2x3x3x4 hyper "tower" cube solved

[Vasvári Adrián]

Hello Hypercubists,

After a little pause in hypercubing (because of some other more important activities) I managed to solve the 2x3x3x4 "tower-type" hypercuboid in MPUlt with 1.441 twists. You can find my solution .log file in the attachment.

Again, it was a very interesting puzzle because it consists of two 2x3x3, four 2x3x4 and two 3x3x4 cells. The 2x3x3 and the 3x3x4 cells allow 90° twists but on the 2x3x4 cells only 180° twists are possible which makes it very fun to solve this puzzle.

I created my algs mainly in the view where one of the 3x3x4 cells was in the Top position (in the center of the screen). Only for one or two algs I used a view with the 2x3x3 in the center. (I did not use the 2x3x4 in the center view at all.)

Here comes the algs I used in my solution...

1a) FACE SWAP (Up-Down)

1b) FACE 3-CYCLE (Front-Back-Right)

1c) "TRICKY" FACE 3-CYCLE (Front-Right)

This is a very tricky case because it seems like a two-swap:

... but actually this is also a 3-cycle if you make the corresponding 3-colored edge stickers visible:

2a) EDGE 3-CYCLE - type 1 (Front-Back-Right)

2b) EDGE 3-CYCLE - type 2

3) CORNER 3-CYCLE

On this puzzle there are no FLIPs or TWIRLs occur. The next puzzle to solve will be the 2x3x4x4.

Who else is using MPUlt to solve cuboids?

Happy hypercubing!

Best regards,

~Adrian

[ed.baumann]

Congratulations! Very nice report.