Toy enigma that challenges ingenuity. Solutions to puzzle may require recognizing patterns and creating a particular order. People with a high inductive reasoning aptitude may be better at solving these puzzles than others. Puzzles based on the process of inquiry and discovery to complete may be solved faster by those with good deduction skills. A popular puzzle toy is the Rubik's Cube, invented by Hungarian Ernő Rubik in 1974. Popularized in the 1980s, solving the cube requires planning and problem-solving skills and involves algorithms. There are many different types of puzzles, for example a maze is a type of tour puzzle.
Lucid 3-D Lucid 3-D Lucid 3-D was a spreadsheet package that began in the MS-DOS era; Windows support came later. Sam Redman and Michael Stanford incorporated as PCSG corporation (Portable Computer Support Group). Their Lucid 3-D spreadsheet was marketed by DAC. Lucid 3-D was considered noteworthy at the time for being "the only major memory-resident spreadsheet available for the PC." The selling point of the product was being "three dimensional. "Any cell" of the spreadsheet "can contain a complete other spreadsheet that you can access with a single key"stroke." Another technical feature was what their ads called "not only minimal recalc, but