For anyone that isn’t familiar with cubing, the only way a busted cube is supposed to be reassembled is in the fully solved state. Otherwise it’s practically impossible to solve if you just randomly reassemble it.
But in this case, last night I was practicing, and most of a whole side just popped loose in my hand, mid-puzzle. I knew exactly where I was with the puzzle though, carefully snapped all the pieces back in their appropriate mid-puzzle positions, and managed to successfully solve it from there 👍
Note: The photo above is a recreation of last night’s cube breakdown, same puzzle sequence though.
Don’t mind the dots, that’s my own custom mod…
I recently learned how to solve them the intended way from YouTube. I still don’t know how they solve them in seconds! I’m down to about 10 minutes lol
I still can’t quite solve a full random mix puzzle, but within the seemingly large subset of cube/dice puzzle possibilities, if I keep exact track of what puzzle steps I stack onto each other, I can solve it blindfolded or behind my back, and not necessarily in the same exact order.
Yeah, cubes aren’t meant to be done blindfolded, but there really is a subset of scrambles that lend themselves towards it…