Google doodle marks 40th anniversary of Rubik's Cube invention

May 19, 2014 09:36

If you gave up trying to crack the Rubik's Cube a long time ago, why not make another attempt with Google's digital version of the immensely popular 3D combination puzzle posted as a doodle on the 40th anniversary of its invention?

In 1974, while a young professor of architecture in Budapest, Hungary, Erno Rubik created an innovative solid cube that twisted and turned but did not break or fall apart.

The first model was used to help him explain spatial relationships to his students. With colourful stickers on its sides, the cube got scrambled and thus emerged as the first 'Rubik's Cube.'

It took well over a month for Rubik to work out the solution to his puzzle. Designed primarily as a mobile sculpture symbolising the stark contrasts of the human condition-bewildering problems and triumphant intelligence, simplicity and complexity, stability and dynamism, order and chaos-it ended up becoming the world's best-selling toy ever.

The original Rubik's Cube -- which won "toy of the year" in Britain in 1980 - is plastic, with nine coloured squares on each face. The object is to move the pieces around until each side of the cube is a solid colour.

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