Saturday, November 10, 2018

Qubami Sticker Mod

Today I transformed a Stickerless colored plastic cube into a Qubami. More specifically, into my Qubami. Years ago I bought a Qubami from Kelvin Stott. It was a unique puzzle that had 3 colors, 3 symbols, and was one of a kind. You could solve it by color, solve it by symbol, or solve it with 3 colors and 3 symbols in every row and every column on every side. I read today that it could also be solved with every color on every row and column, and every symbol on every row and column. My original Qubami story.

Some time between then and now our house was broken into and some of my puzzles were stolen, including the Qubami. I haven't thought much about it since. I don't know what got me to thinking about it this morning, but I decided to find a picture of my old Qubami if I could. Found it in my Google Photos page.

I have some cube stickers in my desk that I have had for years. I have a Sharpie pen. I picked out 3 colors, put the symbols on them, and applied them to one of the 20 $2.25 cubes that I bought at speedcubeshop.com a few months ago. First I thoroughly scrambled the cube so the stickerless cube solution would not be a solution to the Qubami stickers. It is not as pretty as the original puzzle, but it works! I have my Qubami back.

 

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Dobrá Voda Forest

The 7 of us recently went on a walk to and through the local forest. It was great! Well, it was great in spite of the ticks or whatever those little bugs we got were. They looked kind of like ticks but none of them attached so I'm not sure. We got them all off while they were still crawling around.

















Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Cubing With The CZ Kiddos

All three kiddos have joined in the cubing fun this summer. I remember when I taught Roark how to solve a cube and Roriana had fun exploring on her own with patterns. Here I am teaching 7-year old Annie how to solve the cube and Alex and David enjoy exploring patterns. Alex is also getting into solving a little as he has learned UFDG, which I will explain shortly. Even David can put a short scramble on the cube and get it back to solved.

I have made a page about our cubing and included it in the menu bar. Go to page.


Monday, July 2, 2018

Trees, Rocks, and a Park

We have been here a little over a week now. A couple days ago I left the house for the first time. The kiddos wanted to take me on a walk to the climbing tree.



Eventually we made our way to the rocks nearby.




After playing on the rocks we went back to the trees where we were greeted by a friendly little dog. We also ran around in the field and saw a fun tree.


Can you see the child in the tree in the picture above?







Can you see the child in the tree in the picture above?

Finally we walked to the park.