Puzzles in public

Neix · **Joined:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:40 am

found this yesterday in my chemistry book while learning about mass/volume/measurements and stuff.. which is so easy because i alrdy know alot about it.. and i came across this in the text book. i was like, woot! blue DIY 10x10 non stickered,"**wacks out google phone**" pic pic pic snap snap! haha

enjoy

Mike · **Joined:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:55 pm **Location:** U.S.

sorry, i forgot to post the video lol, here it is go to 1:10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teylbbR0 ... -HM-rev-rn

Neix · **Joined:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:40 am

Arcrobe wrote:

sorry, i forgot to post the video lol, here it is go to 1:10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teylbbR0 ... -HM-rev-rn

rofl haha that animation is soo cool haha

and im sure uve all seen this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsulZKXFxK8 its all over the vid

Mike · **Joined:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:55 pm **Location:** U.S.

Neix wrote:

Arcrobe wrote:

sorry, i forgot to post the video lol, here it is go to 1:10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teylbbR0 ... -HM-rev-rn

rofl haha that animation is soo cool haha

and im sure uve all seen this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsulZKXFxK8 its all over the vid

lol, great use of the cube

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:19 am

http://www.umop.com/rps101/rps101chart.html (check the fun facts in the bottom left corner)

Scott Bedard · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:37 am

If anyone watched The Daily Show last night you'll see a very long and funny bit about the Rubik's Cube. I'll try to find a video clip for you guys

ndgamer4life · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:23 pm

i just saw that and i came to post, but i see you beat me to it, i cant find any video or stills of it yet though...

Jared · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:30 am

Hmm, I'll try to catch the rerun tonight. Or was it a rerun last night?

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

Scott Bedard wrote:

If anyone watched The Daily Show last night you'll see a very long and funny bit about the Rubik's Cube. I'll try to find a video clip for you guys

Here it is: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=217006&title=intro-neil-degrasse-tysons&byDate=true

Enjoy!
-Grant

Sjoerd · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:03 pm

I was watching the movie Good Will Hunting, and after about 25-35 minutes into the movie, right after Will solves a problem with the professor, you see the assistant of the professor sitting by a desk, an on the desk is a paper thing shaped and colored exactly like an Alexanders star.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwVdc7E ... re=related
You can see it at the very end of the video on the left.

Neix · **Joined:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:40 am

Sjoerd wrote:

I was watching the movie Good Will Hunting, and after about 25-35 minutes into the movie, right after Will solves a problem with the professor, you see the assistant of the professor sitting by a desk, an on the desk is a paper thing shaped and colored exactly like an Alexanders star.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwVdc7E ... re=related
You can see it at the very end of the video on the left.

haha siiiick find!! an alexander star, looks exactly like it bro, i think it probably is one.. gj

TomZ · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:50 pm

Neix wrote:

Sjoerd wrote:

I was watching the movie Good Will Hunting, and after about 25-35 minutes into the movie, right after Will solves a problem with the professor, you see the assistant of the professor sitting by a desk, an on the desk is a paper thing shaped and colored exactly like an Alexanders star.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwVdc7E ... re=related
You can see it at the very end of the video on the left.

haha siiiick find!! an alexander star, looks exactly like it bro, i think it probably is one.. gj

No, I don't think it is a Alex Star. I think it is just a paper model of the polyhedron (with a quite complex name) that the star is based on. It doesn't look at all to me like a alexander's star, as I'm missing black plastic and stickers. And also it is the wrong size.

Quite a funny find though. You need to be a really quick thinker to notice hat.

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:58 pm

TomZ wrote:

I think it is just a paper model of the polyhedron (with a quite complex name) that the star is based on.

For once, the name is actually quite simple: Great Dodecahedron.

Neix · **Joined:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:40 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0186hRd ... re=channel

look around 2:51-2:58

Jeffery Mewtamer · **Joined:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:18 am

Since Flash is completely broken on my system, would someone mind taking screen shots from the recently posted YouTube videos showing the noted puzzles?

cube addict · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:13 pm

Sjoerd wrote:

I was watching the movie Good Will Hunting, and after about 25-35 minutes into the movie, right after Will solves a problem with the professor, you see the assistant of the professor sitting by a desk, an on the desk is a paper thing shaped and colored exactly like an Alexanders star.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwVdc7E ... re=related
You can see it at the very end of the video on the left.

One of my best friends has that at his house and every sinple time I go over there i get faked out.

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

many pictures from Russian rubiks-forum
http://rubiks.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=366
http://rubiks.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=153
Enjoy

Neix · **Joined:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:40 am

grigr wrote:

many pictures from Russian rubiks-forum
http://rubiks.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=366
http://rubiks.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=153
Enjoy

wow great find, many amazing pictures

Thien · **Joined:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:16 am

A video off one of the posts on the Russian forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQeOM4Yc ... r_embedded

Neix · **Joined:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:40 am

Thien wrote:

A video off one of the posts on the Russian forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQeOM4Yc ... r_embedded

wow biggest cube in the world now? wooow thats an awsome find

JasperJ · **Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:34 am

At the end of the first Russian thread, they seem to have posted much of the early parts of *this* thread

And did I just see Will Smith sitting there with a solved cube and a timer saying 0:55? Did *he* do it, or was he the audience, baffled by the expert's quick time?

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

Sandy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:57 pm

Found another "Rubik's Cubicle" comic in the newspaper today.

Sandy

ndgamer4life · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:23 pm

i havnt checked to see if this one has been shown yet but this is from the popular daily webcomic cyanide and happiness ...

Cubicle · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:33 am

I don't know if anyone watches Zero Punctuation, but basically what it is is video game reviews with little animated videos.

