Pattern folding: cubes

[Adamsswag]

I'm having lots of trouble with pattern folding as I go through CRACK PAT specifically the questions with cubes. I find it extremely difficult to fold the cubes in my head, and there are several different patterns that form cubes. Any words of advice?

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[sacapuntas]

I'm having lots of trouble with pattern folding as I go through CRACK PAT specifically the questions with cubes. I find it extremely difficult to fold the cubes in my head, and there are several different patterns that form cubes. Any words of advice?

I would suggest you to make some out of real paper and fold them up until you can see more easily how it works.

This section is supposed to be the one on the real PAT that is harder than crack so you should practice until crack is easy.

 

[Blue87Fiero]

I don't know if this what you do or not but when I first started doing CDP I would fold the cube in my head then try to move it around. I would always mess the cube up in my head when I would rotate it around.

What I find easier is to take the unfolded cube of the screen and rotate that around to match one of the patterns then stick it on top of a matching section then fold it up and see which one it is.

You always fold into the screen

I don't know if that made any sense

 

[sacapuntas]

The way I think about them is that I don't think about how the given cube should look as much as how the answers should look. I will look at A first and see if it is possible for it to be the answer. If I find anything wrong I move on and look at B and so on. If I find one that I can't find anything wrong I pick that as my answer and move on to the next problem. This way you don't spend too much time on each problem and instead can spend your time on other problems you are guaranteed to get right if you have enough time (ie hole punching and cube counting).

 

[sundaequeen]

The way I think about them is that I don't think about how the given cube should look as much as how the answers should look. I will look at A first and see if it is possible for it to be the answer. If I find anything wrong I move on and look at B and so on. If I find one that I can't find anything wrong I pick that as my answer and move on to the next problem. This way you don't spend too much time on each problem and instead can spend your time on other problems you are guaranteed to get right if you have enough time (ie hole punching and cube counting).

I second this method! It works well for other types of pattern folding questions too. Just check each answer choice and see if it's possible from the unfolded pattern.

 

[Adamsswag]

Alright thanks a lot everyone, I'll try all those strategies