Snake cube can vary in colour, material and size. The name comes from how the puzzle looks before and after it is solved. Before it is solved it looks like a snake and when it is solved it is a 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
The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube season working out a solution, which he published as a 32-page pamphlet for the university bookstore. It reached the hands of a publisher at Bantam who persuaded Nourse to expand the guide into a 64-page book. The book was published June 1981. It became the best-selling book of 1981, selling 6,680,000 copies that year. It was the fastest-selling title in the 36-year history of Bantam Books. In November 1981 Nourse published a sequel, "The Simple Solutions to Cubic Puzzles", as an aid to the numerous puzzles that were spawned by the Cube-craze. Many later solutions to Rubik's Cube published on