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Archive Post · Originally posted September 30, 2008

Rubik's cube remastered.

Rubik's cube remastered.
In 1974 Errno Rubik invented the "Magic Cube" which is widely know as the Rubik's Cube. We all know about it since I believe everyone has it. To prove my point it is know as the best selling toy of all times with over 300 Million sold worldwide.

Rubik's Cube cultivated such a following that there are contests around the world and this year a guy called Erik Akkersdijk solved in 7.08 seconds! That is a world record by the way and here is the video.

So everyone understand the cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions. Yeah, that is a LARGE number BUT it can be solved in 25 or fewer moves since there is an algorithm to do so.

Over time, the cube has evolved and there has been a lot of new ones, like a 4x4x4 cube and a 5x5x5 one. The latest one though and very cool is called "Mirror Rubik's Cube" and it is made out of mirrors.
It works in similar way, but each face has a block of different shape, so when you start moving it around it loses the "cube" form. Here is a video of the unboxing of it.

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