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
Minus Cube to fall into the space. The goal of the puzzle is to shuffle the cubes in such a way that on each side of the box, all of the faces of the small cubes are one color. There were two types of Minus Cubes manufactured: the so-called "Moscow Minus Cube" (red-white) and "Sverdlovsk Minus Cube" (blue-white), each named after the cities in which they were produced. They differed only in the orientation of one of the small cubes. Because of this difference there are 12 times as many "solved" arrangements for the Moscow Minus Cube, and thus the Sverdlovsk Minus