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-> Two of us put the puzzle together in a couple of hours.  But the
-> teaser on the box implies that we were supposed to solve it in a more
-> deductive way.  Two questions that we never figured out are:
->
-> How can you predict the orientation of the corner jewels?
-> Do the white jewels fall randomly and do they introduce randomness or
-> can their appearance and behavior be predicted?
->
-> Don Libes          libes@cme.nist.gov      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes

Is this an official "Rubik's" product? I am an avid collector of
Rubik's puzzles and I've never heard of Rubik's Royal Brain Tease.

While I'm mentioning Rubik I would like to offer the opinion that
everything with the Rubik name on it from Matchbox which appeared
after Rubik's Clock was crap. Specifically Rubik's Tangle in it's
4 variations, Rubik's Dice, and Rubik's Triamid. The Triamid puzzle
is nothing more than Lego with some edge constraints. I really
doubt Rubik himself produced these items. If you study the history
of the development of Rubik's Cube you will find Rubik put a lot
of work into making the cube as polished as possible.

A small aside, recently I bravely took apart my Square-1 (I have two)
and a warning... it's damn hard to reassemble!

Anyone interested in puzzles like the cube, square-1, and other
mechanical brain teasers may want to check out the Feb. 1993
issue of Games magazine. In it is an ad for the Domain of the
Cube newsletter, one of the last bastions of new material on
combinatorial puzzles like Rubik's Cube.

Mark Longridge
Email: mark.longridge@canrem.com

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