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What are Rubik Cubes?

Shikha Saxena
3 min readMar 5, 2024

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Brain exercise with tact and patience

Photo by Elijah Ekdahl on Unsplash

Rubik cubes are 3-D combination puzzel extremely popular in Gen X kids. They used to be a rage during 80s and one of the most popular and common gifts for teenagers. You were considered brainy and with high IQ if you held one in your hand, trying to solve the same through different combinations. What are Rubik Cubes? Let us explore more!

Rubik Cube

The Rubik’s Cube is a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and architecture professor, Ernő Rubik.

It consists of 26 small cubes called “cubelets” or “cubies”, that rotate on a central axis. It is a big cube with six faces, each divided into nine smaller squares of six solid colors: white, yellow, orange, red, green, and blue.

The objective of the puzzle is to manipulate the cube by rotating its faces so that each face is a single color.

How to solve Rubik Cube?

Following YouTube video might help in solving the Rubik Cube puzzle:

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Shikha Saxena
Shikha Saxena

Written by Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing, NY.http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/

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