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structure emerges from chaos at 23,738,673,083,197,685,761 & 34,677,398,788,068,093,945

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Took me a hell of a lot more moves than that (30 septendecillion) for structure to emerge from chaos with paperclips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Paperclips

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

  Universal Paperclips
  • a game by Frank Lantz
  • combat programming by Bennett Foddy
  'Riversong' by Tonto's Expanding Headband used by kind permission of Malcolm Cecil
  > © 2017 Everybody House Games I

  Paperclips: 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

True! How did you spot this though? Did you look at every possible position?!?

user mlni is right. I can solve a cube IRL, and these patterns are easily derivable from the solved state with only a few twists. There is an R' button in the upper right that let's the user enter scramble commands, so I manually entered them, and landed on these Permutation IDs.

Excellent! Thanks for the info!

I bet they entered the scramble U2 D2 R2 L2 F2 B2 or something to that effect. My 9yo loves this pattern.

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