Draft:2x2x3 Tower Rubik's Cube

The Tower cube (Also called the "Slim tower') is a variation of the popular combination puzzle, the Rubik's cube. It was invented by Katsuhiko Okomoto in the early 2000s and was first mass produced in 2009 by the company Gentosha.

A 2x2x3 Rubik's cube, called the tower cube.

Mechanism

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The cube is comprised of 8 corner pieces and 4 edge pieces. This low amount of parts causes this puzzle to only have 241,920 permutations. Each permutation only needing 14 moves or less to solve.

Records

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Name Time References
Cube Algo 1.14 seconds https://youtu.be/IRoPvbNO8Pw?si=zlD2mPFmZJsR-GaO
Sohma Furihata 1.43 seconds https://www.grubiks.com/puzzles/tower-cube-2x2x3/
808CUBES 3.66 seconds https://youtu.be/5YkoQmW5eN8?si=cMedVnchogINPB7i
AlphaCubing 7.49 seconds https://youtu.be/-kVxWZd2u4U?si=qxdFYcSstY4Xyy9C

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