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ZZ Tripod Formation + Last Slot (TLS)
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I used Tripod and ZZ Tripod for a few months in 2020 for fun to learn some easy 1LLL cases. This was the idea I had to optimize it for speed solving, but never got around to genning/documenting.

Fast forward a few years to 2023, and a few people have been playing around with ZZ Tripod and were interested in it, so I finally got around to fully developing the idea and documenting it. The algs turned out to be surprisingly nice!

The way it works is the solver leaves out a slot (for this document the FR slot with blue-front red-right) and solves an LL pair of a corner and edge into that slot with an F2L solution. The solver then does an alg to solve the proper last slot F2L pair and combine the LL pair in the slot with the correct edge to form the 2x2x1 Tripod block. This leaves the solver with a Tripod ZBLL (54) to finish the solve.

This document uses the orange-green-yellow pair in the F2L slot for all the case images, so the green-yellow edge in the images represents the edge the LL pair needs to connect to.
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