When you have an “L” shape, where the two yellow pieces showing are adjacent one another.

If you are in a hurry you can speed up the process by doing two jumps at once with this: To transform the Magic Cube from one state to the other, you have to apply the following short algorithm, watching out for the L shape and the line to be positioned as required: If the edges are solved in a plus shape like the cross we made at the start (the last image), you can skip this stage.īeside the solved cross you can also have a “Dot”, an “L” shape or a “Line” as pictured above. These are the four possible edge positions that you can have:ĭo this to transfrom to the next state: F R U R' U' F' Either none, all, or two of the edges will already be oriented correctly (the yellow part is facing up). The next will move these pieces around and thus solve the cube. In this step will orient all of the pieces so that the yellow face is facing up for all of them.

We're going to solve the top layer edges in two steps. 2/3 of the puzzle is solved, and every piece left to be solved has yellow on it somewhere.