"Magic Maze" Puzzle

 

This puzzle is based on a six tiled magic puzzle,
Combining it with a Rubik's Maze theme, makes things very exciting!

 

Below it is easy to see the solved status of the puzzle.
The black line is continuous along both sides of the Magic Maze.

A six tile magic is definitely different than a four tile or an eight tile magic.
From what I have seen, it behaves quite differently. Moreover, most
of the key positions are 3-d style and should be handled with care, so
I wouldn't recommend it to someone who is just starting to use magics.

 

Below, is the "secret-cube" move, i.e. how to give a cube shape to a six tiled magic.
It is not an easy move, and definitely not for the faint-hearted.
A wrong move might result into some strings coming off!

Many thanks to Juozas Granskas for letting me know that such a move existed
(and was discovered by Guus Razoux Schultz).

A few more notes regarding the above move:

(1) It can be done when the magic-6 is in a similar status to the magic-8 before the "creating the cube" move. (2) In the magic-8, we need to exchange two pairs of lines while going from flat to cube. But since the magic-6 has two tiles less than the magic-8, that gives less flexibility. Performing the above move will then require the exchange of four pairs of strings. Thus, the puzzle is very vulnerable during that exchange, and the lines might come off (but it didn't happen to me yet!). Of course, if the puzzle was built as an open-loop one (instead of the standard closed-loop way), the "secret-cube" move would be very straightforward to do.

To build this puzzle you will need some strings, plastic tiles, and some nice paper tiles.
(of course, there is a UNIQUE solution)

 

 

For information of how to connect/number the tiles and the strings, visit two brilliant articles here and here,
(courtesy of Twisty Puzzles articles).

 

Please let me know of any comments or suggestions. Thanks! :-)

 

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