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EQUIPMENT:

• A standard Rubik’s Cube.
• 2-4 players.

HOW TO PLAY:

• Scramble the cube such that there are no rows, columns, or diagonals of the same color on at least one of the sides. (Figure 1)
• Pick a side of the cube. This will be the “tic tac toe” board, aka your playing field.
• Each player may pick a color, and a turn order.
  • It is recommended that if two people are playing, they pick colors that usually oppose each other in a solved cube (eg: yellow/white, blue/green, red/orange).
  • A standard turn order would be youngest to oldest, for example.
• Players will take turns:
  1. They may do one 90 degree turn of one layer on the cube on any side. Turning the middle layer of the cube is allowed as a single move as well.
     • i.      Layers of the cube are defined as a 1-cube plane of the cube.
  2. Once one person enacts the turn, the next player may not undo that move immediately in the next turn by turning it the opposite way.
  3. A person wins when they manage to get a row/column/diagonal of their own color on the playing field. (Figure 2)

ALTERNATIVE RULES:

• Level Playing Ground: Start with a solved side, with the other sides scrambled. The picked color cannot be the original color of the board, nor the opposite color.
• Sic Sac Soe: All sides count as your playing field. (good luck)