Attempting to Solve TRIANGLE Rubik's Cubes (With NO Help)

I thought these would be easy , but I can't solve them .

I got these two cubes in my last unboxing and no , I did not misspeak , they are officially cubes .

This one is just a three by three by three and I cannot do it .

I'm a fraud and this one looked even easier until I got parody .

So today I am not going to stop recording until I have solved both of these because they look like they should be so easy .

Do not work like your typical Rubik's cubes , the top turns how you'd expect , but the sides only turn 180 degrees .

If you turn it 90 degrees , it doesn't turn .

And no , I have not found a way to shape shift this .

I mean , it looks like this should be doable but it's not .

And of course it is a triangle instead of a diamond .

The only difference between these two is that middle layer .

This one is just the same thing .

180 degree turns here and not 90 I guess , but like 120 degree turns up here and again , no shape shifting .

I really want to figure out what is the deal with parity on this cube ?

Why can't I just swap two pieces around because this is not possible on most puzzles .

Oh , actually , no , that makes sense .

These two edge pieces with two colors on them .

You can swap them just like that and it does swap the corners around but the corners are doing a pair of swaps .

Yeah , I think the corners actually you cannot have corner parody but you can have edge parody because you can just swap two edges like that .

Ok .

That's cool .

Let's scramble this up .

I'm gonna restart from the beginning just uh so that I didn't already cheat with the progress from last video .

Alright .

How am I going to approach this ?

Probably just by making the first layer again .

So we have uh that's maybe not .

I'm trying to make the white layer that is not where that goes .

Um OK .

It is so weird working with so little freedom .

These two are the red and green so they need to go right here .

Why ?

Why is that difficult ?

Oh , it's just like that .

OK .

This green piece needs to go here .

Um That's three by three that literally would have worked , but that's not what you do .

OK .

I think you just , you just put that one in first , you do edge pieces first and then corners after just like when you're making a cross on three by three .

this one going into here .

Uh I think , I think we just combined um like that .

Nope , that's the wrong way .

So I'll put it over here instead and then do that perfect .

And now they go , both go in .

Ok .

And then this one going here .

Uh I think how do you do this like that ?

Put them together like that ?

Nice .

And then go in .

Ok .

I was hoping that would just be solved .

I literally just said you can't have corner parody .

So I uh need to understand this thing a little bit better .

How did we arrive at a single corner swap ?

What um the reason I said , I don't think you can have corner parody is because when you do this turn , it's a pair of swaps and a pair of swaps like they go into each other's place .

So that's two swaps , which means a solo swap should not be possible .

Then uh if we turn the top layer , let's see , then we have this one went here , this one went here , this one went here .

So to solve it , I need to swap these two back and then swap these two .

So that's also a pair of swaps .

And I don't understand where a single swap came from is my understanding of parity just fundamentally wrong .

I made an entire video on this .

I better be right .

The only thing that can fit the narrative of me being right is I'm misunderstanding this puzzle , not the concept of parody .

Entirely .

Oh , my .

I think I just figured out why there's corner parody .

Yeah , everything I said was right .

But there's something I didn't consider , which is maybe I saw the white side on the wrong side .

You might be wondering how is that even possible ?

Just turn the whole thing over .

Well , no , um , there is a centerpiece technically .

And this centerpiece , I mean , they're , they're both white so I can't tell the difference .

And , ok , here's what I mean and I've gone through it in my head .

So I promise you this will fix it even though I have not even tried it yet .

What I'm going to do is move all the white pieces to the opposite side and that will fix the issue , I swear .

And the reason this will fix the issue is because if I move the white corners to the other side , then where are all the solved positions ?

Well , this one would go here and then this one would go over here and this one would go over here and the yellow ones would swap back accordingly .

But that is three swaps .

I've swapped pairs of corners three times , which is an odd number , which is how this odd number of swaps managed to show up in the first place .

So if I do that , I will fix it .

Ok , just hear me out .

It sounds crazy , but I'm moving right to the other side .

So , uh we're gonna do this and this .

So we've solved the three edge pieces .

I think that goes in the right order .

