From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Thu Nov 7 16:09:46 1996 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Received: from curry.epilogue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curry.epilogue.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA22336; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 16:09:46 -0500 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961107155402.002b5d48@mentda.me.ic.ac.uk> X-Sender: ars2@mentda.me.ic.ac.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 15:54:02 +0000 To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu From: "The Unofficial Thermofluids Fan Club of the UK." Subject: Re: Rubik's Clock... I wrote this a few days ago but sent it to the wrong address......durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! here it is with an amendment. At 13:22 05/11/96 +1100, you wrote: >> >> Have any of you figured out how to solve Rubik's clock yet? Also, what is >> best source for cubes (and cube-like puzzles) that you know of? ...I >> normally shop at Puzzletts. > >Don Taylor and I wrote a book ``Mastering Rubik's Clock''. >Published in 1988 by Simon and Schuster which gives the >solution. >The clock is very easy to solve (hence the book is very >thin, only 16 pages). > >Leanne Rylands > > > > I once set about building a 5x5 rubiks clock, but I never got round to finishing it as I realised that I already knew how to solve the general NxN clock. I did get around to building a 32x2 Rubik's Magic, that's eight Rubiks Magics built into one array. It required a couple of customised inlays (i.e. I cut and pasted), and is still prone to misalignment and deligamentation (i.e. it falls apart a bit), but it works and the solution is just an extended version of the 4x2. It takes me about half an hour to solve, and is the equivelent of a good work out, that's why I haven't used it since I was about 14! I only used it to get one above the guys at school that could do the magic (4x2) in about one second, because I could never get any faster than 2 seconds! The smallest "Rubik's Magic" I've ever custom built was a 2x1, most people didn't have any problem with that one! Has anyone else ever extrapulated a puzzle to form a "Custom Master Edition"? I'd be interested to hear. from Wei-Hwa Huang Cube (Several releases) Mini Cube Revenge 4th Dimension (A cube with pictures) Race Game Snake (Many colors, three sizes) Magic (Link the Rings) Magic (Make the Cube) Magic (Unlink the Rings) Magic Game Magic Puzzle Clock Fifteen Rabbits Dice Triamid Tangle (4 versions) Maze I think there was also Rubik's Illusion, which was a game of chess using some sort of complex mapping. Cheers! Andrew R. Southern, The unofficial Thermo-Fluids Fan Club of the UK.