A Working 5D Rubik's Cube

Melinda Green writes "Readers who enjoyed the previous Slashdot postings regarding the 4-dimensional Rubik's cube called MagicCube4D will be interested to know that a couple of brilliant developers have recently created a working 5-dimensional Rubik's cube. Operating a 5 dimensional puzzle projected all the way down to a 2D computer screen may seem a hopeless task but the full 5D puzzle has already been solved by 3 people. Also noteworthy is the fact that the 4D puzzle has now been ported to Java and is available as both a full-featured desktop application and as an Applet."

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One of five ever made

[xkr]

This is not off-topic, I think.

I have one of only five (so I was told) ever made, real, 3-dimensional, physical, 5x5x5 Rubic's cube.

The original is 3x3x3. For a while you could buy a 4x4x4. For people who learned to solve the 3x3x3 (see other postings this thread) the 4x4x4 was only a "little bit harder." However, last time I heard, no human was "even close to solving" the 5x5x5.

This staggeringly complex device was invented by a brilliant guy named Scott Matthews, who lives in Yelm, WA.

I would like to suggest to the nerdy multi-dimensional java and .net guys: Make a computerized version of the 3D 5x5x5, and see how people respond to that.

In case anybody cares.