Solving a Rubik's Cube is an easy way to impress your friends, but you don't need to be a math genius to crack the algorithm. With help from this app spotted by Lifehacker, you don't even need to ...

A magic cube is a three-dimensional array of whole numbers, in which each row, column, and body diagonal (corner to corner, through the center) adds up to the same total. A perfect magic cube is one ...

NEW YORK — If you’ve ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It’s worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it. “Problem solving is ...

[Credit: VRGamez/Amazon] When Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik came up with the original ‘Magic Cube’ in 1974, he probably wasn’t expecting his invention to make him one of ...

Inventor Erno Rubik demonstrates his cube in London in 1981. * Photo: Associated Press/John Glanvill * __1975: __Erno Rubik files for a patent on his twisty toy cubes. He'll get the patent and, later, ...

1975: Erno Rubik files for a patent on his twisty toy cubes. He'll get the patent and, later, fame and fortune. Rubik, who'd been schooled in sculpture and architecture, taught interior design at an ...