{"id":1519,"date":"2014-03-08T18:18:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2018-12-14T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:58:09","slug":"siamese-mirror-blocks-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1519","title":{"rendered":"Siamese Mirror Blocks Algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/siamese-mirror-blocks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/siamese-mirror-blocks-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"siamese-mirror-blocks\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/siamese-mirror-blocks-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/siamese-mirror-blocks.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>I got this one a few months back and was entirely stumped.  It&#8217;s only the second cube to leave me without a solution completely.  (The other is WitEden&#8217;s Camouflage 3x3x4 &#8211; and I think I broke that one!)  Anyways, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Td8aIeY2tbY\">MartyWolfman&#8217;s marvelous tutorial<\/a>; I can now solve it!  I love cubing but I&#8217;m not the most brilliant at coming up with my own algorithms and solutions.  For this one, he used a lot of beginner&#8217;s method algorithms: something I&#8217;d forgotten entirely!  For purposes of going back to this puzzle, here are some algorithms and methods of solving.  I might need this entry someday!<\/p>\n<p><b>Inserting Middle Layer<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Right + Back<\/i><br \/>\nR \/ U \/ R \/ U \/ R \/ U&#8217; \/ R&#8217; \/ U&#8217; \/ R&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><i>Right + Front<\/i><br \/>\nR&#8217; \/ U&#8217; \/ R&#8217; \/ U&#8217; \/ R&#8217; \/ U \/ R \/ U \/ R<\/p>\n<p><b>Last-Layer Situations<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If Dot (Algorithm 2x)\n<li>If L (Place L in F &#038; R)\n<li>If Bar (Place on L &#038; R)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Turn top 2 layers to the R face = Y<br \/>\nY&#8217; \/ R \/ Y \/ R \/ U \/ R&#8217; \/ U&#8217; \/ Y&#8217; \/ R&#8217; \/ Y<\/p>\n<p>Then fix BR bottom corner<br \/>\nR&#8217; \/ U2 \/ R (to orient)<br \/>\nR&#8217; \/ U&#8217; \/ R<\/p>\n<p>Then re-fix middle layer<\/p>\n<p><b>Orient Last Layer<\/b><\/p>\n<p>One top piece last layer facing you on left<br \/>\nR \/ U \/ R&#8217; \/ U \/ R \/ U2 \/ R&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Put proper piece on BR<br \/>\nR \/ U2 \/ R&#8217; \/ U&#8217; \/ R \/ U&#8217; \/ R&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Final Layer Edge-Piece 3-Cycle (correct piece in back)<br \/>\nR \/ U\u2019 \/ R \/ U \/ R \/ U \/ R \/ U\u2019 \/ R\u2019 \/ U\u2019\/ R2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this one a few months back and was entirely stumped. It&#8217;s only the second cube to leave me without a solution completely. (The other is WitEden&#8217;s Camouflage 3x3x4 &#8211; and I think I broke that one!) Anyways, thanks to MartyWolfman&#8217;s marvelous tutorial; I can now solve it! I love cubing but I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algorithms","category-blog","category-cubing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}