From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Nov 19 13:41:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id NAA03513 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:40:59 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Message-Id: <19981117105414.18936.rocketmail@attach1.rocketmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 02:54:14 -0800 (PST) From: "Jorge E. Jaramillo" Subject: The Cylinder To: cube I was checking the Rubik official website and I was surprised not to find one product that I seem to find here (I live in Colombia South America) fairly easily. I am talking about the cylinder. When I first saw it I bought it and thought it was going to be some amazing and tricky to solve puzzle, it ended up being a 3x3 cube with the corners cut, so corner cubelets only have 2 colors and there are two types of borders, 8 borders with the usual two colors and 4 with only one. Does it mean that this cube was "invented" by some manufacturer other than Mr Rubik and that is not so common? === Jorge E Jaramillo [Moderator's note: I own such a puzzle, but I would call its shape an octagonal prism, rather than a cylinder. On mine, the solved position is not an octagonal prism because one beveled face is rotated 90 degrees, forming a decahedron whose faces are six rectangles and four irregular hexagons. I don't remember whether it was originally manufactured this way or whether I altered the color tabs. ]