You have a bag with many 3x3 Rubik's cubes . After solving all but one of them, you decide to play a new game.

You take the unsolved cube, and start placing solved ones around it.

The question: What is the maximum number of solved cubes that can touch the solved cube along its sides or parts of its sides?

Notes:

• You can not remove any edge or corner piece!
• All cubes are of same dimensions.
• The unsolved cube should be touched on its faces, so touching along edges or at corner points do not count.

You have a bag with many 3x3 Rubik's cubes . After solving all but one of them, you decide to play a new game.

You take the unsolved cube, and start placing solved ones around it.

The question: What is the maximum number of solved cubes that can touch the unsolved cube along its sides(fully or partially) ?

Notes:

• You can not remove any edge or corner piece!
• All cubes are of same dimensions.
• The solved cubes should touch the face of unsolved cube, so touching edges or at corner points do not count.