Finding Your Daisy

If you want to solve a Rubik’s Cube, the first step is to find a daisy. The Rubik’s Cube itself has 43 quintillion combinations (20 digits) and no idea what a daisy is. A daisy is simply a first step of a model of something incredibly complicated. To make sense of things that are too complicated for us, we have to create a picture of the world. Something imperfect to help us narrow down the choices. Once you have a daisy, you can line the white petals up with the centre piece of the same colour and pick them off (rotate them all the way around). That will give you a white cross. Then you put the corner piece (two colours plus white) directly above where you want it with the white cross facing down. Repeat a “righty” (Move the right side forward, top forward, right back, top back) till the piece is correctly positioned. That’s step one. The bottom row. The cube seems complicated, but pop on Zoom with me for an hour or two (or search YouTube) and you’ll crack it. The trick to most complicated problems is the first step. Finding the daisy. Finding your daisy.