Puzzles in public

Bigandrewgold · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:45 pm

in this pic of cobra starship

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

TomZ wrote:

Shua wrote:

TomZ wrote:

There's a Rubik's cube at 14:50 of the latest south park episode.

trakof wrote:

there was a cube in the new southpark episode. the full show can be seen at http://www.southparkspot.net/season-13/1302-the-coon/ the first cube is around 15 minutes in

>.< Shame on me.

I just saw this episode but see it's already had a mention. Here's a pic anyway.

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Last night I saw the Icelandic film, Noi Albinoi, about an albino Icelandic genius who easily solves a Rubik's Cube but fails miserably at school and in life. Quite arty and slow, but still interesting. I was surprised when the Puzzle came into the story, my wife thought I knew about it and somehow "influenced" her to choose the film, even though I wasn't even aware we had it.

Q · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:22 am

At the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Hungary, the TV station RTL had just a 5x5x5 spotlight.

Q

ihatefrauwahlgren · **Joined:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:15 pm

Here is a Rubik's Cube Sandwich! :lol:

-Grant

TBTTyler · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:54 pm

ihatefrauwahlgren wrote:

Here is a Rubik's Cube Sandwich! :lol:

-Grant

It made the front page of Digg!

juanan · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:17 pm

rubik free with toothpaste

graph of difficulty

Celia · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:59 pm

I think this is an advertising page for a party in Berlin. They use the cube as their logo. It shows the letters UVM. I couldn't stand the music enough to see if it's anywhere else.

http://www.urbanvideomixing.com/

Georges · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:09 am

National elections in Germany. Caption says like "how to vote correctly"

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Georges · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:17 am

Celia wrote:

I think this is an advertising page for a party in Berlin. They use the cube as their logo. It shows the letters UVM. I couldn't stand the music enough to see if it's anywhere else.

http://www.urbanvideomixing.com/

Here's their logo:

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Cubicle · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:28 am

http://www.jellio.com/store/cubetable.html
Cube Table. Sadly, not functional.

ejisfun · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:53 pm

Rubik's cube weather balloon? :lol:

(No, not really.)

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

Crazy cubing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O23W_TmpGv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6J0UMCym84

ihatefrauwahlgren · **Joined:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:15 pm

grigr wrote:

Crazy cubing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O23W_TmpGv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6J0UMCym84

I think this belongs in the Puzzle Solving forum. :wink:

-Grant

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:46 pm

new pepto bysmal commercial,

if you look closely, you can see a pink dodo cube on the guys desk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W21Rq_wSXYc

Unknown_soul · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:42 pm

Saw a Pyraminx in an episode of American Dragon: Jake Long

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 1700856118
12:45 and 14:24

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:42 am

found a cuber in this manga (japanese comic)

http://www.onemanga.com/Togari/39/17/

DragonCuber · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:37 pm **Location:** UK

There is a Pyraminx at 1:12 of La Roux's new song "Bulletproof" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsbpmQ9-mc)

There are also many geometrical shapes throughout the video

Justin · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:34 pm

Nice find!

Quite a lot of twisty-esque action going on there. An exploding trigonal dipyramid at 2:31 and an exploding Bedlam Cube at 2:45. Some interesting shapes on the floor in the first 10 seconds too.

MonkeyZ · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:59 pm **Location:** NJ

Hey what about the plastic surgery special on E! - 20 Best, and Worst Celebrity (Plastic) Surgeries - it has a 3x3 that turns to make faces of celebs.

Retr0 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:07 pm

ejisfun wrote:

In the theme song for Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana, they used a Rubik's Cube to show all the actors.

That has just ruined Rubik's cubes for me quite a lot. I won't be solving the 3x3 for a while..

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Ignore.

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

Tony Fisher wrote:

Bullet Proof by La Roux video. I am not certain if there are any actual puzzles in this but you'll see why I mention it-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOYufRHQSms .

DragonCuber already posted that Tony.

Alex

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:35 pm

It seems that Siva (and our puzzles) made the front page of Singapore's ""My Paper".

The online version of the paper is through AsiaOne:

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/S ... 71063.html
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/S ... 71064.html

8-)

Pantazis

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:57 pm

There was some nice art gallery (or sort of) that has opened
near my home. I was passing by buying my muesli and fruits,
and I could not help it to take some photos:

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Surreal or not, I love it!

:mrgreen:

Pantazis

Celia · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:14 pm

This is what a friend of mine found in a hotel room recently. She said the right one was apart and she solved it. I taught her that

Wasn't it cute of her that she took the picture for me?

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

Celia wrote:

This is what a friend of mine found in a hotel room recently. She said the right one was apart and she solved it. I taught her that

Wasn't it cute of her that she took the picture for me?

I have the one on the right! Not that specific one though :lol:

. It's simple to do but not easy to figure out.

Also: this

Alex

DLitwin · **Posted:** Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:05 pm

An assistant editor at WomansDay found my Stephen Colbert pictures and included it in an article about cube art:

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Famil ... works.html

Dave

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:36 pm

APJ wrote:

Celia wrote:

This is what a friend of mine found in a hotel room recently. She said the right one was apart and she solved it. I taught her that

Wasn't it cute of her that she took the picture for me?

