If you’ve ever dabbled with a Rubik’s Cube, you know it isn’t the easiest puzzle to crack. But despite the challenging nature of the game, it’s endured longer than most other toys of its ...

The Rubik’s Cube has been reinvented with more games and many more screens for much more money. What has long been cherished as a simple toy yet complex puzzle requiring nothing but a healthy amount ...

Ernő Rubik, who turns 80 on July 13, finished the prototype of his "Magic Cube" 50 years ago. Fifty years ago, as he sat in his mother’s apartment in Budapest, Hungary, young professor, Ernő Rubik, ...

To my shame, I have never solved a Rubik’s Cube. It’s not that I’m bad at puzzles, or dislike them (I quite enjoy a good puzzle, actually). But the Rubik’s Cube just never made sense to my brain. I’d ...

Mathematicians and hobbyists have had a half-century of fun exploring the 43 billion billion permutations of Erno Rubik’s creation. “My method was understanding,” Erno Rubik said of the iconic twisty ...

Erno Rubik was the inventor of Rubik's Cube. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. As a young boy, Rubik liked to draw and sculpt. Years later, he studied architecture and became obsessed with ...

The world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube might have the world’s highest price tag, too. The fully functional six-sided puzzle cube by Japanese toymaker MegaHouse is so tiny it could fit under a finger nail, ...

While many may associate Rubik’s Cube with Sony Walkmans, neon shirts, leg warmers and rugby pants, the puzzle that swept Canada in the early 1980s never really went away and has, in fact, enjoyed a ...

Hidden away in Budapest’s Buda Hills stands Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik’s minimalist five-storey abode. Adorned with multiple scenic terraces, it stars an elevator that conveniently glides between ...

BRIGHT and early on the first Saturday in January, Tomas Rokicki and a few hundred fellow enthusiasts gathered in a vast lecture hall at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. A big math ...