Rubik's Snake Puzzle Bug
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Owner:
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Friday, December 5, 2008
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Origin:
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Vestland, Norway
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To give the explorers a little puzzle on their way.
A little challange for the Geochacher explorers!
A Rubik's Snake (also Rubik's Twist, Rubik's Transformable Snake, Rubik’s Snake Puzzle) is a toy with twenty-four wedges shaped like right isosceles triangular prisms. The wedges are connected such that they can be twisted, but not separated. Through this twisting, the Rubik's Snake can attain positions including a straight line, a ball (technically a nonuniform concave rhombicuboctahedron), a dog, a duck, a rectangle, a snake and many more imaginative shapes and figures. The World record is held by Odum with a time of 7.73 seconds.
Twisting instructions:
The description of an arbitrary shape or figure is based on a set of instructions of twisting the prisms. The starting point is a straight line, where the 12 prisms at the bottom are numbered from 1 to 12. The left and the right turning area of these prisms are labeled which L and R respectively. The four possible positions of the each turning area numbered with 0, 1, 2 and 3 (twist between the bottom prism and its neighbor). The numbering is based on the first clockwise turn of a prism. The position 0 is the starting position and therefore isn’t explicitly noted. A twist is described as:
Number of the prism: 1 to 12
Left or right side of the prism: L or R
Position of the twist: 1, 2 or 3
for example Three Peaks
6R1-6L3-5R2-5L3-4R2-4L1-1R1-3L3-3R2-7L2-7R3-8L1-8R2-9L1-9R2-10L3-12R3-11L1-10R2
for example Cats
9R2-9L2-8L2-7R2-6R2-6L2-5L3-4L2-3R2-2R2-2L2
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