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XCube is a 3D cross-platform Rubik's Cube sim - Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Aug 7th 2009
I haven't owned a Rubik's Cube for ages, and the last one I had was in pretty rough shape. Like a lot of young kids in the 80s I sometimes got myself out of a jam by peeling off the stickers and rearranging them.
So as I was looking around for a Time Waster to share with you all today, I came across XCube. It's a 3D Rubik's Cube simulator written in Java, so it will run on any system with the JRE installed. Twist and turn the cube using your mouse to solve the puzzle. You can customize the colors to your liking, and save a game to pick it up later on - handy when you realize that you missed a deadline five minutes ago while you were playing.
Unfortunately there's no way to virtually peel off the stickers. Curse you, virtual reality!
So as I was looking around for a Time Waster to share with you all today, I came across XCube. It's a 3D Rubik's Cube simulator written in Java, so it will run on any system with the JRE installed. Twist and turn the cube using your mouse to solve the puzzle. You can customize the colors to your liking, and save a game to pick it up later on - handy when you realize that you missed a deadline five minutes ago while you were playing.
Unfortunately there's no way to virtually peel off the stickers. Curse you, virtual reality!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
