Message #1494

From: schuma <mananself@gmail.com>
Subject: [MC4D] Re: MagicTile Extension in Superliminal/Wiki
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:13:01 -0000

Audrey, you are truly amazing. Have you solved the related puzzle: M12?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/2008-07/puzzles/m12.html

I read the article about these two puzzles on Scientific American in 2008. At that time I didn’t even know how to solve a 2x2x2. Today I still have no idea and no intuition about how to solve them. They are too weird to me. By the way, Oskar van Deventer has made a physical M12 puzzle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZcYvU0sLY

Nan

— In 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com, "Andrey" <andreyastrelin@…> wrote:
>
> Solved :)
> Took about two hours.
>
> Andrey
>
> — In 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com, Melinda Green <melinda@> wrote:
> >
> > I like Andrey’s and Roice’s opinions on missing log files. "B.L." is a
> > very clever notation. It also seems like a term with applications that
> > extend beyond our needs.
> >
> > Andrey talks about very hard puzzles, so I’m going to share a new one
> > that I think is also very hard. You can find it here
> > <http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/2008-07/puzzles/m24.html>.
> > Be sure to notice the "Help" button for instructions and hints. It
> > doesn’t support log files but it *does* display history that you can
> > copy. It does support macros however. I’ve never solved it but let’s see
> > who here can validly claim to have solved it first. Ready.., set…,
> > GO! :-)
> >
> > -Melinda
> >