Posted on 07/06/2009 12:13:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The inventor of the Rubik's Cube is about to confound the world with a new puzzle called The 360, an executive at Rubik brand said in England. "It doesn't need batteries and looks as though it should be quite easy," said David Hedley, the brand's vice president. "But it is incredibly complicated. There are some really cunning tricks to it."
The 360, which goes on sale next week, was invented by Erno Rubik, 64, the reclusive Hungarian professor who has sold an estimated 350 million Rubik Cubes since 1980, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
With Rubik's new game, players must get six colored balls from an inner sphere into matching slots on an outer sphere by moving them through a middle sphere with just two holes.
The London toy store Hamleys already has had thousands of inquiries about The 360, Nigel Wheatley, the store's head of sales, said.
"I expect thousands to be sold in days," Wheatley told the newspaper.
Oh you just HAD to post that thing, I can get stuck watching that thing for.... well a while.
I would just peel off the stickers..
Oh, great. Something new to pique my OCD.
Cool. Just in time for junior’s birthday.
I would just peel off the stickers..
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disassembly and re-assembly gives better results...
LOL that’s what I used to do, used Vaseline on it as well, made it easier to get apart LOL
Let us know when you’re finished.
I was more fascinated with solving how the cube was constructed and assembled than by the challenge of unscrambling it!
lol...
Worst. Episode. Ever.
My sister did that to mine. She was six at the time. Boy was I mad!
Here’s a video of the puzzle being solved:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61WrIuKaD7k
LOL that was 25 years ago, at least.
Gotta hand it to Rubik.
He has balls now.
I barely recall it. Didn’t wesley save the ship (again) on that episode?
I didn’t even know they had the internet then.
LOL! Nice!
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