It is super satisfying when they shift in your fingers all fast. (I used to be the dork who'd be in rubix cube club, when I was a kid)
Title: Re: Bitches be Puzzlin
Post by: Fishmé on June 18, 2026, 01:45:33 am
Title: Re: Bitches be Puzzlin
Post by: Mozai on June 23, 2026, 05:37:41 am
I have two books by Raymond Smullyan that are all "one of us only lies, the other only tells the truth" type puzzles.
In this puzzle on the island of knights and knaves, knights are unavoidably honest and knaves always say contrary things. I was visiting the island when I saw three strangers (A, B, and C) spending time in a garden. As I approached the group, I asked A "If you don't mind, are you a knight or a knave?" A obligingly answered but I wasn't close enough to hear, so when I got closer I asked B "what did A say?" B said "A told you he's a knave," but C interrupted to say "Don't believe B, she's lying." Can you figure out the knight/knave status of B and C?
Title: Re: Bitches be Puzzlin
Post by: Diabolizer on July 06, 2026, 01:21:16 pm
In the summer of 2000, I was unemployed for a few months, so I bought a Rubik's cube and came up with my own algorithm for solving it. It is very, very slow requiring hundreds of moves. I also have the 12 sided Rubik's which I can solve using the conventional method. I'm not really interested is solving them fast, as my hands are slow by my nature.
I once was working on a C++ program to solve it, but I couldn't figure out how to represent an entire cube correctly. I think if I did it today, I'd use some kind of 9 x 3 tensor with each individual cube starting out as the identity matrix in its respective slot. (the identity matrix is