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EG1: Reverse fish

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Six EG1 cases with one yellow corner, the front right yellow facing right.

Goal

The white face on the bottom is done and the bottom layer has two adjacent corners swapped (EG1). The top is the Reverse fish shape. One algorithm solves the whole cube.

How to recognize it

First look at the bottom row of the four sides. EG1 has exactly one side with a matching pair. No side means EG2; all four mean CLL.

Then look at the top row of the four sides, as in CLL: Reverse fish. Each case has the same top layer as the CLL case with the same number. Words used here:

  • Front sticker (or left, right, back): the non-yellow top sticker on that side. On a side with two non-yellow stickers, call them front and rear (or left and right).
  • Matching pair: a side's two top stickers have the same color.
  • Opposite colors: red and orange, green and blue. Two different colors that are not opposite are neighboring colors.

Put the yellow corner at the front left. Compare the left sticker with the back sticker, the right sticker and the front side's right sticker. One always matches and one is always opposite.

How to hold the cube

White on the bottom. Hold the top like the CLL lesson with the same shape, shown under the controls. Then turn D so the bottom matching pair is on the back.

The algorithm only works with that pair on the back. The player adds a U at the start or end when needed.

The main idea

Reverse fish 1 is just 6 moves. Alternatives starting with y' were written for the bottom pair on the left, so rotate the cube first.

Next lesson

Go to EG1: Pi.

Step 1 / 6

F: Front face: turn 90° clockwise (seen from the front)

The left sticker matches the back sticker and is opposite the front side's right sticker.

Hold the yellow corner at the front left, with the front right yellow facing right. Turn the bottom layer so its matching pair is on the back.

Found by: Rowan Kinneavy

Step 1 of 6: F. Front face: turn 90° clockwise (seen from the front)