NEW YORK — If you’ve ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It’s worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it. “Problem solving is ...

The Rubik’s Cube has only six faces, each presenting only nine cubelets, but the end result is to offer a mind-boggling number of permutations, only one of which embodies the desired solution. The ...

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* First they divided the set of all possible starting configurations into 2.2 billion sets, each containing 19.5 billion configurations, according to how these configurations respond to a group of 10 ...

The Rubik’s Cube has been around for decades. I’ve toyed with the cube, probably in the very late ‘80s or early ‘90s, but never imagined being able to solve one. But wouldn’t it be satisfying if I ...

Built with CSS ingenuity, the Rubik's Cube appears today — May 19 — as an ode, according to Wired, to the 519 quintillion possible configurations of the cube. The Doodle Rubik's Cube is part of a ...

Max Park, a 21-year-old speedcuber, broke the record for the fastest time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating Rubik’s cube. Park solved the cube in 3.13 seconds to set the record on Sunday at California’s Pride ...

We’d probably do a story about Dan Knights just because this year is the 40th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik’s Cube, which recently was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Knights, ...

For anyone that is learning to solve the Rubik’s cube, books and YouTube videos can be hard to grasp. They do not provide a tangible experience. Other cube solvers do exist, but they use a large ...

Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik takes play very seriously — and suggests we could all lighten up. "Most people are taking most of the things too seriously," he says. "They really can't enjoy life ...

Happy Birthday, Rubik’s Cube. Now that you’ve marked your 40th in style (with an ingenious interactive Google doodle), let’s look back at nine fun facts about you (one for each square on a side). It ...