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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:47:48 -0700
From: Derek Bosch <bosch@sgi.com>
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To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu
Subject: scrambling puzzle

anyone know the "shortest" sequence of moves to "scramble"
a cube...  By scramble, my definition is:

all six colors on each face (except for 2x2x2), no 2 adjacent tiles
of the same color, and no "dominating" color on a face (ie for
a 3x3x3 cube, no more than 2 of a single color on a face, for
4x4x4, no more than 3 of a given color on a face).

D
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