Dr Nick

Hi Everybody!

For those who remember the craze (nearly 30 years ago - OMG!!) there were some variants on the original 3X3 cube.

There was the 4X4 which was much more difficult and which I have.

There was also a 5X5 and also a dodecahedron which I didn't have enough pocket money for at the time but both of which I have been looking for ever since.

Yesterday I saw a new 5X5 cube in a department store in Ukraine but its 32 quid! I can't believe it, in a country where a beer costs 25p.

Its hard to justify this sort of cash for a toy, particularly when I have a theory that the 5X5 is actually almost as easy as the 3X3. However, if its really difficult and guaranteed to keep me irritable and muttering for months I will have to buy it.

Does anyone on here have had the 5X5 and is it much harder?

Information leading the discover of a new dodecahedron would also be welcome.

Cheers

RoShamBo

iTrader: (1)

Ah the Rubik Cube......takes me back.
I could do it in under 30 seconds in my day - not sure I can remember half the moves now though !

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

I had a Rubik ball and my sister had a Rubik Snake had hours of amusement with both of them, I could never do the cube without taking it apart.

Markus

Cube is actually very easy to solve if you learn a few (think it's about eight total, though some are simply the reverse of others) sequences. There is a great two part youtube vid that I followed.

Can't remember all the sequences now though, will have to dig out the cube and give it another play.

TelBoy

Don't know if this falls into the "rarity" bracket, but i used to have a hexagonal cube. It wasn't official Rubik, but it was slightly harder than the original. It was still a 3x3 matrix, but the edges had been sawn (!) off so that looking from the top, it was a hexagon. Hard to describe, but a good variation on the theme.

Under 30 seconds for an original Rubik is excellent, RoShamBo. Best i ever managed was 38.

EddScott

There is a clear sequence of how to complete a rubic cube so it just boils down to how fast you can do it. Once you know the sequence I think some of the fun is lost.

TelBoy

Indeed, Ed. Like many people i'm sure, i never actually worked out what i needed to do do solve the harder things like getting the final corners correct, i just learned the formula. If it had been a Saw game and i'd been given a month to solve it without any outside help or lose my arms, i'd probably be typing with a stick held in my mouth by now

PaulC72

Damn I used to have to remove all the stickers and put them in the correct places.

zeuss

iTrader: (2)

haha remember my brother pulling the stickers off the rubiks cube one morning when we was on holiday in a caravan haha he thought my parents wouldnt notice

dpb

I was under 30 seconds - my what a waste of time

Funkii Munkii

Rubiks 360



His latest toy, read about it online some time back, it just doesn't have the same charisma of the original cube.

Dr Nick

That new one doesn't appeal to me either though I have yet to see it in the flesh.

I bet he remembered to patent it properly this time though!

john_s

iTrader: (1)

Popping them apart and reassembling them completed was quicker than doing the stickers.

SirFozzalot

I used to have Rubik's Clock



and Rubik's magic.



Probably still have them in a box in the loft somewhere.