Banana Cube solver · More Bananas

🍌 Banana Cube 2×2×3 solver

Drag to look around · U stem end (left) · D tip end · E middle

Mapping all 241,920 banana positions…

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Solved!

Scramble it, or enter the position you have.

Your position match it to your banana

Turn the 3D banana until it looks like yours. Keys: u e d (hold shift for ′), r l f b.

Paste the moves you did, e.g. U R2 E' F2 D2. Side turns are always half turns, so R means R2.

Start from solved

Click a piece on the banana, then click where it should be. The two pieces trade places. Corners trade with corners, middle pieces with middle pieces.

Colour and number the pieces

Solution tree

CloserSameFurtherShortest path

Your journey

How does this work?

The banana cube is a 2×2×3 puzzle with a banana shape. The stem end (U), the middle (E) and the tip end (D) each turn by quarter turns. The long sides (R L F B) only turn by half turns.

When the page opens, it checks every possible position with a breadth-first search: 241,920 of them, or 1,935,360 if you also count which way you hold it. That makes the move count exact. It is the fewest moves possible, so it is not a guess.

In the tree, each row is a distance from solved, and the shaded band shows how many positions are at that distance. The yellow branch is your shortest way home. The coloured dots are all the moves you can make from here. Click one to try it.