Rubik's T030-30000-02 Complete the top face first, Bottom face without Disturbing the top face

RUBIK’S Mini-Cubeis the pocket-sized version of the best-selling, original RUBIK’S Cube. While not having as many different combinations as its big brother, the Mini-Cube can prove just as perplexing!

Find out how fascinating this not-so-little challenge can be. Mix up its colors with a few twists. Now match up the cubes until each side is a solid color again. Try to solve the puzzle logically, but think ahead. Your success will depend on how well you can visualize future sequences.

It’s not as simple as you may think. With hundreds of combinations, RUBIK’S Mini-Cubeis truly a portable puzzle challenge!

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The 6 colors of the Mini-Cube are paired so that the same colors are always opposite each other when the Mini-Cube is solved. For example, BLUE is always opposite WHITE, RED is always opposite ORANGE, and GREEN is always opposite YELLOW.

Opposite colors never appear on the same cube piece. For example, no cube piece will have both BLUE and WHITE in its color scheme. It helps to remember which colors are opposites when solving the Mini-Cube.

Complete the top face first.	Top Face
This is the easiest way to solve
the Mini-Cube. With the right
twists, you can then complete	Bottom Face
the bottom face without
disturbing the top face.	4

RUBIK’S Mini-Cube has 6 faces. Each one is a different solid color when

the Mini-Cube is solved.

The Mini-Cube is made of 8 smaller cube pieces. All of these have 3 colors and are corner cubes.

Each face can be turned independently. Try it. (Doing this mixes up the cube pieces.)

You can now use different sequences of turns to solve the Mini-Cube. Take the challenge and try it on your own. If you’re stumped, read the rest of this booklet for helpful hints.

There are two kinds of turns: quarter twists and half twists. A quarter twist turns a face 90°. A half twist reverses a face 180°.

Quarter Twist Half Twist

Whenever you twist a cube piece out of position, perform the opposite move if you want to twist it back into position.

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