Rubik's Mini-Cube T030-30000-02 - Manual (Page 2)

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RUBIK’S Mini-Cube is the pocket-sized version
of the best-selling, original RUBIK’S Cube. While
not having as many different combinations as its
big brother, the Mini-Cube can prove just as
perplexing!
Find out how fascinating this not-so-little challenge
can be. Mix up its colors with a few twists. Now
match up the cubes until each side is a solid color
again. Try to solve the puzzle logically, but think
ahead. Your success will depend on how well you can
visualize future sequences.
It’s not as simple as you may think. With hundreds
of combinations,
RUBIK’S Mini-Cube is truly a
portable puzzle challenge!
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RUBIK’S Mini-Cube has
6 faces. Each one is a
different solid color when
the Mini-Cube is solved.
The Mini-Cube is made of 8 smaller cube pieces.
All of these have 3 colors and are corner cubes.
Each face can be turned
independently. Try it.
(Doing this mixes up the
cube pieces.)
You can now use different sequences of turns to
solve the Mini-Cube. Take the challenge and try it
on your own. If you’re stumped, read the rest of this
booklet for helpful hints.
There are two kinds of turns: quarter twists and
half twists. A quarter twist turns a face 90°. A
half twist reverses a face 180°.
Whenever you twist a cube piece out of position,
perform the opposite move if you want to twist it
back into position.
Half Twist
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The 6 colors of the Mini-Cube are paired so that the
same colors are always opposite each other when the
Mini-Cube is solved. For example, BLUE is always
opposite WHITE, RED is always opposite ORANGE,
and GREEN is always opposite YELLOW.
Opposite colors never appear on the same cube piece.
For example, no cube piece will have both BLUE and
WHITE in its color scheme. It helps to remember which
colors are opposites when solving the Mini-Cube.
Complete the top face first.
This is the easiest way to solve
the Mini-Cube. With the right
twists, you can then complete
the bottom face without
disturbing the top face.
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Top Face
Bottom Face
Quarter Twist