So this one needs to go here .

So I'm gonna pair it up with this edge like that and then put it all back in .

All right .

And then this one needs to go here .

So , same thing with the green and uh this can't turn , this one needs to go here .

So , like that , see , I told you , I told you I fixed the corners .

I fixed corner parody , but now we have edge parody .

OK ?

So I think here's what I'm gonna do .

Uh I've noticed that the algorithm that I've been using the 12345 that is putting corners from the top to the bottom that uses three turns on this side , which is an odd number .

So if I put this one back in , wait , let me just check .

Yeah , I've solved edge parity here .

But if I put this one back in , I will just introduce edge parity again .

So what I have to do instead of doing three turns here , I can do six .

And that's just by putting the wrong corner in first and then put the correct corner in afterwards .

So I've already done three turns on the outside .

Now I'm doing six and there we go .

What is the top ?

Just always solved ?

Whatever .

I'm happy with that .

OK ?

Now we're moving on to the harder one and I honestly , I have a theory on how I'm gonna solve this and it's gonna be very similar to what I did on the other one .

So uh let's start by just um , wait a minute , how is this green and red while that center is blue ?

The centers don't move .

Right .

Oh Wait , this actually makes it easier .

It just , it just means it goes on the other side .

So I have put white on the wrong side to begin with .

Um , I just have to move everything over here .

There we go .

And now the corners should be able to match .

So there's my cross and this one goes in here like that and then this one goes in here and this one goes in here , the edges , there's , there are flipped edges .

What ?

That's possible .

Ok .

Anyway , um , we now have a flipped edge .

These two need to swap and flip also and then these two need to swap .

Hm .

Ok .

So there's no parody because I have two swaps .

Uh , but there is a flipped edge and I do not know how to deal with that .

I don't even know how that happens .

Like on a three by three , it's different , right ?

Because on a three by three , if you just do half turns on one side and then quarter turns on the other side , it , it doesn't introduce flipped edges ever .

Ok .

This is harder than I expected .

Let me try a different approach .

So I'm gonna try and solve this like F two L so that these edges don't end up wrong right away .

So we're gonna do that to uh fix that one .

OK .

There's an upside down pair here and I absolutely do not know how to solve this using only R two and L two moves and stuff because on three by three , that's literally impossible .

OK .

I , I think , I think I should take a step back and just ask , how do , how do you even fix this ?

Like why is a flipped edge happening in the first place ?

Because this breaks all my three by three intuition .

So you can't take it out into the top layer , which means all you can do is move it around the middle layers .

Oh Because there's only three sides .

Yeah , if you take an edge all the way around , that's three moves and it flips every time .

So it's , that's , it's an odd number of flips , which is why this one ends up flipped .

But how that was so unexpected .

There are so many things I've taken for granted on a three by three that it doesn't do that when you put it all the way back .

But I never thought about like , oh it's not the fact that you're doing double moves that is stopping edges from flipping .

It's because there are four sides .

So it takes four flips to come all the way back and four flips , you know , is the same as no flips also , squares look weird .

No .

OK .

So if I want this one here , that means I need to move this away .

Move it there , move it back and then perhaps move all that back .

Oh This is getting messy because it's messing up everything that I've made here .

So I've sold all the middle layer edges , but at what cost I've come back to having the cross done .

Uh I think that that is probably the easier way to go .

But what I'm gonna do during that is make sure that I don't end up flipping any of the edges .

Uh So here's what I mean .

Um If I want to move this one into here , then the algorithm that I do that goes like R two and whatever , like that's gonna swap these two edges because I do R two an odd number of times .

But if I do this side with L two because it's symmetrical , I can do the L two version as well , then it's going to swap these two and that's bad because this one gets put here and then if it ever gets put back here , it's gonna be flipped .

So I think I'll do it with these two and then uh these two need to swap at some point , but I need to put two corners in .

00 no , no , no , I just had such a big brain idea .

OK .

OK .

Here's what we're gonna do .

Um I have two corners to put in right two corners , which means um I'm gonna have a middle swap twice , but I only need one more middle swab or three more middle swabs because 123 and they're still solved .

