Post-A-level entertainment 1

Lalala... the most active blogger here blogs again (you all should be sick of that mask by now)... Oh well, you all should know by now what I'm going to blog about... Yup, it's my new big toy!!! =)

Well, I'm supposed to be pretty happy. But then nearly everything went wrong with the order, I guess that company ie. "cubeforyou" sucks to the CORE (pun intended)... White becomes black, DIY kit becomes assembled toy, unstickered becomes stickered, unlubricated becomes lubricated... worse still, the stickering was done by machine, which means many stickers were stuck on misaligned... and the stickers were pretty low-class, so when i peeled them off to resticker them, some of them started peeling... see la, 厉害就厉害, 不要假厉害, told them not to sticker it and they didn't listen to me, think they are doing me a favour, now I got to redo so much... oh, i peeled off almost 200 stickers i think... gah... I guess the only thing they got right about my order was that I ordered a gigaminx.

Ok anyway, since A-levels is (virtually) over, and I wanted to find out why it JAMMEDlike CRAP, and curiosity got the better of me... I decided to dismantle the whole thing (which was why I bought it in the 1st place, I wanted the fun of assembling it) ... And since it was a DIY, I could easily pop the centre caps, unscrew it and PULL... then everything came out. YAY =)


PINK core =) Mmm, that's probably one of the very few things I liked about what I ordered from them...


And naturally... the rest of the disassembled gigaminx was a HUGE mess...


Which included 12 core pieces...


And each of their corresponding centre caps...

As well as 30 central edges...

60 wing edges...

60 corner centres...

60 middle centres...

And 20 corners!

Oh, and most importantly, the screws and springs!!! =)

And then I realized to my horror...

The pieces look nearly identical to my 7*7*7 cube pieces! And V-cube applied for copyright laws... Tsk tsk tsk, copycats, and yet the quality is so low compared to V-cubes...

Anyway, to make everything neater / more orderly / reduce the entropy of the system, I arranged everything nicely...

Definitely a lot more beautiful than I expected!!! =) 255 pieces of plastic and 24 pieces of metal put together, with 15 different colours ( stickers, core, plastic, metal, haha), and of course, even more pieces than a 7*7*7 cube!!! =)

And then, the tedious bit... fixing everything up. Sigh, itchy hands...

1 down, 11 to go...


2 down, 10 to go...

(After a long while) Done... screwing everything in...

And then it seems to follow the same order as solving a megaminx: bottom-layer star 1st...


1 down, 4 to go...

2 down 3 to go, BOOMZ, 0 down 5 to go, 1 down 4 to go, 2 down 3 to go, 3 down 2 to g0, BOOMZ, 2 down 3 to go, bla bla bla, bla bla bla, bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla...

Done with the star!

1 face done!


Did the same for an adjacent face...


2 faces done!

3 faces! Now it really looks like a real "face" staring at you, the mouth at the bottom, and the 2 eyes there...

4 faces!

DONE!!! Haha joking la...

Still got one face left...

Gigaminx cum food bowl? HAHA =P

One piece left...

Ah ha, now I'm really done!!! =)

I left the centre caps out on purpose, to adjust tension, stupid cubeforyou, the pieces are not molded to perfection (maybe it's more appropriate if I say that they are molded to imperfection), so they lock up MORE THAN ONCE PER TURN no matter how I set the tension, so I guess I'll just screw everything in very loosely so that at least it's easier to turn...

These days I'm solving it in about an hour's time haha, probably a long way to go to cut my times down, especially the horrible edge grouping, imagine grouping 30 edges, super frustrating... Anyway, enjoy the pictures!!! Especially the one where everything is laid out on paper =)

Oh, and as a last (and mostly irrelevant) note, remember to turn up in the hall on monday, 2pm, for your physics MCQ paper!!! Just in case you party too hard and forget about it =)

~DK~