The world’s best-selling toy is 40 years old. The first Rubik’s cube was created in 1974 by Erno Rubik, a professor of architecture in Budapest, Hungary. Then known as the “Magic Cube,” it took its ...

To solve the puzzle, you must twist the cubes so that eventually each side returns to its original color: The challenge is the astounding number of potential variations — more than 43 quintillion of ...

Ten-year-old George Pelham, from Hobart, can solve a full-sized Rubik’s Cube in less than 30 seconds — and is now working on slashing his time further. “I only have 19 more algorithms to learn and ...