Rubik's Cube Comeback

aheath writes "Today's Boston Globe has an interesting article on the revived popularity of the Rubik's Cube. The article mentions that Winning Moves Games 'hopes to capitalize on the renaissance of the original Rubik's Cube in the next several months by rereleasing a version of the supersize 'Rubik's Revenge,' a 4-by-4 cube with 16 squares per side.' You can compare your best Rubik's Cube solution speed to the world champion's record. If the manual solution method doesn't appeal to you, you can always use the Lego Robotics automated method." I remember having a cube that had letters on each sticker instead of colors, so that the solved product spelled words across each face. That thing got me through a lot of childhood car rides.

Comments

Never mind solving them

[ahecht]

I could never figure out how the darned things worked. I took a few apart, but it still seems like magic to me.

Re:Never mind solving them

[Anonymous Coward]

Try solving a 4-D rubik's cube. ;)

http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm

did anyone actually solve it?

[The Tyro]

I tried and tried to solve that maddening little cube... ended up taking it apart.

OK, I cheated. I'm a bad person. Happy now?

Re:did anyone actually solve it?

[Rasta Prefect]

I tried and tried to solve that maddening little cube... ended up taking it apart.

Oh, wait, thats not what they meant by the manual method?

Whew! It's over again.

[blair1q]

In the time it took to read that submission, Rubik's Cube came and went. Again.

You can't push a fad, you know.

Groovy.

Re:If you want to solve it.

[sonicattack]

You forgot about this one, contributed by Steve Rubenstein:

Easiest Color to Solve on a Rubik's Cube:
Black.

Simply remove all the little colored stickers on the cube, and each of side of the cube will now be the original color of the plastic underneath -- black. According to the instructions, this means the puzzle is solved.