Rubik's Cube Rubik's Cube Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. , 350 million cubes had been sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy. On the original classic Rubik's Cube, each of the
Floppy Cube the Pocket Cube (with over 3.6 million combinations). As explained above, the total number of possible configurations of the Floppy Cube is 192, which is sufficiently small to allow a computer search for optimal solutions. The table below summarises the result of such a search, stating the number "p" of positions that require "n" twists to solve the puzzle: The above table shows that the puzzle is always at most 8 twists away from its solved state (i.e. its God's Number is 8). Similarly to the total number of combinations, this number is very low compared to the Rubik's Cube