The Latch Cube

67 solved; 12 scrambled. 79 puzzles? I had no idea. Now I want one more! 😃

I thought I had only 2 more to solve—the Latch Cube and the Qubami. But I hadn't solved the 9x9x9 cube and there were 9 more in the bottom of the cabinet that are not solved yet. 

The Latch Cube. No way was I going to even attempt it without consulting my notes first. Here is what I found in the Solution Guides Pre Fall 2013:

In July 2013 I set out to see how many of my puzzles I could solve without referring to notes. The Latch Cube understandably was put off until near the end, along with a couple of the Crazy Tetrahedrons. Finally I got the Latch Cube out to give it a go. Here is what I tried and it seemed to work pretty well. I did several solves. 

1. White edges.
2. Green and Yellow black arrow edges.
3. The white arrow edges. That completes all the edges.
4. Corners. 

White edges any old way.
Other black arrow edges using EPS, or Sune, or whatever.
White arrow edges using EPS and Sune.
Corners using the basic 3x3x3 corner 3-cycle to permute them and the Sexy Move Corner Twister to orient them.

Then there is a more complex strategy that I recorded "on or before January 2012."

So it has been almost 7 years since I last solved the Latch Cube, as far as I know. Probably. Yesterday I managed to work through steps 1 and 2 and part of 3. Here it is.

The rest of the edges were not that hard. One time during the corners I messed up and thought I had lost a lot of progress, but I was able to figure it out without too much trouble. Thank You Jesus! Then I was very careful finishing up the corners.