Rubik's Cube

Another classic puzzle that we couldn't ignore this time a mechanical one.
in the year 1974 a professor of architecture in Hungary name Emõ Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube, originally called Magic Cube, it licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. Wins the Best Puzzle Game Award in Germany in 1980.

It is to this day the top-selling puzzle game ever made and its considered to be the world's best selling toy as well.

General View:

Objective:

The objective seems pretty straight forward, by means of spining the faces of the cube you must complete each face with a single color. A puvot mechanism inside grants the possibility of such spins to occur and thus the scramble of the colors.


Difficulty:

The difficulty in solving this puzzle is the fact that changing a face's smaller cube, alters other faces as well, meaning that when you think you got a face completed you have to check if you didn't change something you need back on that position. Duo to the nature of the puzzle its possible to follow a solution that works everytime by simply paying attention to corners and other details. Fun thing is you can try out many other "solutions" like crosses in the faces for instance.


Variations:

Variations of the original cube come in the form of bigger and more "sliced" cubes or even a smaller 2x2x2 one. The bigger ones are for example:

• 4x4x4 - Master Cube
• 5x5x5 - Professor Cube
• 6x6x6 - V-Cube 6
• 7x7x7 - V-Cube 7

And even other forms such as tetrahedrons  and octahedron.



Benefits of the Rubik's Cube:

Keeping the brain exercised and improving hand eye coordination and keeping your mind sharp at problem solving.





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