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...addition to solving the "classic" 3X3 Rubik's Cube five successive times with a world-class average time of 12.46 seconds, Nakajima also earned 5,000 euros ($7,016) in prize money and now stands at the pinnacle of perhaps the world's most unusual sport...
After a weekend of tense competition between 263 of the world's top competitors, 16-year-old Yu Nakajima of Japan was declared the winner of the main event of the 25th Rubik's World Speedcubing Championship, which was held in the Hungarian capital...
...peace in the Middle East is a Rubik's Cube whose every piece has to align properly to arrive at a solution, the puzzle posed by Hizballah seems to have more than six colors for six sides. The Shi'ite militia has skillful fighters, powerful patrons in Iran and Syria and roots so deep in Lebanon that it has become a state within a state. Israel couldn't beat it during 18 years of occupying Lebanon and last week had to withdraw its troops from the border village of Bint Jbeil, a Hizballah stronghold, after sustaining heavy losses. Yet unless...
TRIVIAL PURSUIT TOTALLY 80s Remember the days of Care Bears and Trapper Keepers? This new take on the original Trivial Pursuit focuses on factoids from the early Madonna years, when Rubik's Cubes were hot and Michael Jackson was still known for his music. When '80s is released next month, pop-culture buffs can finally capitalize on all those Cosby Show reruns...
...Buvos Kocka means Magic Cube, but outside Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Erno Rubik. THE DEVICE IS ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED THE HUNGARIAN HORROR, SINCE IT CAN INDUCE TEMPORARY DEMENTIA IN OTHERWISE BALANCED CITIZENS ... It looks innocuous enough?a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color ... The aim of the game is to scramble the colors...