A cook with a large knife has a cube of cheese 3 inches on a side. She wishes to slice cube into 27 small cubes 1 inch on a side. How can she do this with only six cuts?

What is amazing about this puzzle is that you can actually solve it by doing it yourself and you can use an apple instead of cheeze also, bu the cubes will be different (except the middle one!).  The best way to solve puzzle is to kind of "get into them".
Once you solved it you can come up with other variation of the puzzle.

The original puzzle has a twist to it:

"Why isn't it possible to cut the cheese in less than six cuts even if she can rearrange the pieces after each cut?"  (hint:  How many faces does a cube have?)

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