From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Fri Sep 3 19:04:22 1999 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 TAA20566 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:04:22 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 01:35:45 +0100 From: David Singmaster To: pink@cartserv.rserv.uga.edu CC: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Message-ID: <009DCC4C.2E241665.12@ice.sbu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Skewb notes Regarding disassembly of the skewb and the various skewballs. The early versions disassemble quite easily and when I put them out at exhibition, I regularly have to reassemble them. However, I have just learned from Yee Dian Lee at the International Puzzle Party that the more recent skewballs are quite hard to take apart and he finds that he has to break a piece in order to do so! He puts them inside jars! DAVID SINGMASTER, Professor of Mathematics and Metagrobologist School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics Southbank University, London, SE1 0AA, UK. Tel: 0171-815 7411; fax: 0171-815 7499; email: zingmast or David.Singmaster @sbu.ac.uk