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 ...

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 ...

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* 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 ...

The Rubik’s Cube has been around for decades. I’ve toyed with the cube, probably in the very late ‘80s or early ‘90s, but never imagined being able to solve one. But wouldn’t it be satisfying if I ...

Max Park, a 21-year-old speedcuber, broke the record for the fastest time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating Rubik’s cube. Park solved the cube in 3.13 seconds to set the record on Sunday at California’s Pride ...

For anyone that is learning to solve the Rubik’s cube, books and YouTube videos can be hard to grasp. They do not provide a tangible experience. Other cube solvers do exist, but they use a large ...

We’d probably do a story about Dan Knights just because this year is the 40th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik’s Cube, which recently was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Knights, ...

A robot recently completed the Rubik’s Cube in about the time it takes a human to make even one turn of the popular puzzle. The lightning-quick Sub1 Reloaded robot, which was built by engineer Albert ...

Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik takes play very seriously — and suggests we could all lighten up. "Most people are taking most of the things too seriously," he says. "They really can't enjoy life ...