Airport security

[Erik]

Years ago I was asked like two times to show them, but not anymore. Disappointing.

I guess you were hoping for some more drama?

Maybe something like this?

One time when Sébastien and me were flying to a comp. It was early morning and the security staff didn't have much on their hands. They looked at our cubes in the x-ray machine and decided to take a look. After some chit chat about the comp we were going to, the security guy did an explosives test on a cube and a stackmat timer for fun. They passed with flying colours of course ^^ It was kinda interesting to see they actually have a device which non-destructively tests for explosives in stuff.

 

[Sin-H]

I usually always have one or two cubes in my carry-on baggage (often I travel only with carry-on baggage within Europe), and I've never had problems.

Once, when traveling to Wroclaw for Euro 2012, a security guard got confused when looking at the x-rays of my backpack, but his colleague immediately said "oh, these are Rubik's Cubes" in a likeable swiss german dialect. I gotta admit, my backpack then was full of cubes.

Nothing happened to the other competition I flew to, Worlds 2013, although I would have expected intercontinental security to be a bit less relaxed than the ones within EU+Switzerland.