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Rubik’s Mirror Blocks Puzzle: No colors here to help you
Like the Rubik's Cube needed to get any harder, right? The Rubik’s Mirror Blocks Puzzle — also known as Hidetoshi Takeji's Bump Cube — presents a challenge based on geometry rather than color sequences. It's your job to order 27 blocks of nine different sizes into a tidy cube shape. I couldn't even solve the original Rubik's Cube, and now with this one I can't take off the stickers to cheat. If you want one, you'll probably have to import it as it's straight out of Japan. It sells for about 20 bucks.
Click Continue to check out a video of a dude solving the Bump Cube in under a minute. (Not by me, but you probably already guessed that much.)
Amazon JP, via Everything Below $29.99
By MacBeth at 9:50 AM ON 10/03/08
as recently shown on Mythbusters this was mostly likely done in reverse. You can see the little jump after he spends half the video trying to open the package.
By Matij at 9:59 AM ON 10/09/08
I'm an avid Rubik's Cube solver, and I actually think that the methods for solving this cube are almost exactly the same for solving the regular Rubik's Cube.
Think about it, on the original Rubik's Cube you had colored stickers to give you directions, and the original Rubik's Cube Algorithims are used to flip those blocks to their appropriate position.
So for the Mirror Cube (or called the 'bump' cube) instead of having colored stickers to guide you, you have different sized blocks, all you need to do is memorize which sized block goes with it's other corresponding pieces.
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I'm an avid Rubik's Cube solver, and I actually think that the methods for solving this cube are almost exactly the...More »