Talk:Rubik's Cube achievement

• Support - Good clean Geohashing-geeky-classic fun! Thepiguy 20:34, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
• Needs work - I don't find a single, particular puzzle to be achievement-worthy enough.. but maybe we could make this a challenge. The first claimant must solve a rubik's cube and a second puzzle of his choice. This second puzzle becomes the challenge for the next claimant. And so on. -- relet 01:55, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
  • I don't think this would work well, because there are few puzzles as widely known as the Rubik's cube. DNO the original idea. --HiroProtagonist 21:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
  • I don't think this would work well either, but I agree that a single puzzle isn't enough. I haven't solved a Rubiks Cube myself, but I suppose it is trivial once you "get it". Solving one for the first time at a hashpoint (maybe frozen and/or underwater) would be more impressive, yet impossible to verify. --The ru 15:37, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
    • Perhaps timing could be involved, to prevent this becoming trivial? And i don't mean this as "get into the top 3 worldwide", but beat your own previous best time! ;-)
    • As for other puzzles, i can't think of any that's as ubiquitous as "the world's top-selling puzzle game"... Maybe any kind of assembly puzzle would do, but what are the chances of such a puzzle being available? -- CrystyB 04:09, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
      • You might just find one along the way :P -> File:2009-09-22_48_8_Puzzle.jpg (the challenge is to make a T out of these parts. For size comparison: The photo covers about 2 m²) --Ekorren 11:46, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose because it's offtopic and I don't see how it makes the expedition more interesting or challenging. Those who currently are into that puzzle will claim the achievement, those who aren't will just ignore it (or, if they are achievement completionists, call it an annoyance). It won't ever get someone to do an expedition that would have been skipped otherwise, it is not about the location, not about travelling, and not about meetups. A gratuitous ribbon is fine for that, if you want one, but I wouldn't call it an achievement. --Ekorren 11:46, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
  • You're mostly right, but the "more interesting" part is subjective (some people do have fun with a Rubik's), and maybe there's a 0.1% chance of someone going on an expedition if they see someone else planning to get this achievement, on the idea of asking for pointers and/or being taught and/or exchanging solving techniques... -- CrystyB 14:43, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
    • I don't doubt that people have fun with a Rubik's, but I do not think it adds experience or fun to the expedition. Rather it does the opposite: It keeps you from exploring the location. The other part of your argument applies to basically everything you could ever do anywhere just the same. --Ekorren 11:58, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

• Needs Work - Perhaps a record, fastest solve at at a hash? The biggest problem I see is that it would be hard to prove that it is a legitimate solve. Eylrid 20:04, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose - This is just another "thing to do at a hashpoint". There is nothing in my mind which separates this from playing a game of hopscotch at the hashpoint, or sending someone an e-mail. This itself has nothing to do with geohashing. By all means, if you want to, solve a Rubik's cube (or similar cube puzzle), and post pictures/videos of it! Have fun at the hashpoint, that's kinda the whole point. However, we shouldn't have achievements for doing fun things at the hashpoint unless they directly add to the social aspect of geohashing (i.e. spreading the idea), or change the way the geohash is reached. --aperfectring 16:14, 27 September 2011 (EDT)

• Oppose. As others have mentioned, this is just a "do X at the point" achievement and doesn't really add any challenge - those who can solve a Rubik's Cube will find this easy, those who cannot won't bother trying. This could have been a needs work regarding some of the suggested changes, but those changes would just make it an entirely new achievement. A gratuitous ribbon would be better for this. --KerrMcF (talk) 23:46, 19 May 2024 (UTC)