Snake cube Snake cube The snake cube is a mechanical puzzle, a chain of 27 or 64 cubelets, connected by an elastic band running through them. The cubelets can rotate freely. The aim of the puzzle is to arrange the chain in such a way that they will form 3 x 3 x 3 or 4 x 4 x 4 cube. A variation on the puzzle is a Kibble cube, which is also a string of cubes but has slots on the cubes. There are also many different styles of the cube. It can be made up of wood or plastic and
Magic cube classes Perfect magic cube. Nasik; A. H. Frost (1866) referred to all but the simple magic cube as Nasik!<br> C. Planck (1905) redefined "Nasik" to mean magic hypercubes of any order or dimension in which all possible lines summed correctly.<br> i.e. Nasik is a preferred alternate, and less ambiguous term for the "perfect" class.<br>Minimum correct summations required = 13"m". All pan-"r"-agonals sum correctly for "r" = 1, 2 and 3. Alternate Perfect Note that the above is a relatively new definition of "perfect". Until about 1995 there was much confusion about what constituted a "perfect" magic cube (see the discussion under