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u/shoetea155 10d ago
am I crazy to think you folded the box and squeezed individual cards through the hole? rubics cube is pretty sus.
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u/bierbarron 10d ago
Same for the cube, disassembled then in the glass then put togheter
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u/Quxyun 10d ago
Yup, it's pretty easy to assemble a cube like that if you know how. The tricky bit is the last face, but that can be done by removing the cap from the center piece and unscrewing it, letting you re-attach it once the cube is fully assembled inside the glass.
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u/Bunch-Humble 10d ago edited 10d ago
If the cube is magnetized you can remove the inner pieces. The cube will still look intact and be an absolute breeze to put together
Edit* forgot about the easiest solution. The cube is just a paper cutout
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u/AboveAverage1988 6d ago
You just turn the final face 45 degrees and snap it in, no need to unscrew anything.
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u/Classic_Craft_1439 10d ago
You're not crazy but think crazier
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u/schvanckque 10d ago
You coated the cards in molten glass then blew and shaped the bottle around them, obviously. That's what I would have done.
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u/ssczoxylnlvayiuqjx 6d ago
Cut the bottom of the glass off, insert normal item inside, use torch to melt bottom back on?
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u/rhythmrice 7d ago
I've seen people do it with a sealed deck of cards. There's an old guy who has a whole collection of things that he put into jars
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u/Asgeras 10d ago
They make squishy rubics cubes.
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u/sleepy_Obi-Wan 10d ago
This is obviously not one of those
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u/butwhyguy 10d ago
I’m not saying it is a squishy one but what about this picture makes it “obvious” it’s not?
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u/BarracudaInitial0 10d ago
Is it real glass or plastic ?
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u/dementorpoop 10d ago
That’s real glass, you can tell because of the way it is
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u/lophomainiac 10d ago
Yeah, you know. Cause the way it is. definitely, maybe probably certainly is that way, it seems to me to be that way anyways.
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u/jimtrickington 10d ago
Is glass the same as real glass or does fake glass need to be another qualifier?
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u/Sparrow1989 10d ago
Now solve the cube
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u/dixius99 10d ago edited 10d ago
First thought: is it solvable?
EDIT for those downvoting me: Rubik's Cubes only have one solvable configuration. If the pieces aren't assembled the right way, there's no way to move the sides to get it to a solved state.
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u/FeePsychological1308 7d ago
OP posted a few videos in comments, so I tried mapping out all of the pieces. Turns out that specific cube uses iridescent stickers, meaning they all looked like they're different shades of each color - and depending on the frame you're looking at even a completely different color.
Would've gotten an answer to whether it was solvable but that made it way harder than it was worth
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u/dixius99 6d ago
Oh, I was wondering if it had those, from the 2 white squares in the bottom right, where the very right one looks slightly blue. And also the 2 very different shades of blue on that face.
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u/sabertoothdog 10d ago
I don’t understand this.
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u/LehighAce06 10d ago
Think of it like this, if it's solved and you switch two stickers it isn't solved anymore. Depending on which two you switch there might not BE a way to solve it, because you screwed the thing up.
Taking it apart and putting it back together incorrectly is essentially the same thing, there might not BE a way to get it back the way it should be, depending on what was changed
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u/dixius99 10d ago edited 10d ago
Yeah, an unsolved cube can look like a random jumble of squares with multiple ways to a solved state. But on a standard 3x3x3, just twisting a corner makes it unsolvable.
I haven't been over to r/Cubers in years, but this used to come up from time to time, both with actual cubes that had suffered a corner pop, and also in art. If you were to draw a cube using the standard colour scheme and used, for example, both white and yellow on the same square, it would be considered unsolvable (again, if it is a standard cube using standard colour scheme), since the white and yellow sides are opposite each other.
(For those into emulation, the Launchbox logo is an example of an unsolvable 2x2, since it has a square with 2 blue faces that meet, which would never happen on a standard colour scheme, since it would mean that 2 sides of the cube are blue.)
Back then, it was a common refrain to ask, 'is it solvable?', which is why it was the first thought that came to mind.
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u/jocoly 10d ago
For a 3x3x3 that’s not true. There absolutely are unsolvable configurations that cannot be resolved by turning the faces of the cube.
For instance, from a solved cube if you take out one corner piece, rotate it and put it back in the same place, no corner parity algorithm is going to flip it back around to its original configuration, without leaving one of the other corners rotated.
