Does anyone have any *practical* tips for reassembling a 4x4x4 #Rubiks cube?
I've found several articles with pictures that tell me how it fits together, which is great.
But... they all magically get to "fit the internal edges in until it looks like this", and the best I've managed in an hour of fiddling is two of them, which both pinged out in a spray of parts when I tried getting the third one in.
How do you actually do this without flexing the wrong part and having it all explode again?
Hugo Mills
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2026-03-30 12:49:24 UTC
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