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Rolling Cubes

The rolling cubes puzzle looks simple, but is surprisingly difficult. The concept is that you have eight cubes, black on one side and white on the other, and you try to roll them around to get all the white sides on top and the space in the middle. My Java version of rolling cubes is surprisingly popular, so I made a Pilot version.

Click here to download the puzzle and here to download the source. Note that this is my first Pilot program, and I give no guarantees on it. I'd appreciate feedback.

This game was invented by John Harris and described in the Mathematical Games column of the March 1975 Scientific American.


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Ken Shirriff: shirriff@eng.sun.com
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Copyright 2000 Ken Shirriff. Last updated 3/13/2001. Java and other Java-based names are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and refer to Sun's family of Java-branded technologies. PalmPilot is a trademark of 3Com. Use of this software is subject to the terms of the license agreement.
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