Archive for November 27th, 2009
The challenge of trying to master the Cube, to be able to restore all of its six sides to the original colors seems to have a mesmeric effect on an amazing variety of individual’s right across age, occupation, wealth and social standing. Grandmothers, bank managers, baseball players, pilots, librarians, park attendants could be seen working away at their Cubes at any hour of the day.
In restaurants the Cube would feature on tables side by side with salt and pepper pots, handled with greater frequency than either. But it was the young, schoolboys and students, who were in the vanguard of what was fast becoming a massive movement that swept through the world. They were the ones who proved most adept at solving the puzzle, they were the ones to form special cubists clubs, to organize competitions, to suffer from Rubik’s wrist playing continuously for hours and days with an object that simply could not put down.
Every invention has an official birth date. For the Cube this date is 1974 when the first working prototype came into being and a patent application was initially drafted. The place was Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The inventor’s name is now a household word, Rubik’s Cube.
You can read more of the article this information was taken from at this link: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/rubikcube.htm
This family game won -
Parent’s Choice Award
Best 25 Products of 25 Years!
The world’s most famous puzzle is the still the best selling puzzle of all time! Billions of combinations, only one solution. Available online.