Lola by Todd Clark for September 12, 2023

Cecil is, at the very least, inventive.

I had a knock off cube and could remove and reapply the colored stickers. I never accomplished it on my own.

He probably got that idea from the aliens who abducted him.

I never thought of that.

I knew a guy whose specialty in mathematics was permutations. The first time he was given a Rubik’s cube (mixed up), he looked it over, then with a few quick rotations “solved” it. The second time he was handed one, he said, “I already know how to do this,” and then he pulled it apart and put it back together… “solved”.

We used screwdrivers and just snapped it back together.

I got one down to the very last step and stopped. It’s still in my tool box, unsolved.

Refinished, actually.

Maybe the aliens finished it for him

I did it how I usually solve puzzles; took it apart & put it back right.

If you want to really mess some one up, take one of the edge pieces out and flip it over, put it back in and then mix the cube up. It will be impossible to solve without undoing what you did…

I like to think I have a life with better things to do…(okay okay…I’m jealous!)

The only way I could solve it was to take it apart and then put it back together.

Best I could ever do was to finish two-thirds of it. But I still have my copy of The Simple Solution to Rubik’s Cube by James G. Nourse, purchased in 1981 for $1.95. Of course I’m sure there are now many solutions available on the internet, but back then, for me at least, this was the book (actually more of a booklet).