Creative Puzzles

Ernö Rubik was born in the air-raid shelter of a Budapest hospital during World War II. His mother was a published poet, his father a renowned aircraft engineer who started a company to build gliders.

After graduating from college classes in sculpture, he went back to learn architecture at a small college called the Academy of Applied Arts and Design. He remained there as a professor, teaching interior design and generally keeping to himself

This puzzle, invented by Rubik in 1974, called the Magic Cube (Buvuos Kocka) in Hungary, was renamed Rubik's Cube

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To play this virtual cube use the mouse to manipulate it.

S = Scramble

R = Restore

"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. Our whole life is solving puzzles. If you are hungry, you have to find something to eat. But everyday problems are very mixed -- they're not clear. The Cube's problem depends just on you. You can solve it independently. But to find happiness in life, you're not independent. That's the only big difference." Ernö Rubik

For those who want to learn to solve the cube, there is a very nice downloadable cube solver here made by Maarten van Gestel.