I have the one on the right! Not that specific one though :lol:

. It's simple to do but not easy to figure out.

Also: this

Alex

around 0:43 it starts

Geo · **Joined:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:00 am **Location:** Belgium

Two originals advertising for new twistypuzzle...

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

RoboticFresca wrote:

APJ wrote:

Celia wrote:

This is what a friend of mine found in a hotel room recently. She said the right one was apart and she solved it. I taught her that

Wasn't it cute of her that she took the picture for me?

I have the one on the right! Not that specific one though :lol:

. It's simple to do but not easy to figure out.

Also: this

Alex

around 0:43 it starts

Thanks, I forgot to put that.

On my maths textbooks at school there is a picture of a colourless Alexander's star. Also, on the solids page there is a picture of a 3x3x3. Sorry I can't put up pictures.

Alex

Georges · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:37 pm

Geo wrote:

Two originals advertising for new twistypuzzle...

Beautiful early ads by Ideal! Thank you!

juanan · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:46 am

celebrities playing or trying

Sandy · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:38 pm

Check this out! A guy survives a 165 foot fall when his bungee jump goes wrong. Why am I posting this here? Check out his t-shirt when the timer shows 1:40.

Sandy

ejisfun · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:59 pm

Anyone been to the shapeways home page lately?

Done with the Rubix Cube?

Try these twisted puzzles!

New theme: 3d puzzles!

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:22 am

Well, after being shown in Straits Times breaking news (Singapore's biggest newspaper)
the Cubedron has penetrated the Spring edition of our main University magazine Uniview too!
(Or here for direct link to the 3.6 Mb PDF file, turn to page 26).

I love the title which was used "All set to puzzle the world".

(but also expect some small mistakes, for example, there are no Toy Fairs in Prague!)

:mrgreen:

Pantazis

Jared · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:46 am

Hehe, it's even got your phone number! Mind if I ring you up some time?

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:07 am

Jared wrote:

Hehe, it's even got your phone number! Mind if I ring you up some time?

Those phone numbers (mine's and Siva's) are also available through the contacts pages of the
MindStrat Puzzles website. You may call me anytime! (But I can only answer when I am not sleeping,
cycling, lecturing, fishing abalone, or playing football!)

Pantazis

Namegoeswhere · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:45 pm

The new audi commercial.
Someone should contact them how to make a transparant cubic 9x9 without a visable mechanism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Mifz6f8rw

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:32 pm

Namegoeswhere wrote:

The new audi commercial.
Someone should contact them how to make a transparant cubic 9x9 without a visable mechanism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Mifz6f8rw

They must have used magnets

Sven · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:36 pm

RoboticFresca wrote:

Namegoeswhere wrote:

The new audi commercial.
Someone should contact them how to make a transparant cubic 9x9 without a visable mechanism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Mifz6f8rw

They must have used magnets

or just 9x9x9 blocks put together and some animation work?

Celia · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:45 pm

I was given this Kliban's Cats postcard yesterday:

It sports the most unsolvable cube ever: a white-white-white corner, two yellow-yellow edge pieces (though one of them might be orange-orange), a red-red edge piece and the other three corners each have at least two same colors as well. I'm actually wondering why the center pieces are all of a different color. :wink:

Anyhow, it's nice to have friends who think of me when they see something with a Cube in/on it!

Namegoeswhere · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:45 pm

Sven wrote:

RoboticFresca wrote:

Namegoeswhere wrote:

The new audi commercial.
Someone should contact them how to make a transparant cubic 9x9 without a visable mechanism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Mifz6f8rw

They must have used magnets

or just 9x9x9 blocks put together and some animation work?

Most probably purely animation.
Also, the previous posts were constructed with an amount of sarcasm

Georges · **Posted:** Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:11 am

At last the mystery of the giant cube in Knoxville is explained.
Did it come from Hungary or didn't it, that was the question.
The answer is "no, it was made in the USA"
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/jul/0 ... und-again/

Hendrik Haak · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2000 3:29 pm **Location:** Germany

There was a article in the newspaper from Bochum about the 10th anniversary of the german puzzle museum "Puzzleum".
[img]zeitung1.jpg[/img]
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[img]zeitung5.jpg[/img]

Sven · **Posted:** Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:55 am

The picture with the v7 looks like a KO

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

Georges wrote:

At last the mystery of the giant cube in Knoxville is explained.
Did it come from Hungary or didn't it, that was the question.
The answer is "no, it was made in the USA"
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/jul/0 ... und-again/

For the curious, here's a video of it's construction and final transportation to the 1982 World's Fair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2T_8VwK-t4

I can't believe they got the colors wrong! (Y→B, O→Y, B→O) :roll:

Skarabajo.

EDIT: Actually, if we consider the color configuration of the 80s, then they still got the colors wrong, but "less wrong" (Y→O, O→Y)

TomZ · **Posted:** Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:20 am

Nice find! I loved the giant cube video.

Sven wrote:

The picture with the v7 looks like a KO

Oh comon...

katsmom · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:19 am

My daughter was playing a game on the 39 clues website and we spotted this:

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Can you?

E3cubers · **Posted:** Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:35 am

there's a rubik's cube by the panda's head.

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