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Originally Posted by Dad2leia
To solve mine, I usually figured outr a way to literally take the cubes out of it, then press fit them back together in the proper sequence.
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If anyone is interested, that's actually a common way to "cheat" your way to the solution. All you need to do is take a Rubik's cube and rotate the top layer so that it's at a 45 degree angle in conjuction with the rest of the cube (i.e. you're doing half of one 90 degree rotation). Then you need to find a flathead screw driver or something and stick it under the middle cube of that twisted top layer. Pop off the middle cube... after you do that, you can disassemble the rest of the cube pretty simply by just pulling them out individually.
This DOES NOT break the cube! Once you have all the little cubes disassembled, go to work sticking them back into place on the frame. Once you take apart a Rubik's cube, all you're left with is a little black frame (that forms the center of the cube) with little arms that connect to all the center squares (the centers can't be disassembled). Just by looking at the cubes, you'll be able to see how they fit back into place.
However, the only downside to this is that it takes much longer than actually just learning to solve the cube, lol. Plus, it's a lot more work, and it's less impressive if you're doing it in front of a group of people. But to each his own.
