The Rubik Cube
By Xushi Chuah on
The Rubik's Cube is a puzzle invented by Erno Rubik in 1979. (Originally however, it was called the Magic Cube) It currently is the worlds No.1 worlds best selling puzzle/toy with over three hundred million (300,000,000+) Rubik's Cubes being sold worldwide by 2005.( That means that one in twenty people own a rubik's cube!!).
A classic 3x3 Rubik's Cube has 6 sides with 9 stickers on each side each side being a different colour. The colours that are tradtionally on a Rubik's Cube are white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow and the objective of the puzzle is to make all the sides one matching colour. An in build mechanism in the Rubik's Cube makes each row and column movable to that the player may solve the cube.
There are exactly 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possibilities that a Rubik's cube may have which is about forty-three quintillionor forty-three trillion. Note, - That is enough possiblites to cover the earth 275 times or have a insanely huge tower that would take 261 light years to reach the end of.
The Rubik's Cube is a breakthrough in toys and puzzles but takes hundreds of hours to master. I rate the Rubik's Cube with a43,252,003,274,489,856,000/10 because of its breakthrough and impact it has made in this world.
(Just kidding I rate it with a 10/10)
We love these cubes. Hubby has a collection of novelty ones.
Rubik cube, I loved this game since I was a kid, but I have to admit, I get frustrated more so being an adult!
i have 3 in different sizes, solved it on my own, (yeah!) took me a whole week though, good thing there was no school at that time.LOL ive seen a photo of 20x20 cube, not sure if its just a model or being manufactured and sold in the market..