Rubik's Cube And Industrial Property Puzzles

There are two categories of people: those who at least once in their lives have tried to pit their wits against a Rubik's cube and those who lie about it (most likely to avoid having to admit defeat).

It would appear, however, that the cube's inventor himself, the Hungarian professor of architecture and sculptor Ernö Rubik, took more than a month to put the sides of his creation back in order.

The first cube, made of wood and brown in colour, was actually invented by Rubik in 1974 with the aim of explaining to his students at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts how it was possible to move part of a structure without causing it to break.

In the years that followed, what had meanwhile been renamed in Hungarian as the "Magic Cube" began to be sold in game stores in Europe and the United States in a version more like the one we know today, i.e., plastic and with coloured sides, quickly becoming a popular puzzle.