Yes that is essential to what I was saying. The mom thought she would get away with rearranging the stickers as a child because she thought people would believe that she solved the puzzle. And now as an adult, she's confused because she believes her child actually solved it, which she believes is simply extremely difficult, not virtually impossible. She would understand what actually happened if she understood that people basically can't solve it, and that her kid simply followed the fairly simple instructions that likely came with the cube.

This is a good reminder for me, though, to keep my audience in mind when writing comments. I have left most meme communities, but the comics community is going to be similar to meme communities with regard to members.

Yes. It is possible to luck into a solution if you don't know a method. But it's pretty rare, and if you don't get lucky, the best most people will ever do is to have a mostly solved cube.

To go further requires you to use predefined sequences of moves that at first appear to mess up the parts that were already solved, or to systematically work out those sequences yourself, which would involve some serious effort with extra cubes or with writing down sequences on paper or something similar.

It's counterintuitive, but at a certain point, if the cube is mostly solved, but the last bits are wrong, the only way a normal person could solve it without these sequences is to completely mix up the cube again and start over, hoping to get luckier the next time.

I don't know the odds of getting lucky like I've said. I used to practice cubing just to pass time, and I've probably completed hundreds of cubes, and only once did I luck into a solved cube without using those sequences. And I assume I was lucky even with that.