Puzzles in public

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

DLitwin wrote:

PaulWozniak wrote:

If he has a Qubami, doesn't that mean he's very likely a TP member? Reveal yourself mystery news program puzzle fanatic!

Hmmmm... Good point. This collection picture looks a lot like the shelf of cubes, and has the same Mac monitor. Perhaps it is this member?

Dave

Hahahahaha, you sneak!

elijah · **Joined:** Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:55 am **Location:** WA, USA

why do they say David Louie instead of David Litwin?

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:26 am

LOL!!!!

And I was wondering how come so many puzzles are all over the place!!!

:lol:

Pantazis

DLitwin · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:09 am

katsmom wrote:

:lol: for an IT kind of guy, your desk is very neat! The first one I have ever seen that looks like that! I mean you can actually SEE desk! Your wife must be mighty proud of you. :lol:

Well, that is my work desk after I moved 600 or so mini-cubes into lower level of the cube shelf you see. As for my wife being proud of my home desk, well, not so much when it looks like this:

(Note: The Spiderman sunglasses and nightlight by the drill are my son's. My desk is also the general repair area).

elijah wrote:

why do they say David Louie instead of David Litwin?

David Louie is the name of the reporter, and the video clip they used was just back ground as he finished up his piece. Just coincidence it sounds like my name when they show my clip

And with that I will tell myself: "Let's get back on topic, Dave".

Dave

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:55 am

Found these pages in a manga called Yostubato

There are a few more pages with the cube in it.
http://www.onemanga.com/Yotsubato/50/14/
If you wanna see them from there

TheCube · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:16 pm

in the new American Dad episode, starting at 2:34 in the bottom left corner, a scrambled 5x5 cube is visible

http://www.hulu.com/watch/126743/americ ... -the-bling

Juozas Granskas · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:43 am

National TV of Lithuania let me to say a few words about Rubiks cube. For some time link to the video is available on the front page http://www.lrt.lt/ . You can find it looking for Rubiks cube picture.

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

TheCube wrote:

in the new American Dad episode, starting at 2:34 in the bottom left corner, a scrambled 5x5 cube is visible

http://www.hulu.com/watch/126743/americ ... -the-bling

I can't watch it because I live in Englandland. Could you post a screenshot?

Alex

theVDude · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:11 pm

Click for fullsize, but there it is.

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:03 pm

Juozas Granskas wrote:

National TV of Lithuania let me to say a few words about Rubiks cube. For some time link to the video is available on the front page http://www.lrt.lt/ . You can find it looking for Rubiks cube picture.

Nice one Juozas!!! And I really want those three puzzles from your collection!!!

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Pantazis

olz · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:23 pm

kastellorizo wrote:

Juozas Granskas wrote:

National TV of Lithuania let me to say a few words about Rubiks cube. For some time link to the video is available on the front page http://www.lrt.lt/ . You can find it looking for Rubiks cube picture.

Nice one Juozas!!! And I really want those three puzzles from your collection!!!

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Pantazis

I've allways wonderd were that 1x2x3 that's on the museum came from.
but now I know

Georges · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:23 pm

kastellorizo wrote:

Nice one Juozas!!! And I really want those three puzzles from your collection!!!

Pantazis

I am satisfied to have the one on your second shot !

Oops, I would be satisfied to have the one on your second shot !

Olivér Nagy · **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:04 pm

These pictures are from the Hungarian Lidl's web page:
http://www.lidl.hu/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_hu/hs.xsl/index.htm

These are all retro Hungarian products.

greeneye · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:56 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET66oPXlCJU&feature=sub

rubik's cube illusion

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

http://vimeo.com/6782769

In the background there is a 3x3x3.......or is there? Watch all the way through to find out. :wink:

Alex

theVDude · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:44 am

APJ wrote:

http://vimeo.com/6782769

In the background there is a 3x3x3.......or is there? Watch all the way through to find out. :wink:

Alex

I watched that video at least six times before and totally missed that.

monker59 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:31 pm

Was browsing YouTube and I found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYiI3HTLppg

The channel is a take off of the vlogbrothers, they are the stephvlogbrothers.

