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Rubik's Cube Jig Saw is the hardest jigsaw type puzzle on
the planet. It's hard because it requires multiple Rubik's
cubes to be solved in sequence in order to complete the
picture.
Here's how it works:
The completed image is
composed
as a print across one face of a square assemblage
of 100
individual Rubik's cubes.
Each of the cubes is then scrambled, and it's the
puzzler's
job to solve them and place them together again to
remake the original assembled image.
Ultra fiendish version features 6 different pictorial
outcomes, one for each of the cube's faces
Artist generating mosaic images from Rubik's cubes
http://www.storytre...isted-rubiks-cubes/
[Loris, Apr 13 2020]
[link]
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<Prolonged violent crashing noises/> |
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<Sound of fragments being arranged on a flat surface/> |
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That was easy. What else you got ? |
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If you break up the cubes you will create a
complete mess that adds exponential difficulty in
fitting all of the splinters and fragments back
together again. You'd be better off just admitting
that the puzzle is beyond your limited capacity,
and requesting the instructions for solving it. |
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Step 1: Image all faces of all puzzles. |
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Step 2: Apply pattern matching algorithms to individual puzzles. |
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Step 3: Dismantle* all puzzles. |
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Step 4: Arrange fragments according to plan created in Step 2. |
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Using a machine to solve a puzzle is an admission
of defeat, but that’s ok. This is a tricky one. I’m
actually not so sure that anyone could actually
solve it, if the 100 individual cubes were all mixed
up, after they were scrambled. |
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Don't forget to wipe off any fragments of Scintillating Jewelled
Scuttling Crab. |
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We have a special Iron Mallet Wiper made from the silken coats of elegant gazelle-like creatures. It's the only bit that's useful after they've been sat on. |
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//Using a machine to solve a puzzle is an admission of defeat,// |
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Well, either that, or a triumph of ingenuity. |
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//I’m actually not so sure that anyone could actually solve it, if the 100 individual cubes
were all mixed up, after they were scrambled.// |
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Assuming :
a) that the image on each face is a photo print, or at least has significant continuity over
the 9 regions of each face, and
b) that the 6 full images are reasonably distinguishable,
I don't think solving most such cubes would be very much harder than solving a standard
rubix cube, for a decent cuber. |
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Either a single cube can be fully solved with all 6 images simultaneously, or not. If the
latter, solving for a single face is easier than solving the full cube, so that's not an
impediment.
(I think it would make sense for solving one face to 'scramble' the others, since then
there would not be reduced complexity in solving the remaining images) |
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For a 100 square-piece puzzle, the image, if rectangular, must be 10x10, 5*20, 4x25, 2*50
or 100*1 (in either orientation). Again assuming some continuity over the junctions, and
also limited repetitiveness over the image, that's not a particularly hard puzzle. |
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... particularly if you have a big hammer. |
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This would need special cubes as a Rubic's cube can be dismantled. |
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What [Loris] said. Isn't there a Rubic's cube cheat as to make this trivial? A blind set of instructions that solves the cube. Solve all 100, jigsaw together what's left. |
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Fiendish would be to have the pictures the same but a couple of degrees out from each other. Just enough position change to make the picture not work. |
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I agree with Loris that if the six images are easily
distinguishable, then solving each jigsaw individually
should be relatively easy. A single face on a Rubiks
cube can be solved with few skills, and then the 10 x
10 square is a very simple jigsaw. |
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Solving each cube in advance so that all 6 jigsaws
can be made without any further cube manipulation,
is slightly trickier, but easy enough with some cube
skills and enough differences between each side. |
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The whole puzzle would be a lot trickier if the six
completed images were similar enough to each other
that one could not be sure that a single completed
side belonged to any specific image. |
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When in the process of solving the cubes, I think it will be very difficult to keep track of fragments of images instead of limited and clearly distinct areas of solid colour. |
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<Reviews imaging of fragments/> |
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//Using a machine to solve a puzzle is an admission of
defeat// |
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So where does that leave the Borg, who are by definition
partly machine, and lost as an amalgam of species without
them? |
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Maybe each cube picture needs a raised or slightly slotted texture that does not obscure the picture .This locks the side pictures into having to jigsaw to surrounding cubes. Hence each cube needs to be done completely which makes them unique. Some cube pics will be flat for a certain overall picture edges. This will confused edge framing start used by puzzlers. |
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// So where does that leave the Borg // |
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With a puzzle completed in record time, smug expressions, and an iron mallet waiting for something new to hit on. |
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