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Slight detail that might have helped...


Can someone explain to me why the guy who was marking the sequence 60659 forgot to add the colon that would have made it much clearer that the numbers represented a time and not room numbers and so on... I feel that's an illogical mistake that only served the movie to confused the characters (just like in the original cube when the theory behind the numbers changes until she figures it out at the end)



On a separate note, why were there far fewer deadly traps in this one?
Let's assume that the trap in the original were some sort of sadistic motivator to find the right path (like a hamster in a maze), why is it that in the hyper cube, a far more advanced cube, there are far fewer deadly traps. After all this is an experimental program done by the same corporation. There are obviously different motives in each movie to place the characters in the cube but I'm confused as to why has the cube become less of a death trap...




Finally, and maybe i've missed something as I wasn't paying a ton of attention at the end of the movie as I thought it was utter *beep* compared to the first one but if this was a mission by the blonde girl to retrieve this item from a blind girl, why put everyone through these trials? Why not just from the blond girl with a knife in there and grab what they need and kill the blind girl? I must be missing something.

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to your first question: obviously it was a plot device, but in the universe of the movie, I think it was that after the physicist did the math, he wasn't sure what the measurement of time was. like he didn't know if it was hours, minutes, days, so on and so forth.

I think there were fewer traps because their intentions for the hypercube were different. their intention was to research teleportation.

can't really answer the last question. didn't make too much sense. I guess it had a lot to do with silencing everyone that had a connection to the project while at the same time seeing how people responded to the cube. and they didn't want Kate being suspicious to the others, going after a blind girl with a knife.

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He may have understood the number to be a time, however, since the markings were for HIMSELF and not for others to use, it doesn't matter if he put the colons in or not. If I understood what they said ("he figured out what time it would collapse") then he did, in fact, know that he was dealing with a unit of time.

Like I said, these were notes to himself, so the colons weren't necessary. I mean, if you were leaving these for OTHER people, why not just write them a note in English, right?

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As I understand it, there was only one room but many realities and points in time. Exiting through a door led to you entering the same room at another time or parallel dimension.

As such, there were no "traps". The object of the cube was not to torture people but to study quantum teleportation on live specimens. The deadly "crystals" etc were side effects to the whole experiment, ripples in time and space.

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I just can't get that to sink in; science is one thing, but alternate realities? Strange; too strange for words! "Hostel" made more sense! 

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That's because Hostel was simple. Sickos torturing teens.

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