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Cubing Fun Facts

Fun Fact: Erno Rubik, a Hungarian professor of architecture created his cube as a way to demonstrate the movements of 3-dimensional figures to his students. It wasn't until he'd put different patterns and colors onto each faces and made multiple turns that he realized he'd actually created a puzzle. He spent over a month on the first solve. At times, even he thought that solving it may have been impossible. After completing the solve, he decided to try and get it mass produced as a toy/puzzle. Once he found a producer willing to produce, promote and sell his puzzle, people were amazed by it. Rubik's Cube became an immediate hit, something almost everyone had to get their hands on and try to figure out. To this day, it remains the best selling toy of all time!
 
Fun Fact: Erno Rubik, a Hungarian professor of architecture created his cube as a way to demonstrate the movements of 3-dimensional figures to his students. It wasn't until he'd put different patterns and colors onto each faces and made multiple turns that he realized he'd actually created a puzzle. He spent over a month on the first solve. At times, even he thought that solving it may have been impossible. After completing the solve, he decided to try and get it mass produced as a toy/puzzle. Once he found a producer willing to produce, promote and sell his puzzle, people were amazed by it. Rubik's Cube became an immediate hit, something almost everyone had to get their hands on and try to figure out. To this day, it remains the best selling toy of all time!
fun fact: Hundsrian is the only Indo'-European based language that
We Don't Know Where It Comes From.
seriously
Hungarian doesn't trace back to any known languages 🤯
 
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fun fact: Hundsrian is the only Indo'-Ruropean based language that
We Don't Know Where It Comes From.
seriously
Hungarian doesn't trace back tk any known languages 🤯
We know it's part of the uralic language family, being distantly related to languages such as finnish and estonian. we have several proposed hypothesis for the origin of proto-uralic, so i wouldnt say its completely unknown
 
Fun Fact: Erno Rubik, a Hungarian professor of architecture created his cube as a way to demonstrate the movements of 3-dimensional figures to his students. It wasn't until he'd put different patterns and colors onto each faces and made multiple turns that he realized he'd actually created a puzzle. He spent over a month on the first solve. At times, even he thought that solving it may have been impossible. After completing the solve, he decided to try and get it mass produced as a toy/puzzle. Once he found a producer willing to produce, promote and sell his puzzle, people were amazed by it. Rubik's Cube became an immediate hit, something almost everyone had to get their hands on and try to figure out. To this day, it remains the best selling toy of all time!
I highly doubt Rubik ever deemed it possible to be impossible to solve any legal state. He would have certainly known that any state you can produce from the solved state has to be solvable or else it would not have been possible to get there in the first place.
 
I highly doubt Rubik ever deemed it possible to be impossible to solve any legal state. He would have certainly known that any state you can produce from the solved state has to be solvable or else it would not have been possible to get there in the first place.

Potentially worded poorly on my part. Obviously he knew that it could somehow be returned to a solved state. However, during that month, he had moments where he was very frustrated and thought that he may never be able to accomplish it.
 
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