From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Mar 17 11:43:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id LAA05013; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:43:37 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Sun Mar 15 06:19:03 1998 To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Subject: Re: Blindfold Cube-solving Date: 15 Mar 1998 11:17:40 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-Id: <6egdck$cvj@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: The Moderator wrote: >[ Moderator's note: You'll notice this is a different topic. Perhaps > Wei-Hwa Huang should consider his problem "memory solving" rather > than "blindfold solving". I've heard that John Conway has a good > memory method, I think requiring five peeks (cf Roger Frye, 20 Oct > 1981). There are also several mentions of tactile cubes in the > archives. ] I used the term "blindfold solving" patterned after "blindfold chess", where two players merely recite moves to each other, using no actual pieces or board. As far as "solving in the dark" goes, it reminds me that I have a cube in which under certain lamps, the yellow and white colors are indistinguishable. Solving such a cube can occasionally give a few trip-ups! -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Smoking cigarettes are bad for you, so smoking cigarettes is bad for you.