Hello again everyone.

I was unhappy with the Perpetual Calendar plans offered up by Rubik's. I wanted one that looked like the original.

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After reading the above message posted by Michael on October 11 (I caught up by read the entire forum over the past two weeks!), I constructed an Excel 2000 document to help me build a Perpetual Calendar cube according to the "unfolded view" at the URL he wrote.

You can download the Excel document here:

http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/files2/rubiksperpetualcalendar.xls

Does it work, you ask? Have a look at mine!





I printed it out on a black and white laser printer, went to Kinko's photocopied it onto sticker paper, laminated it for durability, cut cut out all the squares and stuck 'em on an extra cube I had.

There are however a couple of differences between the original and the pattern given in the Excel document:

1) The logos are missing. I didn't have a high enough resolution scan of them to bother.
2) The fonts are different. I could have matched them up given more time, but I figured they are close enough... after all, it's never going to be the same as the original no matter how perfect things match.

Sandy

Hi Sandy,

Great job!

...I couldn't download your excel document ? (Is everything working ?)

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...Ripley's believe it or not !

Have you notice, you could write your name on one side of the cube (you almost did !)
the letter "Y" is on the top side of the cube !

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Michael

I just tried the link again. Works fine for me. Try right-clicking it and going to "Save Target As". If I left-click it in my browser, it actually opens it up directly in Explorer... which probably isn't what you want. Also, it's an Excel 2000 document. I can try saving it as Excel 97 if people need it, but not sure if everything will still line up right.

About my name, yeah, you're right. Didn't notice. I tried it out, and the closest I could get was:


 D
SAN
 Y


But the Y & D are both sideways!

Sandy