The answer is ALEXIS The corresponding square is house puzzle by Ray Jones This is the rubik's cube puzzle. The cube is labelled as shown below. It has been mixed up, but one side piece has also been flipped, making the cube unsolvable. Taking the pieces apart to fix the cube, one hopefully notices that the pieces can be overlapped by color and letter to form a phrase. The phrase is: theauthorofdemocracyinamerica The center faces of the cube read "chains" Below, the columns would all be on the same color: the au ut th The blurb contains clues indicating first names. Alexis DeTocqueville is the author of democracy in america; the answer is ALEXIS.