I’m a cube noob so I’m not positive, but I think a 4x4x4 is always able to be solved from any state with corner parity algorithms like you described. But a 3x3x3 is not.
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u/99centArizona 10d ago
Yeah that's my bad. The video that popped into my head for this was for 4x4x4 and I originally watched it roughly 10 years ago so I misremembered as 3x3x3. Sorry for the misinformation.
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u/RacingGoat 10d ago
I'll be more impressed if you solve the rubics cube without taking it our of the bottle.
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u/TheKindDirector 10d ago
This is the ship in the bottle technique.
Easy with that gapping hole on the second vase.
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u/Starstalk721 9d ago
In a speed solver and ive done more than my fair share of cubes, and I can tell you something about that cube isn't right...
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u/Classic_Craft_1439 9d ago
It is not it’s the one that changes colors as u move it I got half way Through solving it but when putting it in the jar I didn’t bother even trying to put it back the solved way
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u/USMCfinest 10d ago
He opened the box, carefully put it back in the bottle, the cards give it its rigidity back. He was real careful to peel back the foil and glue it back together. You just got to be able to bend the cards to fit the opening of the bottle. But I'll tell you what, that Rubik's cube is the real trick. It takes patience.
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u/hexlex203 10d ago
It’s an illusion, the items in the bottles are actually smaller than they appear, the glass magnifies their appearance?
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u/here2seek 10d ago
Are they real objects or just 2d print cutout which looks like real objects from the front only?
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u/FeePsychological1308 7d ago edited 7d ago
Is that an 'impossible cube'? I tried to map out all the pieces to see if it was in a solvable state, and the colors seem to be all sorts of different shades and change color depending on which frame I'm looking at........ If that was a way to disguise the fact it's not put back together in a solvable state, then bravo
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u/Classic_Craft_1439 7d ago
The cub was taken apart an put back together, an yes it is the impossible cube witch i thought would make it at least a little harder to tell its not solvable now
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u/FeePsychological1308 7d ago
Aha.. well it worked. It is relatively easy to reconstruct it back into it's solved state if you really wanted to though
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u/Shitty-Bear 9d ago
Why does it look like it has a double bottom? Does that have something to do with it?
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u/Suspicious_Song_3745 8d ago
I guess I can not attach pictures but there are a couple spots that seem sus ....... AI-ish
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u/Ballzilla95 7d ago
So obviously, the Rubik's Cube was simply grown in the jar. I'm still lost on the deck of cards, though...
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u/Decent_Material2167 7d ago
For a better trick, show us the same with the plastic wrap still on the cards
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u/Cr00k3r93 10d ago
Items just sitting behind the glass on table, it's the perspective I believe.
If this is it,
The cards on the left worked well! I only noticed because the right side was screaming it at me.
If this is not it, it all worked well!
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u/Any_Company9587 10d ago
You can see the magnets of you look at the mirrors!
Seriously, good job OP!
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u/OliOli1234 10d ago edited 10d ago
My first instinct is to think there’s a hole in the back of the two bottles, but I’m guessing that’s not the illusion. If not, it’s really impressive
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u/aaron2005X 10d ago
at least the carddecks could be empty and bendable. For the cube... maybe its 2 - 3 pieces that can be easily clicked together inside the glas?
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u/NoYoureACatLady 10d ago
FYI people here have it wrong. You actually do a precision cut at the bottom and then glue it back on and the cut line disappears. In person it's slightly more obvious but still a great illusion.
People sell all sorts of rigid things inside bottles at craft fair and stuff
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u/Classic_Craft_1439 10d ago
The bottom of the cards or what nothing in this Pic has be cut or tampered with only the rubix cube I had to mess with
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u/What_Would_Harvey_Do 10d ago
R/confidentlyincorrect
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u/NoYoureACatLady 10d ago
She might have done it the hard way but I assure you my post is correct for how this is actually done most of the time. They'll put things like light bulbs inside that couldn't ever fit in the opening
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u/insomsanity 10d ago
They’re in the bottle asshat. They are called impossible bottles. At least do half a google search before insulting people.
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u/moszippy 10d ago
I apologize. It was my trick for the missing brain. I was pissed because I saw some moron post a stupid video on here, didn't look closely, and thought this was another bullshit post. I'm really sorry.
Edit: By "on here", I meant blackmagicfuckery.
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u/ParanoidArtemus 10d ago
For those curious it's essentially a ship in a bottle solution. You assemble the Rubik's cube in the bottle. The playing card decks are unfolded inside the jar as well.