<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/95cad512-bd0d-4bb0-826b-dd27a3be64dd/D02689E4-EFD5-4958-AAC2-B4035C8CC8D4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://howtosolvearubixcube.wordpress.com/" href="http://howtosolvearubixcube.wordpress.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">howtosolvearubixcube.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://howtosolvearubixcube.wordpress.com/">not 4×4x4 or 5×5x5, as they are essentially the same.  Same applies to many other “jumble then unjumble” puzzles, e.g. rubix Rings (the rotation puzzle, not the flat foldy unfoldy one), rubix UFO, etc. Perhaps the problem is that people are shown how to solve a particular puzzle rather than working it out themselves, so they don’t understand why the solution works (to the extent that they could solve similar but different puzzles)? Or maybe some puzzles like this are simple enough for people to hit on ad-hoc solutions by themselves without understanding why they work?  I would have thought the 3×3x3 was too complex for this, but maybe not… As a test, someone who understands the rubix cube should be able to <A href="http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Solve-a-Rubix-Cube-in-Different-Methods&id=2816085">how to solve a rubix cube</A> with   the following 3×3x3 “subgroup” puzzle: 1) Take your 3×3x3 rubix cube and arbitrarily select one “physical” edge.  This identifies two physical corner pieces and the physical</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D02689E4-EFD5-4958-AAC2-B4035C8CC8D4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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