Master morphix
The Mastermorphix belongs to the cube-based puzzles and is a rotating puzzle created from the well-known Rubik's Cube . It is based on the mechanics of the normal Rubik's Cube with 3 levels, but has a completely different basic shape than the conventional cube because of different, not cubic, parts . The aim of the puzzle is to sort all the pieces according to colors and shapes by skillfully turning them in order to bring the master morphix into its basic position.
Structure and appearance
The master morphix has the shape of a tetrahedron in the dissolved state . It seems as if it has 4 surfaces, which is also true when viewed purely in terms of shape and color. As a rotating puzzle that corresponds to the mechanics of the Rubik's Cube, the Mastermorphix has 6 sides. The middle stones in the middle of each side of the normal Rubik's Cube are in the middle of each edge of the tetrahedron in the Mastermorphix. Since the edges separate the different colored surfaces of the tetrahedron, each central stone is two-colored. The 4 curb stones that are each around a central stone are therefore not uniformly in one color, but two of the stones are differently colored than the two opposite curb stones. The corner stones are, as with normal Rubik's cube, between three edge stones. Because of the tetrahedral shape of the puzzle, however, 4 of the 8 corner stones are also the corners of the tetrahedron; the other 4 corner stones are in the middle of each of the 4 sides. Thus, not all corner stones of the Mastermorphix have the same shape or even the appearance of a corner stone.
variants
Compared to the normal 4-color version, there is a single-color version that can only be solved according to the shape. In this case, the solution is simple because corner orientation is not possible, and edges cannot be swapped (at least not visible) in the correctly flipped state.
Solution strategy
Despite the very unusual shape and appearance, the Mastermorphix can be solved almost exactly like the normal Rubik's Cube, but small details must be taken into account. For example, in the solution process, it must be ensured that the center stones are correctly oriented because of their two-tone nature, which is negligible with the regular Rubik's Cube, since the center stones are monochrome. The orientation of the 4 corner stones in the middle of each side of the tetrahedron, on the other hand, is not visible (and therefore theoretically irrelevant). However, the case can therefore arise that it appears that only one corner is incorrectly oriented, which is actually not possible, but in fact a second corner is also incorrectly oriented, but is only monochrome and therefore apparently correct.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Rubik's Cube Workshop , accessed on: 13. April 2018.