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Cubit

Scramble. Solve. Do it again.

An animated 3×3 cube, a race against the clock and a solver that can help with the scrambled cube in your hands.

BBC Micro

See it in action
03Illustrated scrambled three-by-three puzzle cube on a wooden desk at sunset, beside a beige 1980s home computer, a stopwatch and a notebookCubitCube puzzle & solver
Box / poster artwork concept · View poster

A different kind of twist.

Turn an isometric 3×3 cube using standard move notation. Every turn is animated, so you can see what changed rather than trying to remember it.

Scramble the cube, make your first move and the clock starts. Put it right and the clock stops. The best time stays with you for the session.

Bring your own puzzle

Have a scrambled cube on your desk? Enter its colours and Cubit checks whether the arrangement is possible. If it is, the solver takes you through a solution one stage at a time.

Follow along with the real cube in your hands, advance when you’re ready, and go back a stage if you get ahead of yourself.

Learn the moves

Use U, R, F, D, L, B for the six faces, an apostrophe for an anticlockwise turn, and 2 for a double turn. The on-screen view can rotate too, so you can inspect the cube from another angle.

From the machine

See it in action.

Screenshots are emulator captures shown through MAME's CRT shader.
Select one to enlarge it, then choose Clean for the original capture.

BBC Micro

Game released · shop opening soon

BBC Micro Model B. DFS disc edition.

Cubit on the BBC Micro showing an isometric coloured puzzle cube and move instructions
Gameplay / BBC Micro
Cubit title screen on BBC Micro
Title screen / BBC Micro

Controls Space: title to menu. 1: play. U R F D L B: face turns, then Return. S: scramble. X Y Z: rotate view. P: pause. Escape: title.

Digital edition: SSD disc image. Physical format: 5.25-inch floppy.

Shown through a CRT shader (crt-geom-deluxe).The original emulator capture.