In 2024, the 3D puzzle celebrated its 50th anniversary, five decades of entertaining and or driving people's minds crazy.

For five decades now – coinciding with Rubik’s 80th birthday in July – the cube has endured as a design marvel, a seemingly simple yet challenging lightweight plastic toy that vexes the impatient.

Well, it seems that for some people – and by “some people”, we mean “a bunch of physicists and mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder who wanted to win a bet” – this classical version ...

An 'impossible' Rubik's cube brainteaser can only be solved in 30 seconds by the most eagle-eyed puzzlers as almost all of ...

Purists will note, however, that the steppers are fitted with adapters that slot directly into modified center squares on the cube. A regulation Rubik’s, this is not. The design doesn’t ...