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The official Rubik’s cube alarm clock

The official Rubik’s cube alarm clock

So you love games huh? Perhaps the Rubik’s cube was the first challenging toy that made you think for hours on how you were going to match the colors together and without fail you finally did and boy that victory was of epic proportions. So riddle me this… why don’t you have the official Rubik’s cube alarm clock? …

Ernő Rubik Turns 66 - Respect The Cube!

Ernő Rubik Turns 66 - Respect The Cube!

My Rubik’s cube is sitting on my desk, to my immediate left, as it always does. I’ve been trying to solve it, developing algorithms, for months. I’m doing pretty well, but I’m by no means close to solving it. I’m sure hundreds of thousands of geeks around the world can echo this sentiment. That ErnÅ‘ Rubik could design a puzzle so simple, and so goddamn difficult to solve, is his legacy. And what a legacy. There are 4.33 x 10*19 permutations in a standard Rubik’s cube! If you wanna split hairs, that’s exactly 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations! And ONE of them is correct. For crap’s sake, ErnÅ‘….

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