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 4 corner pieces, which can be permutated in 4! different ways. They cannot be flipped; their orientation is fully determined by their location. The whole puzzle also has a parity constraint: the parity of the corner permutation is the same as the parity of the number of flipped edges. This divides the full number by 2. The full number of possible combinations on the Floppy Cube is therefore: In relative terms, this number is extremely low compared to other puzzles like the Rubik's Cube (with over 43 quintillion combinations), the Rubik's Domino (which has just under 410 million combinations), or