{"id":4897,"date":"2025-12-16T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:14:12","slug":"hanoiminx-3-layer-magic-drum-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4897","title":{"rendered":"Hanoiminx \/ 3-Layer Magic Drum Algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17659066564154485583515555976911-e1765906736344.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17659066564154485583515555976911-e1765906736344-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5339\" \/><\/a>This is a relatively-simple and rather-fun puzzle that really only requires two steps and a little bit of intuition.  Let&#8217;s look!<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1: Solve Small Edges<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If two are flipped (correctly placed, but flipped)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Place on top layer, on L and R.\n<li>Small triangle facing you.\n<li>R\u2019, L, R, L\u2019\n<li>U, L\u2019, U&#8217;, L\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2kz5CadS_uA?si=7t_xANKxtdn5L2cV&#038;t=517\">Link with timestamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Step 2: Solve Triangle Edges<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>Mostly intuitive<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17659063224753876906184680979475-e1765906377349.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17659063224753876906184680979475-e1765906377349-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5335\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Step 3: Solve corners<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>Three-cycle<\/p>\n<p>You can do this starting on the right like this photo or on the left.  Just a mirror algorithm.  For this one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R&#8217;, L, R, L&#8217;\n<li>(this positions the green layer piece on yellow)\n<li>Move the yellow triangle to the next spot (clockwise here)\n<li>L, R&#8217;, L&#8217;, R\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a relatively-simple and rather-fun puzzle that really only requires two steps and a little bit of intuition. Let&#8217;s look! Step 1: Solve Small Edges If two are flipped (correctly placed, but flipped) Place on top layer, on L and R. Small triangle facing you. R\u2019, L, R, L\u2019 U, L\u2019, U&#8217;, L Link [&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-4897","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\/4897","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=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5519,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/5519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}