The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

• Published in 2025
• Added on 2025-08-20

I was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble.

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@article{TheRubiksCubePerfectScramble,
	key = {TheRubiksCubePerfectScramble},
	type = {article},
	title = {The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble},
	author = {Bryan Wolf},
	abstract = {I was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side.

But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2025-08-20},
	date_published = {2025-11-27},
	urls = {https://www.solutionslookingforproblems.com/post/the-rubik-s-cube-perfect-scramble},
	collections = {fun-maths-facts,the-groups-group},
	url = {https://www.solutionslookingforproblems.com/post/the-rubik-s-cube-perfect-scramble},
	year = 2025,
	urldate = {2025-08-20}
}