This puzzle is a exchange puzzle by Steve Kemp for the International Puzzle Party 28 held in Prague, Czech Republic 2008
Description:
The Colour Cube consist of 24 magnetic tiles & base cube.
Each tile has a black square & 3 colours from blue, green, red & yellow.
All 24 permutations of 3 from 4 colours are included in the colouring of these tiles.
Goal:
Puzzle No. 1*
Place the 24 magnetic tiles on the base cube so that adjacent colours MATCH.
Colours must match across the 4 central squares of each edge.
Colours must match in the 4 central squares of each face.
Colours must match for the 3 squares at each vertex.
*Try finding the only solution where each face has 4 black, 3 blue, 3 green, 3 red & 3 yellow squares.
Puzzle No. 2
Place the 24 magnetic tiles on the base cube so that adjacent colour DO NOT MATCH edgewise. It does not matter if colours match ‘diagonally’.
Packaging: Cardboard box.
Preliminary estimate of shipping costs from the Netherlands.
Netherlands: from 0 - 2 kg, max. approx $ 12.00
Europe 1: from 0 - 2 kg, max. approx $ 23.00 to Belgium, Germany, France, (incl. Corsica and Monaco), Italy (excl. San Marino and Vatican City), Luxembourg, Spain (incl. Balearic Islands, excl. Canary Islands).
Europe 2: (rest of Europe) from 0 - 2 kg, max. approx. $ 30.00 to all other countries in Europe (excl. Russia).
ROW (rest of the world): from 0 - 2 kg, max. approx $ 43.00 – to all other countries (incl. Russia).
The final shipping cost will be determined when the item is closed.
And if more items are sold to the same address, the average shipping cost per item will be lower.