5.2 Force cubes

2022-09-11

Yesterday Josh made 6 force cubes from 6 regular 3x3 stikerless cubes. The process was very interesting, so I decided to record it here.

First, we prepared six regular 3x3 IDENTICAL STICKERLESS cubes:

Then we took them apart into many kinds of pieces: cores, center caps, corners, edges.

Cores:

Center Caps:

Corners:

Edges:

Then, we sorted the center caps by color and put each group onto a core respectively. After that we got this:

Single Colored Cores:

The next work was to sparate the corner pieces and edge pieces into smaller parts:

Separated Corners:

Separated Edges:

and reassemble them into single colored corner/edge pieces:

Single Colored Corners:

Single Colored Edges:

At last, we assembled the force cubes:

Force Cubes:

And, Josh also got some other ideas, checkerboard cubes which can never be scrambled and sandwich cubes:

Other Cubes:

That’s pretty much it, by the way, Josh has a big collection of cubes which is listed on his website.