Eps 1: rubix cube adventure
— an adventure through rubix cubes
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Host
Tom Shelton
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Through highly interactive, physical and digital challenges, guests will learn how Rubiks Cube emerged from a workshop in communist-era Hungary into a global phenomenon, inspiring creativity across science, technology, engineering, robotics, the visual arts, music, film, architecture, and mathematics. Inventions invites guests to dive straight into the intricate, immersive world of puzzle toys, featuring rare artifacts revealing Rubiks Cubes origins, a make-your-own puzzle challenge using three-dimensional shapes, and an interactive touchscreen table in which guests create visually astounding patterns.
Adding to the excitement for the 40th Anniversary, Rubiks has formed multiple partnerships to produce entirely new, Rubiks-themed products beyond your average games and puzzles. In fact, since debuting in 1977 , Rubiks has sold over 450 million of its toys. Now on the 40th Anniversary year, almost a half-billion Cubes have been sold so far, and 2020 is shaping up to be a breakout year, with over 20 million Rubiks products expected to be sold worldwide.
By January 2009, 350 million Cubes had been sold globally, making it the best-selling puzzle in the world. At the 1979 Frankfurt Toy Fair, agents from Rubiks debuted Magic Cube to the west. While the cube, which was patented now, languished for several years on toy shelves in Hungary, Rubik sent feelers to Western companies about developing his invention into a commercial toy.
Erno Rubik remained in Hungary, inventing and selling a handful of other variations of the new toy, and editing magazines about puzzles, as well as starting his own industrial design company in the mid-1980s. Erno Rubik, a Hungarian architect and professor of design, invented The Cube, Business Insider reported, and later named it after himself. The new toy even became the subject of a Saturday morning cartoon of its own, Rubiks Amazing Cube, which ran from 1983.
The hashtag #cubeathome has generated over 17 million views on TikTok, according to the ad, as people shared videos of themselves trying to solve Rubiks Cube, the games iconic puzzle. Rubiks Brand is building on this interest with social media content designed to help people solve its iconic Rubiks Cube puzzle, as well as sharing results on platforms such as TikTok. Enlisted brand ambassadors including Keaton Ellis and Jack Kai will be teaching others to solve the puzzle through Rubiks Brands social channels, using the #FastFriday hashtag on their posts.
With these handy tips, you will be solving the good old fashioned Rubiks Cube puzzle in no time. It can be really difficult to solve the Rubiks Cube when you do not know the algorithm required for it. While there are several different algorithms out there to help you figure out, and eventually solve, a Cube, it is difficult to narrow down just a particular algorithm. Within the United States, the Rubiks Cube Program can usually get cubes in the hands of 500,000 students each year, helping them to learn important STEM and STEAM concepts.
The entire purpose of a Rubiks Cube is to shuffle colors around as you spin the cube, and then attempt to solve the puzzle by lining up each color side so one side is all red, one side is all green, and so on. Rotate every row and column of a colored cube to have every side the same color. Get all white cubes on the same side to AT. Next, solve for the white corners. Once you have got all of the yellow cubes to the other side on the white side, you can complete the puzzle by rotating other colored cubes to their correct spaces.
If none of the cubes on the corners are yellow on the white side, the yellow cubes have to be on the left corners or left faces. Your cube should look similar to the image below, the white sides are fully done, red and blue faces are the same. Each of the 27 smaller ones is painted either red, yellow, green, blue, orange, or white. Stampy shows each side of the gigantic cube of rubiqs by looking from each side, showing front blue, left red, back yellow, right green, with Stampy remarking how it is irritating how you only get to see two sides at once.
A boy I was dating was following along, and was able to solve a Rubiks cube within minutes, while consulting his notes. I used to play with the Cube back in the day when I was stuck somewhere where I was waiting and had nothing better to do, such as a doctors office waiting room, in between classes, etc. Back then, I was able to solve the Cube, but took some time. It took the guy I was dating a fair amount of time to solve a Rubiks cube, even though he had directions, and was not able to solve it without his notes. An older friend of mine, however, a man far more intelligent and patient than me, was able to solve this iconic, multi-colored puzzle in under a minute.
Tim Schafer, in need of a way to fill his afternoon, learned how to solve the three-by-three-block puzzle Rubiks Cube. Rubiks Cubes now fill Schafers days, and no 24-hour period is complete without solving at least some of his different Cubes.