what am I doing wrong!!

[Ghost Post]

I can't take this anymore!! I cant solve a fricking eight-piece-in-a-thing
-that-has-room-for-nine-pieces-but-can-only-move-one-piece-at-a-time-puzzle!!!!AArgh!!

[Courk]

umm... depending on which one it is...

I used to have a calc like that. It was solid colors, but I found it easier to get the bottom row in first, then the second to last, etc. It hasn't seemed to work on the ones that have pics yet... but I also have no will power

If it was randomly laid out there may not be a solution.

[HyToFry]

take them out, and put them back in.

Note: this trick works great for rubiks cubes as well.

[Mercuria]

i do that for rubiks cubes, but only for the last row...

slidey puzzles are slightly easier... or maybe i've just had more practice (does anybody remember the game "heaven and earth"?)

[HyToFry]

hehe I was kidding about the slidey puzzle.

I've only taken a cube apart once. I, like you, can get those bottom two rows FAST, but that top one is a beast. I usually go to an online bot that maps it out for me.

[Mercuria]

hehe...

well, i have three choices... find the sheet with the solutions, get a dinner knife, or look it up online. if i'm messing with the cube, i'm not online. now... i know where a knife is, but i don't know where the little booklet is ;p

[CzarJ]

There's some method for doing it in less than 70 moves or something, no matter how it started. It's too confusing for me though.

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[Courk]

Step 1: Peel off stickers.
Step 2: Put stickers back on.

Do I get to go in Guiness now?

[Mercuria]

uuh... only if you can peel the stickers without flaking off the pigment... or ruining the adhesive...

[Chuck]

Dip the whole cube in a bucket of paint. 5 seconds, tops.

[mithrandir]

i used to be able to do a rubik's cube pretty fast. a few minutes, maybe. just memorized a few patterns. i've forgotten now tho.

[Ghost Post]

thats pretty sad mith, no offense

[Handsome Dan]

Yeah, I agree. I wish I could figure out my mini-cube. I got it for 45 tickets at a ticket arcade. I got annoyed at it, so i threw it against a wall, and reconstructed it so it looked solved. (this turned out to be far more fun than pretending I could solve it w/o cheating)

[HyToFry]

mith: buy a cube, and play. It all comes back to you REAL fast. [=

[Qball]

mith ... i'm a 35 yo puzzle-holic.

I bartend a couple nights a week, and on Monday nite brought in my cube. I was making people give me a buck if I could solve it in under 3 minutes. I usually did it under two minutes. I made a killing!

Hey it was a slow nite!

[PuzzleProdigy]

52 moves is the maximum movews for any position, according to my book. I still can't solve that [CzarJ edited] thing, even with a solution book.

[Ghost Post]

i usually peel of the stickers and stick them on the right places, much simpler