How do you do the iqube puzzle?

Answer 1

If it is the 4 in a line puzzle then you must get a different picture on each box in the line of 4 cubes on all 4 side. to do this i cant explain it but the way i did it was by trading the pictures from one row of pictures and swapping it with another. in a way it is just like maths which when you understand this the puzzle becomes a lot easier.

To solve the iQube Puzzle:

(1) Go through every block, rotating them until every cube can be rotated without repeating an image. You will soon find one cube that cannot be rotated without repeating an image twice. We will call that cube - Cube 1.

(2) Cube 1 has two possible options - one with the two images next to each other - sharing a side...or an image on opposite sides of the cube. Orient Cube 1 so that you have the two repeating images next to each other. I will call that Image - Image Alpha.

(3) Find Cube 2. Cube 2 mathematically must have to repeat an image and it cannot have Image ALPHA. You will find only one cube that fits this criteria where the repeating images, like Cube 1, share a side. I will call this Image BETA.

(4) Put Cube 2 on top of Cube 1 and then turn the cube upside down so that IMAGE BETA is also upside down. Turn CUBE 2 so that the BETA Images are on the opposite side of the "tower" from the ALPHA Images.

(5) Cube 3 and 4 are arranged so that neither repeats an image. Put them one on the other and arrange them so the two ALPHA Images alternate on one side, and the two BETA images alternate on the opposite side.

(6) If that arrangement does not fit on the base Cube 1 and Cube 2 - turn them upside down and try that arrangement. Just remember that Cube 3 and 4 - if you are looking at them from the edge - must have the ALPHAs alternating on one "side" and the two BETA images alternating on the other.

IMAGES

A A C D ---- CUBE ONE

D C B B ---- CUBE TWO

B D A C ---- CUBE THREE

C B D A ---- CUBE FOUR

I recently put my video solution to this puzzle on YouTube.