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From: granvold@tymix.UUCP (Tom Granvold)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Source of 5x5x5 Rubik's Cube
Message-ID: <548@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 20:11:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: tymix.548
Posted: Tue Oct  1 20:11:08 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 06:26:35 EDT
Reply-To: granvold@tymix.UUCP (Tom Granvold)
Distribution: net.math,net.puzzle
Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA
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Summary: 

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    This is in reply to a request from ihnp4!oddjob!matt. I tried to reply
directly back to him but I got back a meesage saying that ihnp4 was unknown.
So I am posting the reply here in hopes that he will see it. If I remember
right it is someone at the Univ. of Chicago. His request was in replay to
an article I had posted about being able to get a 5x5x5 Rubik's Cube and
other unusual variations from a company in Hong Kong. He wanted to know
how trustworthy they are.

     I have mixed feelings about the company. A couple of years ago
I had ordered four differant puzzles over the space of a few months.
I recieved all but one of them. I wrote a letter about the missing one
and received no responce. Now I get a letter from them, claiming that
customs had confiscated a lot of puzzles thinking they were illegal
copies from Tiawan. They say that they have now worked out the problem with
out customs.I first heard of them in an article by Hofstader in 
Sceintific Amercian about three years ago.
     If I had to guest, I'd give an 80% chance of receiving the
puzzle. In any case I have sent my money off for a Skewb. It will
probably take two or three months to get the puzzle. I'll see then what
will happen. Sorry that I can't be more definate about it.

Tom Granvold
ucbvax!allegra!oliveb!tymix!granvold


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