven't seen any > > puzzle from him after this set of 4 released in 1990/1991. > > Hm, didn't "Square-1" come out later than the Tangles? Square-1 is not by Rubik. But he came this year with two new puzzles (at least, they are in his name). Rubik's Maze and Rubik's Hat. In the first there are 6 connected cubes with a black/yellow pattern on them. The cubes can turn around each other fairly freely. The purpose is to get a 1x2x3 where there is a single black continuous line along the cubes. Not very difficult, interesting. Rubik's Hat is in the form of a hat with six rings on it. You can look trough it (and through the rings by implication). By turning rings you see more or less rabbits. The purpose is to see a rabbit in every position. I think the puzzle is based on light polarization, with different polarizations coming through the segments of the rings. dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl