3 x 3 x 4 cuboid

So I have been doing a lot of Rubik's cube solving lately I am pretty good at it and my fastest speed is 1 minute and 5 seconds.

It is probably faster now because I haven't timed myself in a long time.

Well this Sunday I went to church and one of my friends dad who is a Rubik's cube expert came to church with a 3 x 3 x 4 cuboid.

A cuboid is different than than a regular Rubik's cube because it has more layers or sides.

So it looked really weird at first and the sides could only move 180 degrees but the middles moved regularly. It was all messed up but the two white and yellow were solved.

the thing is that the white and yellow can not go into the middle and the middle pieces cannot go into the top.

It has 12 stickers on the middle sides but the top and bottom at like a regular 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik's cube.

Me and my cube expert friends tried solving it but with all cubes it is really hard to solve without instructions.

We could only solve the bottom layer and we gave it back to him but the let me " Bring it home and play around with it"

So I brought it home and I went onto the computer and tried to solve it.

It took about 2 hours to solve it because everything was so different from the 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik's cube.

but I solved it and I was so happy, I wrote down all of the algorithms and now am trying to solve it without looking at instructions.

I can't wait to see my friends expressions when they see that I have solved it.

The match window

So lately I have been doing a lot of puzzles.

In including the Rubik's cube which I can solve in under 90 sec.

Brain teasers and logic puzzles.

I also got a few wooden puzzles including a diamond cube, an X in a box and the mouse trap. I have solved all of them except the diamond cube.

I just did a puzzle that was with match sticks and this is what it looks like so you can set it up.

You have to remove 6 matches and there can be no hanging ones. At the end there have only 3 squares remaining. (I'll leave a hint at the end of this blog post).

I also got another cool book called FableHaven Book of Imagination by Brandon Mull where you can fold your own stuff and do riddles which is really fun. There is also a secret message about his next book, but you have to go through all the other ones to find it.

On my rubik's cubes when I started I didn't know how to solve it, but I saw my friend doing it so I figured I could learn. The night after I researched how to solve I found a way to solve it and then a couple of weeks later I could do it without looking at any hints and then a week after that I could do it in 90 seconds.

(Hint for match puzzle: The big square around has to stay there, so you only remove matches from the middle)