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Another puzzle that the exhibit depicts the long history of is the dexterity puzzle. This very simple puzzle--with four balls in a circular maze--caused a craze in the 1880s almost on the scale of the Rubik's Cube fad a century later. The object was to put the four balls in the center of the maze, or place the "pigs...
Four seperate displays are dedicated to three-dimensional geometric sequence puzzles. Perhaps the best-known and most obvious example of this kind is Erno Rubik's cube puzzle. That wonderful cuboid object, first marketed in the U.S. in the early 1980s, swept the globe, selling millions of copies in the process. It not only maddened the people who could not solve the easy-looking puzzle, but it spawned a generation of whiz-kids who could solve it in under a minute. Of course, some of these genuises wanted more. So manufacturers offered Cube spinoffs in odd shapes...
...exhibit has jazzed-up Cubes, with pictures of E.T., world flags, Prince Charles, and even Chex cereal on the sides instead of colors. But the most challenging puzzle in the six-sided genre seemed to be the five-by-five-by-five cube, one of only 20,000 specimens ever made...
Senators have a duty to ensure that Bork does not have a chance to continue playing his self-absorbed game with the Constitution for him is like a 200-year old Rubik's cube. After tortured reasoning, the game's self-proclaimed master manages to find a way to come to the same end point. Bork is more than a conservative activist. He's a radical puzzle-solver...
Each year, The Crimson Sports Cube challenges its readers to a baseball trivia quiz. With the Red Sox in the midst of their first homestand of the '87 season, it is time once again for this annual rite of spring. Give yourself 6 points for each correct short answer and 4 points for each correct multiple choice. If you score...