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ORBIX II

THE EXCITING NEW COMPUTERIZED LIGHT & SOUND PUZZLE BALL WITH AN INFINITE PLAYING FIELD.
LOOKS THE SAME NO MATTER HOW ONE TURNS THE LOGIC ALWAYS FOLLOWS.

It?s not so difficult to be frustrating, but rather lots of fun, with challenges. Playing rules are simple-to-understand. It?s unique logic lets you play in seconds whilst giving days, even month and years of exiting challenge, whilst becoming a master.

SOLUTION (simple rule for puzzle1) Press the button facing you and the 5 surrounding lights will reverse. Press the 5 surrounding buttons (in any sequence) and the center light will reverse.

ORBIX philosophy relates to everyday situations:
Good & Bad, Love & Hate, Rich & Poor, Black & White, Yin & Yang, Hot & Cold, On & Off, etc.
Opposites Are A Universal Factor Laws of Nature and Computer Science utilize the principle of reversal, thereby ORBIX teaches an important lesson in how to succeed in life:
Change any current situation to suit our needs. ORBIX helps you to analyze, in advance, the effect of a sequence of single moves, as in chess.

What makes the ORBIX special?
It is small, simple, elegant, hi-tech. It fits the hand with a pleasant feel. Twisting and turning are fundamental and intriguing motions which the hand performs naturally. The ORBIX is perfect finger food ! Playing with ORBIX, 1,000 small bumps & 12 lens-buttons, gently massage over 70,000 nerve ends in the palms, increasing circulation whilst exercising the Mind. I Personally like to play with ORBIX in a dark or semi-dark Room - this is very stimulating and relaxing.
THE MORE YOU PLAY THE SMARTER / HEALTHIER YOU BECOME LIGHT UP YOUR MIND

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The Professor Cube is the ultimate Magic cube it presents a real challenge to the cube expert amongst us.
Whilst not the largest cube in production the larger cubes such a 7x7x7 or even an 11x11x11 cube pose no new challenges, as the 5x5x5 cube contains all the moves one needs to also solve all of the bigger cubes one just needs to repeat the same moves over and over..

Mechanism
It is possible to move the cube along any line on the surface. Each line can be moved independently or with an adjacent line. It has precision injection molded parts which make operation easy and exact.

The idea of the puzzle is to scramble the colors and then return them to the initial state of six single-colored sides, or make many challenging patterns..

The Professor Cube is difficult, but should prove a worthy challenge for a Puzzle expert. Just in case you do have difficulty in solving the Professor Cube, a hint booklet can be downloaded from the solution link.

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The Master cube, also known as Rubik's Revenge is a cube which is built from smaller cubes, 4 to an edge, i.e. a 4x4x4 cube. Each slice can rotate, which rearranges the small cubes on the surface of the puzzle. The six sides of the cube are coloured, so every corner piece shows three colours, every edge piece shows 2 colours, and every face centre only one.

Unlike the normal 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, turning a face does move the face centres. The centres therefore can not be immediately used as a fixed reference point.

The 4�4�4 mechanism was patented by Peter Sebesteny on 20 December 1983, US 4,421,311.

The number of positions:
There are 8 corner pieces with 3 orientations each, 24 edge pieces with 2 orientations each, 24 centre pieces, giving a maximum of 8!?24!?24!?3⁸?2²⁴ positions. This limit is not reached because:

The total twist of the corners is fixed (3)

The edge orientation is dependent on its position (2²⁴)

There are indistinguishable face centres (4!⁶)

The orientation of the puzzle does not matter (24)

This leaves 7!?24!?24!?3⁶/4!⁶= 7,401,196,841,564,901,869,874,093,974,498,574,336,000,000,000
or 7.4?10⁴⁵ positions.

Links to other useful pages:
Denny's Puzzle Pages. A very nice graphical solution, top/bottom corners and centres then edges, followed by middle edges and centres.
Dennis Palaganas' page. also has a solution.
Philip Marshall's page. A solution that does centres, pairs up edges and then solves as for the 3x3x3 cube.
Oxford computing lab has an old text based solution here and here.

Like the normal cube, there are several types of solution. I will give three examples here, and mention some advantages or disadvantages of each.
Solution 1: Layer by layer.
Solution 2: Corners first.
Solution 3: Pairing up edges.
At the end is one further section containing
Pretty patterns

Notation:
Let the faces be denoted by the letters L, R, F, B, U and D (Left, Right Front, Back, Up and Down). Clockwise quarter turns of a face layer are denoted by the appropriate letter, anti-clockwise quarter turns by the letter with an apostrophe (i.e. L', R', F', B', U' or D'). Half turns are denoted by the letter followed by a 2 (i.e. L2, R2, F2, B2, U2 or D2). The above is the same notation as for the 3x3x3 cube. There is however a new type of move. The internal slices will be denoted by the lowercase letters l, r, f, b, u and d, and the type of move is shown in the same way as normal face moves. Note that these letters mean the slice only, so such a move will not disturb the corners of the cube.

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