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[Sasuntsi Davit]

[Unsolved?] #244 - Silver - [Star Set] - Syzygy Cube

[appleTRON]

Gulp.

Good freakin' luck ... I'll see you guys on the other side of this one.

[spugmeistress]

i've got these letters as a transcription,

(top left face l-r)
NET
RZA
AED
(top right face l-r)
PAB
PYO
NBT
(lower face top right - bottom left)
NOW
AYE
LED
(upper face bottom left-top right)
BAA
AYE
SEE
(bottom left face l-r)
WES
ESE
TDS
(bottom right face l-r)
TAP
OGE
TUK

although since the key to solving the rubiks cube seems to be in matching up the orientation of the letters, this may not be much help! so bear in mind the N's could be Z's (although on the top left face the N in NET looks different to the Z in RZA, which would be a very stumpy N) and the M's could be W's (damn stupid font, i chose W cos i dont think Ms should have diagonal 'bookend' lines, but thats just me, some fonts do do Ms that way) and i suppose the U could be a C but itd be a very funny shaped one if it was

i also tweaked the contrast on the bottom left face cos i couldnt see the letters properly on the scan, still not great but hope it helps

there's a list of 3 letter words here
and just in case thats not exhaustive, another one here but we can rule out any words containing the letters F, H, I, J, Q, V or X cos as far as i can see, we dont have any on our cube.

rach =)

[BrianEnigma]

Okay, so what if you think laterally back to the time when you had a Rubik's Cube as a kid and you turned one of the faces part-way around and pried off the corner piece, causing all of the rest of the pieces to come apart. I know you did this--whether it was because you wanted to figure out how it worked or because you were stuck and wanted to just take it apart and put it back together with the correct colors, I'm sure you did it.

Anyway, what if we did something like that with this cube? If I remember correctly, there are a couple of ways to [randomly] reassemble the [color] cube that made it impossible to solve. Likewise, there may be multiple ways to reassemble a torn-apart cube, only one of which is "real," but the orientation of the letters should help that situation quite a lot.

So, I guess I should try to find 27 sugar cubes and a marker.

[oliverkeers13]

It gives you an excuse to dig out your old rubiks cube, and scribble on it!

[SteveC]

Processes of elimination

[bearq]

SteveC said

[bearq]

BriEnigma said:

[bearq]

I think i've got it:

[cassandra]

Step was working with a Rubik's cube last night - but that looks good! Though having 'ano' twice goes against my puzzle instincts.

Though, I'm curious as to how these answers are going to all be entered into the leaderboard thing or what have you...

[Tomby]

That's what I got, except it is

[SteveC]

[oliverkeers13]

THe background of the card looks odd, is it a magic eye maybe?

[NovacaineX]

Wow! That was (maybe) solved much faster than I'd imagined.

Not sure if this helps now, but if any of you programmers want to check that answer you might be able to modify this code to help.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rubiks/

I have no programming skills whatsoever, so I'm not sure how hard it'd be, but I figured I'd throw it out there for you guys.

[cassandra]

background looks like cubes.

btw, I believe it is azo.