The Rubik's Cube

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The Rubik’s Cube The Rubik’s Cube was first invented in 1974 by Professor Erno Rubik, a Hungarian professor of architecture. Originally Professor Rubik designed the small puzzle to teach his class of students about three dimensional objects. The structural design problem interested Rubik in asking himself “How could the blocks move independently without falling apart”. After securing a patent for it in 1975, he began marketing it throughout Hungary, Europe with the name Hungarian Magic Cube in 1977 and by 1980, it was marketed worldwide and the name Rubik’s Cube was given. The Rubik’s cube is a six-sided object which splits into three rows and three columns, each of which can slide up to 360 degrees. The puzzle consists of 26 unique miniature cubes. In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colors (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow, where white is opposite yellow, blue is opposite green, and orange is opposite red, and the red, white and blue are arranged in that order in a clockwise arrangement).The purpose of the puzzle is to twist and rotate the cube until it was completely a multicolored mess and then twisting it back to match all the colors together, so that one color is on each side of the cube. A few younger children were able to determine the solution to the puzzle in a few minutes but in actuality there were more than 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions into which the cube could be twisted. Legends abound that fans became so compulsive that one developed tendinitis in her wrist from struggling with the puzzle and another was divorced by his wife for becoming so infatuated with the device – which she had bought him for Christmas. The Rubik’s Cube is still on the market today. It can be found at many toy stores like Walmart and Toys R Us. You can also buy

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