Hi guys!
It's been a long time since my last article and I apologize for that. But here I am again! Today we are going to explore the exciting part of my hobby, where one's brain gets really strained. Let's talk today about some of the weirdest and creativest type of Rubik's Cubes. Of course, they are all hardest to solve - to put it mildly - than the classic 3x3x3. I won't ask you to learn to solve them, and to be honest I can't solve half of them, but I will make you discover some cubes you wouldn't suspect to exist. Ready to start?
1 - The Rubik's Cube 2.0
This cube looks futuristic, and is impressive at first sight. The reason is that all faces are mirrors, with no colors. The only differences between the pieces is their shape. Therefore, the cube when scrambled looks like a huge mess. But the method to solve it is more or less the same as the classic cube.
Impressed? You may be, but you have to know that this one is a child's play compared to what follows.
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The Pyraminx is a puzzle in the shape of a tetrahedron, divided into 4 axial pieces, 6 edge pieces, and 4 trivial tips. It can be twisted along its cuts to permute its pieces. the axial pieces are octahedral in shape, although this is not immediately obvious, and can only rotate around the axis they are attached to. The 6 edges can be freely permuted. The trivial tips are so called because they can be twisted independently of all other pieces, making them trivial to place in solved position.
The level of difficulty increases, but the pyraminx is not the hardest cube to solve!
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3 - The Caterpillars
Even if you've already seen some amazing Cubes, I bet you have never seen one like this one. Take several mini-cubes, and put them together. You will obtain this crazy-looking version of the 2x2x2 Cube. With the cube intersecting one another, it complicates things a little bit.
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4 - Pentaminx
Considered as the hardest "regular" Rubik's Cube ever created. 12 faces, 975 individual pieces, 1212 stickers that each had to be place by hand. It took 75 hours to his creator to build this crazy thing. Guess how long you would need to solve it...
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5 - The Sudokube
This cube doesn't look spectacular, but do not be fooled: this is the hardest Rubik's Cube to solve. To be honest I'm not sure if someone ever managed to get a Sudokube solved. There are so much constraints! The numbers have to be all oriented the same way, there can't be more than once the same number on each face. To solve it you have first to draw the pattern of the cube on a paper sheet, and to solve the sudoku. But it is amazingly hard because first the pattern won't be squared, and second you have to take account of the edges and the corners, which implies that some numbers will always be linked. In short, this cube is insane and will drive you crazy if you try it.
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