Thread: "Rubik-like puzzle"

Dear Roice,

Cheers and happy new year! I am co-organizing in March an math festival
event with several stands, for one of them my idea is to embody the
following Rubick's cube like puzzle with people following marks on the
floor :

https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~cheritat/AppletsDivers/AnneauxHongrois/
page.html

For this I need a resolving algorithm that is not too long to implement. I
recall that you were part of a club or forum of puzzle solvers, would you
happen to know a solution, or somebody who knows one? How much time would
it take you to devise one if you wanted? I can come up with an algorithm
but it is pretty long to implement and you must keep track of many
movements on a sheet of paper (or have an excellent memory) because of
conjugations.

By default there is the 5,5,1,1 variant (the 4 numbers in a column of text
fields in the lower left).
I also like the 6,6,2,2, that I cannot solve quickly either.
I'd be happy to have a nice method for one of those two.

Of course you can look at many variants.
The 4,4,1,1 is easy, yet interesting.
The n,2,k,1 are easy, good for training maybe?

Best,
Arnaud.

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I have never played a Hungarian ring. But Jaap's page has solutions that he
may like:

https://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/rings.htm

Nan

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Roice Nelson roice3@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] =
<
4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi solution-wizards,
>
> A friend of mine, Arnaud Ch=C3=A9ritat, is looking for an efficient solut=
ion
> algorithm for a class of twisty puzzles like the Hungarian rings
> puzzle. It will be used for
> a live solve where people play the role of the permuted dots. I wanted t=
o
> see if any of you might be able to help with this.. Details are below.
>
> Best,
> Roice
>
>
> P.S. Arnaud makes awesome software and mathematical images. Check out his
> site here: https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~cheritat/
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Arnaud Ch=C3=A9ritat
> Date: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:11 AM
> Subject: Rubik-like puzzle
> To: Roice Nelson
>
>
> Dear Roice,
>
> Cheers and happy new year! I am co-organizing in March an math festival
> event with several stands, for one of them my idea is to embody the
> following Rubick's cube like puzzle with people following marks on the
> floor :
>
> https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~cheritat/AppletsDivers/
> AnneauxHongrois/page.html
>
> For this I need a resolving algorithm that is not too long to implement. =
I
> recall that you were part of a club or forum of puzzle solvers, would you
> happen to know a solution, or somebody who knows one? How much time would
> it take you to devise one if you wanted? I can come up with an algorithm
> but it is pretty long to implement and you must keep track of many
> movements on a sheet of paper (or have an excellent memory) because of
> conjugations.
>
> By default there is the 5,5,1,1 variant (the 4 numbers in a column of tex=
t
> fields in the lower left).
> I also like the 6,6,2,2, that I cannot solve quickly either.
> I'd be happy to have a nice method for one of those two.
>
> Of course you can look at many variants.
> The 4,4,1,1 is easy, yet interesting.
> The n,2,k,1 are easy, good for training maybe?
>
> Best,
> Arnaud.
>
>
>=20
>

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Dear Roice,

Cheers and happy new year! I am co-organizing in March an math festival
event with several stands, for one of them my idea is to embody the
following Rubick's cube like puzzle with people following marks on the
floor :

https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~cheritat/AppletsDivers/
AnneauxHongrois/page.html

For this I need a resolving algorithm that is not too long to implement. I
recall that you were part of a club or forum of puzzle solvers, would you
happen to know a solution, or somebody who knows one? How much time would
it take you to devise one if you wanted? I can come up with an algorithm
but it is pretty long to implement and you must keep track of many
movements on a sheet of paper (or have an excellent memory) because of
conjugations.

By default there is the 5,5,1,1 variant (the 4 numbers in a column of text
fields in the lower left).
I also like the 6,6,2,2, that I cannot solve quickly either.
I'd be happy to have a nice method for one of those two.

Of course you can look at many variants.
The 4,4,1,1 is easy, yet interesting.
The n,2,k,1 are easy, good for training maybe?

Best,
Arnaud.




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