* First they divided the set of all possible starting configurations into 2.2 billion sets, each containing 19.5 billion configurations, according to how these configurations respond to a group of 10 ...

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 ...

Getting someone a Rubik’s Cube? Shame on you. That’s a horrible thing to do. If you must do it, also give them this list of links to online guides to solving the tiny cubic bundles of frustration. In ...

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A Rubik’s cube solver has become the first person to show proof of successfully combining the final two steps of solving the mechanical puzzle into one move. The feat required the memorisation of ...

For Northeastern University computer scientists Gene Cooperman and Daniel Kunkle, Rubik’s Cube isn’t a game—it’s the ultimate combinatorial puzzle, and their solution promises to improve all our lives ...

An international team of researchers using computer time lent to them by Google has found every way the popular Rubik's Cube puzzle can be solved, and showed it can always be solved in 20 moves or ...

The Rubik’s Cube has only six faces, each presenting only nine cubelets, but the end result is to offer a mind-boggling number of permutations, only one of which embodies the desired solution. The ...

The Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian architect called Erno Rubik A 30-year quest to find the fewest number of moves needed to solve any one of the billions of configurations for a ...