From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Sun Feb 9 17:45:35 1997 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 RAA12140; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 17:45:34 -0500 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 16:54:42 -0500 (EST) From: Dale Newfield Reply-To: DNewfield@cs.virginia.edu To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Broken Cube In-Reply-To: <32F99BFC.7299@ibm.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Jin Time Traveler Kim wrote: > I got this brilliant idea that I could make something similar, so out > came the hacksaw.... After about an hour and a half of cutting I > realized that I had completely ruined a perfectly good cube. I finally got around to building a bandaged pair of cubes XXX XXX XXXXX XXX XXX and a bandaged 5-cube XXX XXX XXX XXX XXXXXXX XXX XXXXXXX XXX XXX XXX XXX I agree--the process was very painful and very full of black shavings, but now that I am done, I am very pleased with the final result. :-) The impetus for this fit of cube-construction came from the book "The book of ingenious & diabolical puzzles" by Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans. Also resulting from the same fit are a round cube with what look like two 2x2x2's sticking out of it, and a regular cube in which two opposite corners and all the adjacent pieces are round. All of these came after taking a good look at pages 124 and 125 of this book--a page full of a very interesting collection of sequential movement puzzles. Thie is a really neat book that will make any collector drool, so keep your eyes out for it :-) -Dale