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Hungarian Rings or Devil's Circle is a sliding puzzle consisting of  two interwoven rings, which has several color labeled that you cannot take out. Challenge: The challenge is to set the balls so that the corresponding colors are next to each other. There are some variations where more than two circles are used or the two circles are not place or the balls are marked by numbers not by colors. Hungarian Rings Solution Every state is considered to be a valid solution where the four colors are coherent. In my case I have 10 balls of red, 10 black, 9 blue, and 9 yellow. Different models can have different colors but the solution here presented is with four colors. Ok, So my rings state is like this in below picture. Jumbled Rings First of all solve intuitively, one set of colors which have 10 balls(black) on the right. Then solve the next set of colors having 10 balls (red) on the left.  When this is done, try arranging the inner colors the y...

The 2X2 Rubik’s cube has only corner pieces . 2x2 Stage 1: Get to know your Cube Introduction to the 2X2 There are 8 corner pieces, each containing 3 of the 6 colors: White, Red, Blue, Yellow, Orange and Green. Faces of cube Each face is represented by a letter: Clockwise Rotation and counter-clockwise rotations are represented below Note: A letter with an “i” after means as inverse or counter-clockwise move when looking at the face of the cube. 2x2 Stage 2: Solving the first layer While solving 3X3 Rubik’s cube, the center piece indicates what color go on each side. On the 2X2 Rubik’s cube, we don’t have center piece. So we are going to pick a corner to start with. Any corner piece can be chosen to start with. We will start with a corner with white, red and blue piece. Holding your cube: Hold your cube so the white/blue/ red corner is in the top layer, in left-front position. Step 2: Solve the 2 nd corner...