Why does solving Rubik’s Cube require knowing all 6 sides?
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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.
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