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Rubik's Cube inventor is back with Rubik's 360
- jcl 18y agoNeat, but unlikely to beat the popularity of the original cube. By my recollection, Rubik's has had several other puzzles in the interim, none quite as successful (although the Rubik's Magic was pretty cool).
- mhb 18y agoFor me, a big part of the original cube's appeal is the aesthetics of moving the physical object around and also the cleverness of the mechanism which, on first seeing it, is a bit of a puzzle of its own. A puzzle with balls banging around in plastic doesn't have either of those appealing aspects and there are plenty of other difficult puzzles around.
- acangiano 18y agoThey are doing a lot of PR work, if they make it easily available, most people here will buy it even just out of curiosity.
- Retric 18y agoIt has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations on its six faces. That's wrong, there are only 22 pieces on a Rubik's Cube. 8 edges, 6 faces, 12 corners. 8! * 6! * 12! = 1.3905608 × 10^16 and even here there is a lot of symmetry. For example dividing by 6 faces and 4 rotations of each face you get 5.79400335 × 10 ^ 14 unique combinations.
- avinashv 18y agoNo--not only are the faces fixed, but the orientation of the 12th corner and 8th edge are dependent on the previous 11th and 8th corner and edge respectively. The quoted number is known to be fairly standard amongst cubers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubiks_cube#Permutations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubiks_cube#Permutations has a decent description of why.
- Retric 18y agooriented independently, doh. Thanks.