In the background, there's a scrambled 5x5x5

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

TheCube wrote:

in the new American Dad episode, starting at 2:34 in the bottom left corner, a scrambled 5x5 cube is visible

monker59 wrote:

Was browsing YouTube and I found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYiI3HTLppg

The channel is a take off of the vlogbrothers, they are the stephvlogbrothers.

In the background, there's a scrambled 4x4x4

You 2 may want to swap. The American Dad one is a 4x4x4 and the one in the video is a 5x5x5.

Alex

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

http://www.oddee.com/item_97001.aspx

I looked at the title of this and thought "there's going to be solving a Rubik's cube there", and I looked at the thumbnail next to the title and it was a guy solving a 3x3x3.

Alex

darryl · **Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:24 pm

The thing that impresses me more than the guy solving the cube while skydiving is the guy taking the video of it. He must have been hanging out the plane in order to get the shot of him jumping out, then adjusting to make sure he's at the same approximate height and whatnot.

-d

quicksolver · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:38 pm

We had a Reach for the Top tournament (for Non-Canadians: Reach for the Top is a youth trivia quiz game that has tournaments all over Canada that culminate in a televised national championship) and one of the questions was "The V-7 (or V-Cube 7) is a variant of what-". I didn't let the reader finish the question because I was "buzzing in". I buzzed in so hard I accidentally broke my buzzer :oops:

. What's more, I happened to have my V-Cube 7 with me on the table beside me (I bring my cubes to tournaments to intimidate the other players-it works, too!)

quicksolver · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:38 pm

On RoflRazzi: http://roflrazzi.com/2010/03/18/celebri ... biks-cube/

Sorry, didn't have time to get picture

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

Interesting Rubik's Cube illusion.

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

greeneye · **Posted:** Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:35 am

PaulWozniak wrote:

Interesting Rubik's Cube illusion.

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

wrong link LMFAO :lol:

u mean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTkttFqKuI i think

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

HAHAHAHAHA WOOPS!

I've been Pacquiao crazy since last weeks fight.

What's funny is that I actually double checked that link and re-copy and pasted it to make sure I didn't screw up, but I must've hit the wrong key!

And yes, that is the one I meant to post.

katsmom · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:47 am

Our friend Smaz had a bit of a spread in a local magazine this week. I thought you all would enjoy seeing it.

Don't ask me to translate, I can't! Maybe someone here would be kind enough to do so.

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And the crazy lady tossing the 'garbage', but securely holding the good stuff :lol:

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All I really got in a quick scan by my husband this morning is "You spend way too much on puzzles each month", "Michael makes more playing with toys than you do teaching", "[Censored. Please be nice!]! why did they put that picture in there-how are you going to do it now?", "I don't know which one of you are crazier".

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:53 am

katsmom wrote:

"I don't know which one of you are crazier".

I am sure Katherine does!

:lol:

Pantazis

katsmom · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:28 am

I prefer "slightly eccentric" :lol:

She was banned from using the computer for that! Little bug.

Hugo Mak · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:52 am

Wow.

I know you have a lot, but I don't know you have more than 20 thousands!

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

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db ... 1829#comic

darryl · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:31 pm

This isn't exactly public, but I guess you tube is open for the general public in most places, so I'll post it.

It's a girl balancing books on her head while reciting 100 digits of pi while solving a Rubik's cube.

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

Actually, looking at the video again, she's just twisting a solved cube around and keeping it solved. I'm not sure about the numbers of pi though.

-d

ENCuber · **Joined:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:56 am

I can verify that she is reciting pi (atleast for the first 28 digits I've memorized) :lol:

Luke · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:04 pm

ENCuber wrote:

I can verify that she is reciting pi (atleast for the first 28 digits I've memorized) :lol:

Oh, couldn't she have done the square root of 2? I know that to 111 digits.

