Puzzling Asked on June 4, 2021
This is an image of a Rubik’s Cube I found in the Men’s Toilets during the first day of a big Scrabble tournament.
This position is impossible for the standard Rubik’s Cube (White/Red/Blue opposite Yellow/Orange/Green respectively) for any number of reasons.
Is this position legal for at least one non-standard Rubik’s Cube? (i.e. with different permutation of White/Red/Blue/Yellow/Orange/Green)?
Oo, this is a good one. Let's do some analysis:
We can see the centres of three sides, and the relative positions of the centres cannot be changed, so we know that when/if this cube is solved, the blue side will be adjacent to green and orange.
We can also see a blue-white edge piece, and a blue-yellow edge piece as well. This means that as long as the cube has a solved state,
Then, we can take note of the following facts about solved Rubik's cubes in general:
It follows from these two facts that if we
then we can uniquely place that corner piece on the solved cube.
Doing so, and remembering what we learned about red above, we notice that
Because of this,
Correct answer by Bass on June 4, 2021
I'm new here, and I might be wrong, but...
Can it really be that easy?
Answered by the-baby-is-you on June 4, 2021
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