First, search the top layer for edge pieces with no yellow stickers.

Beautiful, thickly varnished wooden pews are all marred by garish yellow stickers telling us where to sit.

Watchers hooded in yellow stickers patrolled the narrow jetties or, motionless, studied the eddies boiling at their feet.

How many corners have yellow stickers?

Continue solving for edge pieces on the top layer without yellow stickers until the second layer is completely solved.

There are no edge pieces in this top layer that don't have yellow stickers, and yet the second layer is not solved.