Dude, use a screwdriver to pry it apart, and then reassemble it with a hammer. Yes, I've done this before.

I wouldn't suggest peeling the stickers. then you can never solve it, spending hours and hours, toiling, frustrated... oh, screw that, yeah, just peel the damn stickers off.

I had no talent with those, ever.

some day you can be a speed cubist?

[Edited on Jun 16, 2004 12:33PM]

[rambling rubik's ruminations]
I never could do the rubik's cube at all... but it never really fascinated me enough to try it too hard either. I'm glad it never did because I expect I would have slowly dragged myself through the phases of rational/mathematical into inuitive/spiritual and finally ended up at the realistic/pratical, just as you report. (Psst to dmpsi: You put the stickers back on afterwards so that it looks solved and then you never touch it again )

Interesting side notes:
- I had a related, practical type of cheating solution for
Rubik's Magic. I let my friend figure it out and then learned from him how to switch between it's two states with lightning speed entirely by rote.

- Last weekend I encountered and even more frustrating Rubik puzzle: Rubik's Homer Head. Seems that with only 4 sections of hemi-hemi-homer-head it should be simpler. I saw a man who'd solved the cube mathematically long ago run into unending trouble trying to track his moves and operations with Homer's constantly mutating head looking back at him. Downside: No stickers to peel off... where is MisterSatan's toolbox?
[/rambling rubik's ruminations]

i've got my original official rubic's cube solution book right here
but now i can't find my cube.
can we get cube-geek together sometime when i get back from ny?

hit those stickers, man. it's the only way. I took one apart back in the 80's too... that might even be a better solution, 'cause the stickers don't always go back on real well... so if you take it apart and put it back together, it doesn't look like you took the stickers off!

Ssshhhhhh

My method as well. Why think outside the box, when you can smash the box and put it back together

the lesson of the rubik's cube is that for every pointless endeavour of intelligence, there is the simplicity of reason to ingeniously cheat and move on to something more self-gratifying.

i got to three sides once, like last year.

i miss you a bit.

i have no clue what your all your base are belong to us group is about what so ever
but fuck if that is not the funniest photoshop EVER
!!!!!
*dies out laughing rolling all over the floor nearly pissing himself*

my mom says I used to able to do those things really, really well when I was about seven or eight ...but, alas, 14 years of not practicing kind of puts a damper in your ability to do something very well...