80s brain teaser.

[exosteve]

I've been messing about with this.
Who can do one?
That's as far as I can get.
work I progress.
its wicked therapy when the misses is watching TV.

[exosteve]

Even fluked the cross at the bottom all in the right places.
Four corners to go

[jonela]

Put it under the wheel of your truck and run over it,you will feel a great sense of achievement

[rustic]

When you think about it, there are only two basic moves that you need to learn.
how to get a square from anywhere on the cube, to either a central point on one face, or to one corner of one face.
Years ago I had instructions to do just that, but to be honest, if you give the top a 45 degree twist, and the bottom row a 45 degree twist, and here is the clever part...

Take a tea spoon and insert it into the gap, and twist... and it all comes apart, and you can reassemle it in half a minute.

[jims-terrano]

Jeez back in 1982 I used to be able to do the cube. Wish I could still remember how to do it.

[elty001]

Or just peel the stickers off and stick them where you need them

[Lazy-Ferret]

Originally Posted by jims-terrano

Jeez back in 1982 I used to be able to do the cube. Wish I could still remember how to do it.

It's strange how you can forget... It's not like riding a Bike then..

I was never able to do it, but my little brother was a real wiz. My mum found one of the old cubes at Christmas, and was playing around with it. She asked if one of us would solve it for her, and my brother was the same as you, and said he had forgotten how to do it now.

[exosteve]

Never done one myself. Might stay that.way

[rustic]

Originally Posted by exosteve

Never done one myself. Might stay that.way

It was one of those things that you picked up in the evening, and thought...
just another try..

oh just another...

and another...

Wow is that the time...?

I'm up for work in three hours...

The only answer was to look at the solution, then try it, and suddenly you loose all interest in it, and it remains at the back of a drawer, and you then get a good nights sleep.

The other thing, it had no batteries, but made a horrible squeak that drove others mad. A squirt of Mr sheen... bliss.

[rustic]

I am just thinking... is solving the Rubik cube any more difficult than replacing an oil filter on a 2.7 td ?

Both require a strong wrist, perseverance, and once learnt, easier to do the next time...

[bry]

Used to be able to solve it,in under 4 minutes. But that was a long time a go.Those brain cells no longer exist.

[johnb5177]

Originally Posted by exosteve

Never done one myself. Might stay that.way

+1..........