So we're gonna do a useless corner first like that .

Now , the middle salt and I have two of these left to go so I can put this one in here and then for this one going into here , I can just do it left handed so that it is swapping these two instead of these two or actually the whole left hand right hand thing is not necessary .

I could just like kind of keyhole it , you know what ?

We'll do it right handed as well .

But like this like this so that it swaps these two .

OK .

Nice .

I've done the first two layers in the last layer .

I have a U perm .

So I simply do the U perm algorithm .

Hm OK .

It's not the same as the three edge cycle on three by three because I can just solve them all .

And now the corners are out of place .

So , so it's , it's one way or the other , pick your poison .

I don't know which of these would be easier to solve .

Conceptually .

Wow , things , things are just coming to me .

No , no , no .

I , I think I got this .

I'm gonna do this the corners way because uh I'm pretty sure I can just do some commentator idea .

Stuff .

It's not a , I don't , I don't know , maybe it is commentators but no , it's kind of like Megami last layer .

If you know how to solve a Megami , I think you might be able to guess what I'm about to do next .

And this is why it's so good to know how to solve many puzzles because uh all of the knowledge can come in handy .

So I'm gonna take out this corner and then I'm gonna uh what corner was that ?

Green , blue ?

So I'm gonna move green blue over and put it back in .

Um I think the reverse of that algorithm is just that algorithm again .

So it is its own inverse .

There we go .

And then we're going to move on to the next one and put this one in and then we're gonna move to the next one and put this one here .

Please tell me that worked if that worked .

Yes .

These two puzzles were so unexpectedly difficult because this like double turn on one side and single turn on another side and you know , corner pieces , edge pieces .

This is my jam .

I know exactly how to do this stuff because that is really similar to three by three .

And the double turn stuff is very similar to square one which I am a beast at .

But the number of problems I ran into because there are three sides instead of four is astounding .

So let's do a time solve on both of these .

Let's begin according to this , we need a green right here and a red right here .

Ok .

And , uh , we're gonna put this corner in and , uh , doing finger tricks on .

This is very strange .

Ok .

What do we got ?

Whoa , a PLL , excuse me , edge parody ?

Ok .

Uh , wait Corner parody ?

No , no , no , I need to turn this whole thing upside down .

So , uh , this needs to go with that .

And then , so we're doing the yellow side again , but just on the other side because I ran , ran into parody corner parody specifically , which means you have to switch which side each color goes on .

Oops , I messed up .

Oh , this is so difficult edge parody .

Ok .

So , um I'm , what did I do for edge parody ?

Uh We unsolved a corner and then we solve the wrong corner .

It's probably a faster way to do this , but this is just the way I figured out and we solve that corner again .

And it , it's just all we solved at the end 1 12 .

If I don't run into a lot of problems on this one , I literally could beat that .

So during my inspection , I have discovered that if I move the blue here , then this corner , like once you move it down here , the red will be on the wrong side .

So that means white goes on this side .

And if I memorize the color scheme , I probably would not have an issue like I would just know it goes red and blue .

Uh which is great and the green and red , that's the opposite of the normal color scheme .

Anyway .

Let's do this .

So there's the white cross uh done wrong , the head start .

But , oh , I got some stuff solved there .

Ok .

Now , uh um this needs to go all the way around .

Uh That's annoying .

Uh ok .

No , no , no , that's good .

That's good .

Ok , then we're gonna solve this corner here and then we're gonna solve this corner here .

Oh , yes , that , that , that's really good .

That's really good .

Ok .

And then we're gonna solve this corner here , but putting it on this side so that these two edges will swap and stay solved .

Nice .

Nice , nice .

And uh what did we do here ?

We did that and then Megami .

OK .

And move over again , move over again .

Oh , wow .

Ok .

Yes , I actually beat it according to the WC A regulations .

If a piece with only one color pops out .

That is OK .

You know , these puzzles are fun .

We switched from squares to triangles and at first I thought they were cute , but then I got a life lesson about checking my assumptions and that is why we should never stop cubing .