okay Emily look what came in the mail any idea what that is
Whats it say on the box? Magnetic cube.com. we're preparing to make a how to solve
the Rubik's cube video so we emailed a few companies and asked if they would
donate some cubes these people are the first to respond this is something
really cool we just got to open it up take a look at it so let's get our our
Batmobile knife here alright let's look inside and see what this is all about
I've wanted one of these for a while check this out now that is crazy
basically what it is it's a dice cube and it's assembled with magnets I
thought about building one of these a long time ago and then when I looked
online I saw this company just the amount of work of actually doing that
would be a lot of work so I ended up opting not to do it but this is cool
well so if we look inside that's a lot of magnets I forget the amount what will
look but it's a the various centers got larger magnets and every outer magnet
for example this corner it appears to have two no three magnets and then the
edge has four that's a lot of magnets so you solve it I assume you you kind of
have to hold full turns I don't think you're going to do finger tricks with
this
what I would like to do is actually color these so the way you solve it is
you just treat this like say a color like white and then you would treat the
threes like say green and so forth and so on
being unfamiliar yeah one second being unfamiliar with that it'd be a little
difficult so what I may do is I make color we got some different markers and
stuff and paint markers we may try but we'll get to that in a little bit we'll
play with it first okay so go ahead and try Emily you'll have to do full hand
turns I think so it doesn't come apart so that's going to be a little bit
difficult if you used to you know finger tricks and a lot of Solomon's kind of
muscle memory you don't even think about it so this would be a little bit of a a
mental exercise for us but that that is awesome and you know what what it's a it
turns surprisingly well you know what I said I can even just grip right there
and turning
I mix it up yeah hold on so let's take a look if we split that off we can
basically just split these layers up and now for example that is cool that is
neat yeah we're definitely gonna want to color them and on his website he had
some that were colored each one of these had a color representing these colors I
think he used let's see I wrote it down I think he used number ones were yellow
to orange three blue four green we'll probably just use that same that same
pattern but that's really neat
check that out yeah I can't imagine the amount of work
of actually doing all that you'd have to set up a jig and just it's more work
than I have time to do and that's done very very well they have larger models
as well I saw a big giant one there's a youtuber by the the channel named
mythology mythologist something like that that actually assisted in designing
a large one because with the polarities that can get pretty complex when you get
bigger than three by threes and they've also got two by twos and whatnot
so yeah that's that's that's pretty cool so let's just so it's all threes right
there all fours so if you see they're all lined up here I don't know if they
would stay lined up like that once you mix it up you might actually be able to
solve the outside but then the inside itself may be you know for example maybe
the threes wouldn't be oriented all the same I don't really know okay yeah go
ahead and mix it up yeah and then see if you can somehow
make the sixes on top in the one yeah that's what I would do but I can
tell you it's gonna be difficult to solve I think because you won't be used
to the colors and plus the finger tricks yeah
like hurts my eyes yeah I think we're gonna color them as soon as you solve it
we're gonna try either colored Sharpie markers or the pink markers that I have
it's gonna take a while yeah yes it is wait wait hold up that's good
like I said I don't think I'd be able to solve it it's yes I'm so used to the
colors and I don't have a hard time with I'm like forgetting where everything is
so you got the first two layers so the interesting thing yeah you got the line
the interesting thing is though even though we've solved this and it's right
check this out of the orientation is a little different so that's that's
something you would never notice with a regular queue
okay Emily we finally solved this but it was not easy and I noticed something
interesting so for example all these sixes are lined up oh no I've got a
mistake so I didn't solve it let me fix that oh you know what I think I knocked
that out and just put it back in I accidentally knocked it out by hand and
then I put it back in wrong so but something interesting I found out is
like look at these threes they're not oriented the right way and I don't even
know how you you would do that I don't know the algorithm you would use so
that's kind of interesting you would have to rotate this without
these so there's an extra level to solving this than just this cube because
if these weren't these were rotating you would never know but it was extremely
difficult for two reasons one I didn't have the color association in two we're
so used to doing it by muscle memory you know two moves at one time that I don't
actually remember any the algorithm it's just muscle memory so when I do this
cube you have to actually know the algorithms which we don't so you have to
really stop and and think about it but what we will do is we'll we'll take
these apart and get all these or in a back and then we'll we'll color them all
with the with the markers okay so look at when we break this open Emily it's
kind of mixed up on the inside too so this end piece is correct and oriented
correctly that middle piece is not in this end piece is that's pretty cool you
can see threw it out after you see it on the camera very well but you can see
through this and all the magnets that's why we wanted this translucent cube we
thought it would look pretty neat you think you can fix this home the
middle piece okay so we got the middle straightened out you can see these can
be these can be flipped around and it's still a 2 on the outside but it's not
oriented like it originally was it'll still work you still solve the cube all
right so we'll put that there that and and it's all solid and we're
gonna color that that that'd give us a fighting chance of solving it in a
reasonable amount of time that that took us a while to solve okay so we've got to
decide the color code I think we'll make one's yellow fours green 5 red to orange
3 blue and 6 will stay white and that'll be a lot less coloring we have to do
leaving the sixes on the bottom so we've got a lot of sharpies and markers
unfortunately I don't have a big yellow so we're gonna try this one first and if
it doesn't work we'll use a paint marker
I suddenly check it out it turned out pretty good
now hindsight we should have used paint instead of a sharpie but it worked out
okay the only thing I the only color I don't like the red looks really good
the blue it doesn't stand out enough so maybe we should have changed it to maybe
a purple or some sort of blue substitute so because it's blue on blue the the
orange looks pretty good the greens a little dark maybe a lighter green like a
fluorescent paint maybe you want to work the red looks pretty good yellow it's
pretty good and white so we'll take a look at the website from magnetic cube
comm they're colored ones I think or white dice so the colors stand out and
then I think they might had a black one but the color stood out pretty good on
it as well they don't stand out as well in this translucent but I do like the I
like the translucent it's pretty cool because it's see-through now do you
think I'll be able to solve this okay
Emily we've got it lubricated and it moves pretty good now so let's do a
little checker pattern all right so that standard checker pattern I think now
maybe I could solve it let's just go ahead and mix it up and let's get that
one in so where's that guy right here
okay so we got lucky we got a yellow cross okay so right right up right up
right back up back right back
AHA got it now check it out and everything looks oriented properly the
only way we'll know 100% for sure is to open it up little oily everything looks
right there the middles are gonna be right it's gonna be these that could be
wrong and everything looks right there so yeah man that's like a speed cube now
you think I should do a finger trick oh
no you're right I shouldn't do a finger trick well I had to try I had to know
okay what well see look boom I'm looking for the twos I think the two so finger
tricks don't work they just shoot out at you but that's really that's pretty cool
though I like that so
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