{"id":1559,"date":"2014-07-11T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:16:13","slug":"new-cubes-order-1-rex-cube-face-turning-octahedron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1559","title":{"rendered":"New Cubes: Order #1 &#8211; Rex Cube &#038; Face-Turning Octahedron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/rex-octahedron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/rex-octahedron-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"rex-octahedron\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/rex-octahedron-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/rex-octahedron-1024x717.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two new additions to the ever-growing and rather-large <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?page_id=639\">Cube Collection<\/a>.  Today we have the Flower Rex Cube by LanLan and the same brand&#8217;s Face-Turning Octahedron.  The weirdest thing about these two is how they share the same core.  Due to this, their solution isn&#8217;t far removed from one another.  That&#8217;s a good and a bad thing.  Good for ease, bad for diversity.  This is particularly true because I don&#8217;t find them overly fun to solve.  It&#8217;s more of a chore (so far.  I haven&#8217;t solved the Octahedron yet) and not as much of a challenge as it is a task.  However, I don&#8217;t care&#8230;they were both cheap (~$12 each) and they&#8217;re great additions!  Now, order #2 is coming and I&#8217;m psyched about this one!  It&#8217;s Calvin&#8217;s 2x4x6 &#8211; an ultimate shape-shifter!  This should be cool!  More soon!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, solutions might help &#8211; if and when I forget how to solve these guys!  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twistypuzzling.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/face-turning-octahedron.html\">Octahedron Tutorial<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twistypuzzling.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/rex-cube.html\">Rex Cube Tutorial<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new additions to the ever-growing and rather-large Cube Collection. Today we have the Flower Rex Cube by LanLan and the same brand&#8217;s Face-Turning Octahedron. The weirdest thing about these two is how they share the same core. Due to this, their solution isn&#8217;t far removed from one another. That&#8217;s a good and a bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-cubing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","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=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}