Why does solving Rubik’s Cube require knowing all 6 sides?
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Because you might not know what pice is where.
Let the cube reston the table. If you see red in the middle on all sides toward the table. Red middle pieces exist with green, white, blue and yellow. How do you determine which of them have with other color without looking at the side toward the table? The answer is you can’t.
A rubik’s cube has six sides… To solve requires 6 solved sides… Perhaps you’re thinking you can focus on one side at a time. That doesn’t work because the sides of the puzzle are an illusion. There aren’t sides of the puzzle. There are sides to pieces. And the pieces all have different colored sides. You cant change the sides to a piece, you can only change where the piece is. Putting an edge piece in a place where it has one corect side is just putting an incorrect piece there. You’re not any closer to solving it until you put the edge piece with two correct sides in place and corner pieces with 3 correct sides and place. Middle pieces aren’t really pieces either. They can’t be moved relative to each other. Think of the middle pieces as connected to a skeleton that all the other pieces have to move around.
Can you elaborate on your question? A Rubik’s Cube isn’t solved unless all 6 sides are solved, so I’m not sure how someone would know that a cube is solved if they don’t know what’s on all 6 of the sides (or technically, 5 of the sides as you can rule out the last one by process of elimination).
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