[next] [prev] [up] Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 17:14:09 -0400
~~~ [prev] [up] From: Robert Munafo <munafo@vgi.com >
~~~ ~~~ [up] Subject: Re: IQubes

Sounds like a 3-d analogue of the "15-puzzle". I have one which is called
"MagicJack", and is imported from Germany. I bought mine at Games People
Play on Mass Ave. in Cambridge MA, USA (+1.617.492.0711).

The cubies have varying numbers of sides colored silver, red, and green.
There are three different ways to "solve" it. The silver way is easiest; the
green way requires you to match up patterns on each facelet to make a
continuous loop, conceptually sinilar to Rubik's Tangle. The red solution
also requires a continuous loop, and there are symbols that must be matched
up too, making it harder to find a pattern that is valid.

I haven't scrambled mine yet, because I haven't had time to write down
the initial pattern.

On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Yerry Felix wrote:
>
> On another note, a while back Games & Puzzles Magazine reviewed a cube
> called IQube. It comprised a cage containing 26 cubelets, there are two
> variants, one with 3 * 2 colours on the individual cubelets and another
> one with 2 * 3 colours. A few days later a friend of mine brought in an
> ancient cube (about 10 years old) which was made to the same principle,
> but with only one colour on one of the faces of the cubelets inside and the other
> 5 sides are black. Would anyone know who manufactured these?
>
> -- Yerry Felix
> Games & Puzzles Magazine

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