Cube Nets and Cube Folding Practice

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A cube net is the unfolded surface of a cube. You imagine the net being folded up and pick the cube that results. The faces carry patterns such as dots, crosses or bars, and their orientation has to be turned along with them as you fold.

How it works

• Net to cube: which of the cubes shown can be folded from the net?
• Opposite-face question: after folding, which face lies opposite a given face?
• Easy starts with the simple cross-shaped net; hard uses all nets and asymmetric patterns, where the rotation of every face has to be right as well.
• The cubes are shown at an angle from above, so you see three faces at once.

Sample question

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Tips

• Opposite faces are never directly next to each other in the net — that lets you rule out many answers straight away.
• With asymmetric patterns such as half-filled faces or triangles, pay attention to the direction they point in.

Relevance for IQ and Mensa tests

Cube questions are a classic test of spatial reasoning and appear in many intelligence and aptitude tests.

Frequently asked questions

How many cube nets are there?

There are eleven different nets that fold into a cube. All eleven appear in the questions.

What is the difference between the levels?

As the level rises, the patterns become more varied and asymmetric, so the orientation of each face matters too.

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