With over 43 quintillion (that's 43 quintillion) configurations & only 1 answer, the rubiks cube tip, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2005 is nonetheless the smartest puzzle on the earth.
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Its not possible stop playing - there's a Cubaholics Anonymous - the is an icon of the age, and remains the best-selling puzzle in the planet. The current record is an astonishing 12.54 seconds and theres also records for working at it 1-handed, currently 27.62 seconds, and believe it or not working at it blindfolded at 2 minutes 41.54 seconds.
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It's more than likely that these kinds of records are well past the ability of normal persons - because there is not anything normal about completing a 1 in 43 quintillion puzzle in thirteen seconds - but whether it takes mins, hours or days, the rubiks cube tip is still the king of un-putdownable puzzles. Are you up to the challenge?
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The rubiks cube tip was invented by Hungarian citizen Erno Rubik, a teacher at the Budapest College of Applied Arts, who produced a working prototype in 1974. Within one year of the launch in 1980 rubiks cube tip had developed into the greatest-selling puzzle the universe had ever celebrated. rubiks cube tip is now the most popular selling puzzle ever created with over 250 million rubiks cube tip sold.
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Rubik lives in Budapest. Tibor Laczi, a business friend, said when he initially met him, 'When Rubik walked into the room I felt like giving him some money. He looked like a beggar! He was terribly dressed, and he had a cheap Hungarian cigarette hanging out of his mouth. But I knew I had a genius on my hands.'
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In the wake of Rubik's success having returned from a business conference in the United States, Laczi declared, 'It was his first trip to the West, and he didn't ask me to take him anywhere after the press conference.
Most Hungarians that come here want to look at shops or buy jewellery or visit a bar. Rubik went back to his hotel. He was always that way, even after the money started. The first thing he did was embark on smoking better cigarettes!'
