Drag a face of the cube to turn that layer, or drag the background to look around. On a keyboard, the letters U, D, L, R, F and B turn the faces, and Shift reverses the turn. Press the question mark key for every shortcut.

Quarter Turn Book the room

Private game room North Hollywood

Play the room before you book it.

A speed cube, an arcade cabinet, a paper-toss lane and a sofa under the neon. One group, up to ten people. $20 a quarter hour for the whole room.

Book the room
  • 10 people
  • 5 games on free play
  • 2 am closing time
The tour

Friday night

Sound like your last night out?

  • The group chat has been picking a bar since Tuesday.
  • The bowling lane you booked opens up at 10:40.
  • The music is louder than the person next to you.
  • Last call is at 11:30.
  • The party room is a folding table under fluorescent lights.

This room holds one group. Yours.

  • Up to 10 people
  • Open till 2 am
  • Bring your own drinks

The cabinet

Five games. No coins.

One upright cabinet with a real tube, on free play all night.

The lane

Paper League.

A desk, a steel can across the room and two fans. The wind changes on every throw. First to ten. The loser brings the snacks next time.

The lounge

A sofa for the ones who are just watching.

Velvet, a rug and the neon. Bring your own food and drinks. The fridge, the ice and the glasses are on us.

How the night goes

A night in the room

Nobody can agree on a bar, so somebody books the room. By nine there is a scoreboard on the wall and a crowd around the cabinet. By eleven the quiet one from accounting has sunk seven in a row into a headwind, and nobody has looked at a phone in two hours.

The price

A quarter turn is fifteen minutes.

$20 for every quarter hour. That is for the whole room, not per person. Book one to four hours.

2 hours
6 people

$160 for the room, $26.67 each

8 quarter turns.

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Book

Pick a night.

Tell us when and how many. We hold the room and send the door code.

  • The whole room, nobody else in it
  • All five games on free play
  • Paper, fans and a scoreboard
  • A fridge, ice and glasses
How long
2 hours
People
6
Total$160

Quarter Turn is a design concept, not a real venue. This form sends nothing.

Questions

Before you ask.

How many people fit?

Up to ten. There is a sofa for whoever is between turns.

Do we share the room?

No. One booking, one group. Nobody else comes in while it is yours.

Can we bring food and drinks?

Yes. Bring what you like. Alcohol is for guests 21 and over. There is a fridge, ice and glasses, and a table that is not the arcade cabinet.

When do we pay?

When you book, by card. The total on the form is the whole bill.

What if we want to stay longer?

If the slot after yours is free, add quarter hours on the tablet by the door. Same price.

Is it for kids?

All ages before 9 pm, with an adult in the group. After 9 it is 18 and over.

Can we cancel?

Yes. Up to 48 hours before, you get all of it back. After that we move your booking once, to any open night.

Do I need to know how to solve a cube?

No. The cabinet and the lane need no practice.

Visit

The door is unmarked.

North Hollywood Arts District, Los Angeles. The address and the door code come with your booking.

Open
Every night, 5 pm to 2 am
Call
(818) 555-0142
Getting here
Street parking on the block. The North Hollywood Metro station is a five-minute walk.
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Quarter Turn

3×3 · Classic
Solved
Moves0

Flick up to throw. Mind the wind.Drag up and let go to throw, or hold Space. Mind the wind.

How to play

Hands

  • Drag across a face to turn that layer. Let go and it settles to the nearest quarter turn.
  • Drag the empty space to look around. Pinch or scroll to move closer.
  • With a mouse, hold the right button and drag to turn the whole cube. The keys X, Y and Z do the same.
  • Scramble mixes it, Solve plays the fix, Hint lights up the next layer to turn.
  • Scramble, then solve it yourself: each stage you finish is marked. On a 3×3 that is the cross, the first layer, two layers, the top face, then solved.

The room

  • The arcade by the wall has five games: Snake, Bricks, Paddle, Rocks and Flap. Tap the cabinet, or the joystick at the top. Tap a game to pick it, then tap it again to play.Click the cabinet, or the joystick at the top, then click a game.
  • Paper toss: tapclick the can, or the ball at the top. Flick up to throw.Drag up and let go to throw. The breeze changes every throw. The arrow and bars at the top show which way and how hard. On a keyboard, hold Space and watch the bar: it is your power. Let go to throw. The left and right arrows aim.
  • The cube at the top brings you back.
  • Back, first in the bar at the top, leaves the room for the site.

Keys

U D L R F BTurn a face clockwise. Add Shift to turn it back.
M E STurn a middle slice (odd sizes).
X Y ZRotate the whole cube.
1 2 3The cube, the arcade, paper toss.
← → ↑ ↓ · SpaceAt the arcade: steer · play, serve, fire. At the toss: aim · throw.
Ctrl Z · Ctrl Shift ZUndo · redo.
SpaceOn the Timer tab, start a solve.
HShow a hint (3×3).
C · PCinema mode · photo mode.
EscLeave cinema, skip a sequence, stop typed moves, close a panel. In a game, back to the list of games. At the arcade or the toss, back to the cube.

Notation

Each letter names a face: Up, Down, Left, Right, Front, Back. A letter alone is a clockwise quarter turn as you look at that face. A prime (R′) turns it back, a 2 (R2) turns it halfway. A lowercase letter or a w (r, Rw) turns two layers together. On bigger cubes, a number picks a deeper layer: 2R is the second layer in from the right. Brackets group moves: (R U R′ U′)2 plays the group twice, and (R U)′ plays it backwards.

The numbers

A 3×3 cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 positions. In 2010 Tomas Rokicki, Herbert Kociemba, Morley Davidson and John Dethridge proved that every one of them can be solved in 20 moves or fewer, counting a half turn as one move. Counting quarter turns only, the limit is 26, proved by Rokicki and Davidson in 2014. Ernő Rubik built the first cube in 1974.

Solve uses Kociemba’s two-phase method. It usually finds a solution of 18 to 22 moves in under half a second.

Your shot

A still frame of the cube on its stage, taken in photo mode.

Right-click the image to save it.