The Challenge
I was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. Here’s one way to do it:
But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble. No matter how many different moves I made, I couldn’t do it. Every time I separated two squares with the same color, two other squares of the same color would touch somewhere else.
Looking for an easy answer, I went to puzzling.stackexchange.com and found this question:
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