Monday, 4 November 2019

The Pyrastar Stickered and Scrambled



The unstickered puzzles modded by Doctor_Hedron can be seen in the previous post.

Now, after receiving the stickers from Chewie, I was finally able to sticker the beasts. Four colors for eight-sided puzzles. They might be slightly easier to solve due to the limited number of colors, but I don't need anything too difficult from these puzzles. 

The Octahedron has been already scrambled and solved. That was more difficult than I thought it would be. Just another 6x6x6, I naively thought. It shattered all my experience with big cubes. All the eight sides are independent from one another. Thus the 4x4 centers can assume any 2x2 color configuration and still retain their valid states. Simply speaking this puzzle have many solved states, but it's hard to keep solving to a single state, as all of them are very similar, and keeping track of things is hard and exhausting. 

Today I've also scrambled the Pyrastar, which is much harder to solve. It probably has more than one solved state. But the color scheme, while still composed of only four colors, is more complex. No two corners are the same but they come in chiral pairs. Not too hard to tell them apart, but since no one starts solving big cubes from the corners, it doesn't help.

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