Abstract: A method of gradually revealing an image using cube puzzles is provided. A first image is divided into a plurality of blocks. Each block can have one or more arbitrary colors. A second image is then generated from the first image where each block of the second image corresponds to one or more blocks of the first image. The blocks of the second image are unicolor blocks with colors that are selected from one of the six colors of a cube puzzle. Groups of adjacent blocks of the second image with the same number of rows and columns as the sides of the cube puzzles are assigned to participants to match to the color of the blocks on the sides of their cube puzzles. Once each participant matches the colors of an assigned region on a side of the corresponding cube puzzle, the matched region is reveled to all participants.

Abstract: An automated method of solving a cube puzzle using a user device, including: establishing, between the user device and the cube puzzle, a wireless communication link, where the user device includes at least one user interface (UI) element and the cube puzzle includes a controller and associated memory; receiving, at the user device, a current state of the cube puzzle, the cube puzzle including multiple faces, each face having multiple sub-elements, where the current state of the cube puzzle specifies a location of each sub-element; identifying, at the user device, based on the current state, a solution for the cube puzzle; and providing, via the UI element(s), an instruction from the solution including an indication of a sub-element of the sub-elements of a particular face of the cube puzzle and an indication of a direction of rotation of the particular sub-element.

Abstract: A cube puzzle solver includes: a position sensing element; at least one user interface (UI) output; and a controller that receives position information from the position sensing element, determines a suggested move, and directs the at least one UI output to provide an indication associated with the suggested move. An automated method of determining a position of a cube puzzle solver includes: monitoring a set of sense pins; identifying rotation based on a change in state of at least one sense pin; identifying a face associated with the identified rotation; and updating a state of the cube puzzle solver based on the identified face and the identified rotation. A cube puzzle system includes: a cube puzzle device including: a wireless communication interface; and a user device communicatively coupled to the cube puzzle solver over the wireless communication interface.