I’ll be curious to see the full video as well.
It is interesting to see how both contestants start with the same side of the scrambler (two blues + yellow). I always start with the center and move my way outwards according to availability of the tiles. In 37 years, nobody has ever beat me at this game. My niece is getting very close though.
Concerning the mini 1x1x1 cubes within the slider, the stickers on the 1982 version were beautiful; really perfect colors and nice round corners. The ones on the new version don’t have stickers; they seem to be silkscreened directly on the plastic (and they don’t have perfectly round corners). The thing is, the paint/ink is slightly semi transparent and so some of the black shows through (particularly on the red, orange and yellow sides; thus, those colors look slightly darker, which is very annoying). I own both versions and after seeing this, I immediately swapped the mini cubes. Now I have the good old 1982 mini cubes within my modern version scrambler.
Additionally, the 1982 version mini cubes have a strange color scheme; it is similar to the Japanese color scheme, but with red and orange on opposite sides. The new version mini cubes have the Western color scheme. Obviously, the color scheme of the mini cubes don’t have any impact on the actual game. Here’s a link that shows the standard color scheme for reference: https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/japanese-western-color-schemes/
Here’s a comparison of the stickers/paint of the two mini cubes (red, blue and yellow are shown on both).
And here’s a comparison of the two sets of mini cubes within the modern version scrambler showing the configuration on the video (as I see it).
