The Rubik

The Rubik's Revenge was a puzzle introduced in the early 80's after the big Rubik's Cube craze. Instead of the usual 3x3x3 design the Revenge has 4 cubes on every side. This adds some interestingqualities to the cube. On the Revenge you can switch two centers and leave the rest of the cube solved. However on the Rubik's Cube you can't switch just two centers, the minimum that you can switch onthe Rubik's Cube is four. You also have to not only solve the centers on a Rubik's Revenge but you have to put them in the right spots. My method for solving the Revenge is complete and has no holes init so you will be able to solve your Rubik's Revenge every time from any legal scrambled position.

In this method I will assume that you can already solve the Rubik's Cube (3x3x3). If you cannotsolve the original Rubik's Cube then you will only be able to half solve your Rubik's Revenge. If you need to learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube then click here to go back to my Rubik's Cube page.Basics
First lets get to know what the different parts of the cube are called. One side of the cube is called a face. There are six faces on the cube, front, back, down, up, left, and right. Thewhole section that is attached to each face that you can turn is called a slice. The Individual pieces are corners, edge pieces, and center pieces.

Notation
In order for me to be able to tell youspecific moves to do on your cube you'll need to be able to read what I'm saying. The notation I will be using looks like this, F f B b L l R r U u D d. Capital letters stand for the outer faces such asthe front face, back face, down face, etc. Lower case letters stand for the faces just behind the outer ones, such as the inner front face, inner back face, inner down face, etc. Here are a fewdiagrams to show were each face is and how each can turn. The faces turn on the dark lines.
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When doing the moves a letter by itself means a clockwise move. R would mean to turn the right face...