Molecube: The Colorful Sudoku Puzzle Cube

It's a Rubik's Cube and a Sudoku Puzzle!

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If you’re a passionate puzzler, you’re always looking around for the next worthy mental test. Feast your mind on the Molecube, a brain-busting blend of a Rubik’s Cube and a Sudoku puzzle that’s a challenge all its own.

Each of the cube’s six sides is comprised of a 3x3 grid of colored spheres. To solve the Molecube, arrange the spheres so that each side contains all nine colors.

The rows turn easily in your hands, and the pieces give a satisfying click as they set into place. Relish the challenge as you try to solve this colorful combination of classic brain teasers.

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[vat]

No, you cannot solve the Molecube like a Rubik's Cube or solve a Rubik's Cube like the Molecube. Molecube is composed of nine different colors of spheres distributed over six sides of a cube. Instead of arranging the colors by side like in a Rubik’s Cube, your goal is to have one piece of every color represented on each side. Molecube does not have enough pieces of each color to fill a side with a single color; Rubik's Cube does not have enough different colors.

[MCKoolperson]

As an OSU student, I can confirm that wearing a red shirt is the surest way to a beating.

[disoraj]

0:17 you know this man is serious when he's multitasking

[CAmadeusA]

I'll save you a click. - It's $20.

[goldacidanimations]

"Dude... we're crimson, and you're wearing straight-up scarlet."

"What is that, a Rutgers' fan???"

[TFvizkouz]

feel of rubiks cube, logic of sudoku


*brain explodes* 😱

[izzy]

Wow. Mistaking scarlet for crimson? Disgusting.

[luvw.]

"the pieces satisfyingly turn and click into place" yes we all know how good clicking mechanisms are (v cubes, )

[ryanhwang]

I feel bad for that guy who got the hate

[smoceany]

non cuber's: ill scramble so that no side has the same colors twice

[timaeusTestifiedwashere]

If I got one I might regret it




I WILL RIP THE THING APART

[hendrik]

the only problem for Vat19 is tjat the products are WAY too expensive

[cslayer]

If it comes solved you can solve it like a Rubik’s cube if you memorise the positions

[WhiteGinger]

I have one and it is by far an extremely captivating puzzle. Both by it's solution and by the clicking sound. It is definitely worth to buy it!

[saylormcnally]

My mom got me this for Christmas and I thought it was just like a normal Rubio cube so I sat in my room trying to figure it out but then I counted the colors and was confused why there was 9 colors so I looked it up and now I'm finding this

[olibii_]

Totally awesome. Thank you so much for being one of the best channels ever!!!

[Chrnan]

To all the commenters thinking you can, you can't use this as a regular Rubi*k's* Cube. This is because each side has nine balls on it, but there are only two or three balls of each color, so it is impossible to fill up any side. Also, each ball that isn't a center affects two or more sides (an edge exists on two sides) at a time, so it is impossible for two adjacent sides to have completely different colors. Imagine trying to make two adjacent sides completely different colors (which has already been shown to be impossible, since there aren't nine balls of any color). This is impossible, due to there being two corners and an edge (which each are one color) existing on both of the two sides.

You can't solve a regular Rubik's Cube like a Molecube, either, because you can't change what stickers each piece has. A red, white, and green corner will always be red, white, and green since the entire piece can only move as one, and pieces can't swap stickers (unless you peel stickers, which defeats the purpose). Also, a Rubik's Cube has only six colors, while each side has nine stickers, so it's impossible to have one of each color on every side, since there aren't enough colors.

If you still don't believe me, try to solve the Molecube to have each side be a different color. Or, try to solve a Rubik's cube to have only one of each color on each side. Good luck.

[WOLF-cogi]

Already have hard time with Rubik's cube, now you want me to play this....

[c_lettuce]

Hey Vat19, I didn't skip the ad at the beginning of the video, so now you can have nice things.

[rubikthegeek]

"The pieces satisfyingly turn and click."

As a cuber, I can assure you that this is the opposite of a selling point.