JonnyWhoopes · **Posted:** Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:50 pm

Braille Cube on EpicWinForTheWin

Direct Link

Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

APJ wrote:

http://www.oddee.com/item_97001.aspx

I looked at the title of this and thought "there's going to be solving a Rubik's cube there", and I looked at the thumbnail next to the title and it was a guy solving a 3x3x3.

Alex

My Geometry teacher claims to be good friends with this skydiver... I don't really believe him but apparently that's the guy who arranges the Fall competition in Boulder, CO.

JonnyWhoopes · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:13 pm

Rentlix wrote:

APJ wrote:

http://www.oddee.com/item_97001.aspx

I looked at the title of this and thought "there's going to be solving a Rubik's cube there", and I looked at the thumbnail next to the title and it was a guy solving a 3x3x3.

Alex

My Geometry teacher claims to be good friends with this skydiver... I don't really believe him but apparently that's the guy who arranges the Fall competition in Boulder, CO.

I actually saw that video clip on ESPN the other day. It's Dan Knights.

cooldayr · **Joined:** Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:09 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsbpmQ9 ... re=recentf

look at 1:13
I cant believe its in this of all songs :lol:

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

cooldayr wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsbpmQ9-mc&feature=recentf

look at 1:13
I cant believe its in this of all songs :lol:

Posted at least twice before. :wink:

Alex

Celia · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:20 am

New commercial by s.Oliver: Play Denim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS-77YGVDAg

I went to a store and asked about it. There isn't actually a Rubik's Cube to play with for customers. It's nothing like "Get 10% off for every side you solve."

ulmboy556 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:46 pm **Location:** PA, USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_R6xah ... eature=sub

2:08 "ricky" is randomly turning a 3x3

Clay n Eva Creations · **Joined:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:17 pm

In a 3d printer ad video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nExE9D2 ... ature=grec

eye2eye · **Posted:** Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:01 pm

at 1:48 in a recent college humor video
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1931985

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

Not sure if it has been mentioned before but Adriana Lima briefly handled a Rubik's Cube in Ugly Betty-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWgR2Ni8Zs

hysterical_oliver · **Posted:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:37 am

Not sure if this one has been posted before. I don't care if it's not any traditional colour scheme, I'd love to have one for my birthday :lol:

Celia · **Posted:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:19 pm

My brother just alerted me to this article on Spiegel Online (Spiegel is German for mirror):
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/0,1518,689395,00.html
The title translates as "Rubik's Cube as Small Power Plant".

Designer Zheng Weixi (I searched for his name here, but didn't find it) has the idea to use the energy which is applied to solve a Cube to power small devices such as mp3-players. He thinks of putting a battery inside the cube which can give it's power via USB.

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

Make your own modified Rubik's cube on Lifehacker linking to Instructables.

ndiamond · **Joined:** Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:32 pm **Location:** Tokyo

The Japan Times editorial cartoon by Roger Dahl on 2010-04-22 was a 2x2x2 Hatoyama's Cube. The faces included Hatoyama's face, a map of Okinawa, words Futenma and Base and Move etc. Naturally the configuration shown is unsolvable.

Unfortunately the Japan Times's web site doesn't seem to include an archive of their editorial cartoons and I hesitate to scan a knockoff.

katsmom · **Posted:** Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:57 am

Our good friend SmaZ is making quite a name for himself locally. Not one, but three articles in the past month! Well done! I am not sure where these two come from-I still can't read Chinese :lol:

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

I'm always a sucker for this kind of stuff.

And guess what they sneaked in! hehe

http://www.smellybean.com/link.jsp?UniqNumber=10035

Scroll through the whole thing - left to right (smallest to biggest). If you already know the size of a rubik's cube, you'll probably know where it's located.

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

reeeech wrote:

I'm always a sucker for this kind of stuff.

And guess what they sneaked in! hehe

http://www.smellybean.com/link.jsp?UniqNumber=10035

Scroll through the whole thing - left to right (smallest to biggest). If you already know the size of a rubik's cube, you'll probably know where it's located.

I remember seeing that on IAB a while back. I was going to post it here but forgot. :roll:

Their measurements for the standard cube are a bit out though, aren't they?

Alex

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