We recently got a new patio swing. Marae bought a black sheet and covered some thick foam to make the swing more comfortable. Here we see a very scrambled Moyu Fisher Time Wheel chillin' on the patio swing. And now I am chillin' on the swing with the puzzle on this pleasantly warm summer afternoon.
Vocabulary (referring to the picture above)
The piece with 3 colors on it is an Outer Edge, seeing as this is a Fisher Cube.
The white piece adjacent to the Outer Edge is an Inner Edge.
The big piece with 2 colors on it is an Outer Corner.
The little white piece adjacent to the Outer Corner is an Inner Corner.
The green piece with 1 color in the middle of the green face is a Middle Layer Edge.
The blue and orange pieces in the photo are Middle Layer Inner Edges.
The green and red piece at the center of the green/red circle is a Middle Layer Center.
The green and red piece above the green red Center is an Inner Edge.
The green and red pieces next to it are Inner Corners.
Strategy
- Hold the puzzle with the white center on bottom.
- Pair up a white Outer Edge with a white Inner Edge and take it home. Repeat for all 4 white edges.
- Build a 3-piece Corner-Edge Pair from a white Outer Corner, a white Inner Corner, and the corresponding Middle Layer Edge. Take it home. Repeat for all 4 Corner-Edge Pairs. Of course the Corner can be built and paired up with the Edge using URD as it is solved.
- Pair up all the Yellow Inner and Outer pieces.
- Orient the yellow Edges. There may be an odd number that need to flip because one of the the Middle Layer Edges may be flipped.
- Permute the yellow Edges.
- Permute the yellow Corners.
- Orient the yellow Corners.
- Orient the Middle Layer Centers. At this point it will look something like
- Build blocks consisting of one 2-color Inner Edge and its 2 adjacent Inner Corners. In order to do this it may be necessary to store some of them on top and/or bottom. Also, although I'm not sure if it is avoidable or not, some of the Centers may get twisted.
- Use The Move to move all of the blocks into place.
- Orient Centers.
- Permute Inner Edges.
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