{"id":4691,"date":"2024-06-09T02:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2024-12-22T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T19:34:23","slug":"shengshou-pentahedron-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4691","title":{"rendered":"Shengshou Pentahedron Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>EDIT<\/b>: I had a far-too-complex solution here, but it turns out that for the two and three-layered versions, things are quite simple.  I solved the four-layered and haven&#8217;t tried the five yet.  For now, a quick refresher &#8211; which works just like a 3x3x2.  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ULORbyY_w6s\">Tutorial help if you need it<\/a>)  Also, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AJ05GBFcrec?si=9_7-WdWLjz66bWQA\">link to the Four-layered tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get White corners\n<li>Insert centers (3x3x3 alg: R, U, R, U&#8217;, R)\n<li>Swap centers or corners\n<ul>\n<li>R, U, R, U&#8217;, R (rotate cube CCW), R, U&#8217;, R, U, R\n<\/ul>\n<li>Depending on what you start with (corner or edge), it&#8217;ll cycle accordingly.\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--\n\n\n\n<p>If you get headlights on the LL:\n\n\n<ul>\n\n\n<li>Correct piece pointing towards you\n\n\n<li>R, F, U (x3)\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>This swaps the LL centers.\n\n\n<ul>\n\n\n<li>Place correct on R side\n\n\n<li>L, R, U, R, U', R, D, R, U, R, U, R\n\nI got a 4 and 5-layer Pentahedron and opted to grab 2 and 3-layer versions.  Here are some algorithms for the smallest version to help before I move on to the higher-order puzzles.  \n\n\n\n<p><b>Step #1: Get White & Yellow Centers<\/b>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nThis puzzle is red-white-green clockwise unlike a standard puzzle, so get that on white on the bottom and move on to the top.\n\n\n\n<p>If you have two swapped, keep the correctly-placed center on the left.  With a triangle pointing at you.\n\nF\/ U \/ F \/ D' \/ F \/ \n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><b>Step #2: Finish white Layer<\/b>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nPut the proper white piece above its correct location and do the standard 3x3x2 algorithm.  R \/ U \/ R \/ U' \/ R.  This is an easy, familiar step.  \n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><b>Step #3: Last-Layer: Corners<\/b>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\nWe're going to start our last layer with corners first.  If you need to swap two of these, put the correctly-placed corner triangle pointing at you and:\n\n\n\n<p>\nR \/ F \/ U \/ <br \/>\nR \/ F \/ U \/ R \/ F\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><b>Step #4: Last-Layer Centers<\/b>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIf you end up with a pair of incorrectly-positioned centers, keep the solved side on your right and perform this lengthy algoritm.\n\nL \/ R \/ U \/ R \/ \nU' \/ R \/ D \/ R \/ \nU \/ R \/ U \/ R \n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Need to verify this all.  Then I'm moving to the bigger puzzles.\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: I had a far-too-complex solution here, but it turns out that for the two and three-layered versions, things are quite simple. I solved the four-layered and haven&#8217;t tried the five yet. For now, a quick refresher &#8211; which works just like a 3x3x2. (Tutorial help if you need it) Also, here&#8217;s the link to [&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-4691","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\/4691","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=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}