If you have a white sticker facing the top, position the white sticker over something that is not white (because it will disrupt whatever is underneath), and, depending on if the piece is on the right or on the left, perform the following algorithm: If the matched sticker is left of center, perform the Left Trigger. If the matched sticker in the top layer is right of the center, perform the Right Trigger. Once you’ve paired them, face the color-matched stickers toward you. (Planes are an ideal place to practice cubing.) The improvements came more slowly after that, but within a fortnight I’d lowered my average solve time to a little under 60 seconds. I broke the two-minute barrier a couple days later, on a cross-country flight to Florida. Then I practiced performing them faster and more precisely.īy day three I was solving the cube in under four minutes. First I memorized a handful of algorithms (cuber lingo for defined sequences of moves known to advance a cube closer to its solved state). But I kept at it: For two weeks I spent at least 20 minutes a day scrambling my cube and solving it the way Mao had taught me. My first time solving the cube on my own took me more than 20 minutes. Ninety seconds is not fast by speedcubing standards (the world’s fastest cubers average well below 10 seconds per solve), but Mao said it would be a respectable time for a dabbler such as myself. Afterwards he told me that, with practice, I could probably get my average solve time down to under a minute and a half. Tyson Mao, a cofounder of the World Cube Association, came to WIRED’s offices and spent about an hour teaching me his go-to beginner’s method. Note that some of the Cypher puzzles in the game have multiple apparently correct solutions but only give rewards for one of them.Earlier this year, while putting together a video about the world’s fastest solvers of the Rubik’s Cube, I decided to devote some time to learning to solve the classic puzzle myself. As its column has tiles with blue and red dots and its row has a tile with a yellow dot, the question mark tile has to have purple dots on it. This gives us sufficient information to solve the puzzle: Because the row that the question mark tile is in has a tile with one dot and a tile with four dots and its column has a tile with two dots, the question mark tile has to have three dots on it. Because the row that tile is in already has a tile with a single dot on it, and because the column has tiles with both two and three dots on them, we know that the tile in the top right corner must have four dots we also know that the dots on this tile must be either blue or red, as it shares a column with tiles that have purple and yellow dots on them. Each tile has between one and four dots that are either blue, purple, red, or yellow.įor this puzzle, we can start with the tile in the top-right corner. Similarly, in each row and in each column no two tiles can have dots of the same color. In each row and in each column no two tiles can have the same number of dots. These puzzles require you to determine the number and color of dots that belong in the tile with the question mark on it by reducing the possible answers one tile at a time.
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