Anyways, any time he mentions the word "puzzle" then usually there is a picture of a rubik's cube. In this particular video he actually mentions "Rubik's Cube".

See the video for more details.

Shua · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:46 am

Cubicle wrote:

I don't know if anyone watches Zero Punctuation, but basically what it is is video game reviews with little animated videos.

Anyways, any time he mentions the word "puzzle" then usually there is a picture of a rubik's cube. In this particular video he actually mentions "Rubik's Cube".

See the video for more details.

Oh God that made me laugh!
"It's like trying to solve Rubik's cube with your elbows"

Alex · **Joined:** Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:36 am **Location:** Europe

Charlie Epps from Numb3rs has a cube on his desk in episode 15 of season 5 (about 30' into the show). Some of the stickers have been peeled. What a cheater!

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ejisfun · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:03 pm

Alex wrote:

Charlie Epps from Numb3rs has a cube on his desk in episode 15 of season 5 (about 30' into the show). Some of the stickers have been peeled. What a cheater!

For some reason, I'm pretty sure he would be able to figure it out by himself.

SaiyanKirby · **Joined:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:18 pm **Location:** MA, USA

I was looking at some videos of some cool things you can do with MS Paint (someone made the Mona Lisa in 3 hours! O.o) and I came across this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvUtd23p ... re=related
"What you can do with cubes in MS Paint"

philliesrule3690 · **Joined:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:25 am

im pretty sure jessica simpson did a music video where she was like sitting on a rubik's cube.

Shua · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:05 pm

Rubik's cube is offhandedly mentioned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-VxoMbo24

SaiyanKirby · **Joined:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:18 pm **Location:** MA, USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJr2BiCT ... bscription
There's a quick scene of a Rubik's Cube solving itself through stopmotion.

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

Hello,

There is a Rubik's key-chain in the trailer for the upcoming spy movie "Duplicity".

It's a simple configuration generated with L R' B2 F (starting with F=red and U=yellow) and solved with F' B2 R L'. I wonder if it is an important plot element...

See http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/duplicity/ for the whole trailer in a variety of sizes.

Skarabajo.

Thien · **Joined:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:16 am

I was watching TV and a Time Warner commercial popped on. It was like "Don't think cable is a puzzle" and it had a Rubik's Cube with different cable pictures on sides and its just spinning and being solved.

Shua · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:44 pm

Thien wrote:

I was watching TV and a Time Warner commercial popped on. It was like "Don't think cable is a puzzle" and it had a Rubik's Cube with different cable pictures on sides and its just spinning and being solved.

I've seen that one. I wanted to post it but I couldn't provide a vid.

LewAshby · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:31 am

There was what looks to be a Void Cube in United States of Tara (Season 1 Episode 6) on the coffee table of the boss's apartment of Kate (next to the blue glass).

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:36 am

I saw this picture and immediately thought of 9x9 stickers... not so sure this applies to this thread, but it's the best thread I could find

Bigandrewgold · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:30 pm

Danny Devitt wrote:

I saw this picture and immediately thought of 9x9 stickers... not so sure this applies to this thread, but it's the best thread I could find

that is really funny

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:40 pm

There's a Rubik's cube on chief wiggum's desk in the episode "The Great Louse Detective"

SaiyanKirby · **Joined:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:18 pm **Location:** MA, USA

The Onion: "Giant Crabs post no threat"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp586AE

Near the end of the video, they comment saying one of the baby crabs solved a Rubik's Cube that was left on a table. I thought it was funny that I found this video as soon as I clicked off of TwistyPuzzles.

darryl · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:41 pm

SaiyanKirby wrote:

The Onion: "Giant Crabs post no threat"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp586AE

Near the end of the video, they comment saying one of the baby crabs solved a Rubik's Cube that was left on a table. I thought it was funny that I found this video as soon as I clicked off of TwistyPuzzles.

I was just gonna post it, but you beat me to it. Pretty funny video too.

-d

Caphits · **Posted:** Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:16 pm

New shirt form J!NX:

PaulWozniak · **Joined:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:02 pm

Call me crazy or OCD but JEEZ look at the simple mistakes in the mech design on that shirt. All the blue corners are still in place, so the one lying next to the cube is what, an extra? And the edge piece is stickered as if it were a corner. That's a great shirt and I like the design, but they haven't paid attention to the details and it killed it for me.

eye2eye · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:23 pm

PaulWozniak wrote:

Call me crazy or OCD but JEEZ look at the simple mistakes in the mech design on that shirt. All the blue corners are still in place, so the one lying next to the cube is what, an extra? And the edge piece is stickered as if it were a corner. That's a great shirt and I like the design, but they haven't paid attention to the details and it killed it for me.

The core looks wrong to me like there al cubies around a cube

Caphits · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:46 pm

It wouldnt suprise me if they did that on purpose, to avoid any problems with Rubik's. Probably not though... :roll:

Rubik's would say, "Hey give us money for using our cube on your shirt!" And they would reply, "No, its not your cube, look at the mechanism, its completely ridiculous. I mean c'mon, it has 9 corners. That sir is obviously not a cube, therefore, it cannot be a Rubik's Cube" :lol:

SaiyanKirby · **Joined:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:18 pm **Location:** MA, USA

I was going to say something about the corner, until I noticed the edge pieces with the sticker on the SIDE.

Then I realized they didn't take the shirt seriously.

trakof · **Joined:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:44 am

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

Caphits · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:28 pm

It is a cube of chaos, that can destroy the world in 1 second. Lol.

Ill take a sprite.

TomZ · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:35 pm

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

Shua · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:38 pm

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

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