Rubik’s Cube: The best puzzle ever?
BBCRubik’s Cube: The best puzzle ever? Yet since 1980, when the Rubik’s Cube was first marketed by the Ideal Toy Corp – a New York company founded by Morris Michtom, a Russian-Jewish émigré and his American wife, Rose, after they had invented another famous best-seller, the Teddy Bear – this intriguing plastic Cube, has perplexed millions of people. There is even a loosely associated international group of Speedcubers whose members aim to beat the world Rubik’s Cube solving record. The re-named Rubik’s Cube sold like proverbial hot cakes and soon made Ernő Rubik the richest private individual in communist Hungary. The Rubik’s Cube is an object we collectively love and there are, perhaps inevitably, collectors of early models, each dreaming of finding and owning a pre-1980 Magic Cube made in communist Hungary.
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2014: 40 years of the Rubik cube
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