Rubik's Impossible 3x3

Great as a new challenge, flawed in quality

So, I bought this puzzle to try new things to solve, and my gosh is this one of the hardest things I've tried. The second after I finished scrambling, I was already lost as I didn't even know which piece was what so it seemed like I had no starting place. But over time, I found properties of the puzzle and strategies that helped me work toward the solution, which I'll let the user find out for themselves. That said, there is one flaw in the quality of this puzzle. One I would like to address is it doesn't turn the best. It isn't utterly terrible either as there's not much friction between the pieces, but it also barely corner cuts. But this, I find acceptable as it's not meant to be a speed cube. What I find to be more of a bother, though, is the lenticular colors. Some of these colors don't mask the other colors well, especially the light ones. From some angles, it feels like the colors are blended together (I'm aware of our double vision, but it holds even if I have one eye closed) and it makes it even harder to tell what each color's supposed to be. This really brings down the solving experience a bit, especially when it's already tough (yeah, it's supposed to be tough, but from the confusion on which of the two colors to use, not from the incomplete masking of darker colors). Overall, I had fun with this puzzle, both in its challenge and in its aesthetics. But it had needless sources of frustration at times.

Rubik's Impossible 3x3

Rubik's Impossible

Even though this is a Rubik's brand and the turning isn't the greatest, its still a fun challenge and fairly difficult. I managed to solve it but it took some work.