Erno has always thought of the Cube primarily as an object of art, a mobile sculpture symbolizing stark contrasts of the human condition: bewildering problems and triumphant intelligence simplicity and complexity stability and dynamism order and chaos.For this magic object to become the most popular toy in history a few chance meetings had to take place. As a teacher, Erno was always looking for new, more exciting ways to present information, so he used the Cube’s first model to help him explain to his students about spatial relationships. Little did he expect that Rubik’s Cube would become the world’s best-selling toy ever. It took well over a month for Erno to work out the solution to his puzzle. A Rubik’s Cube or puzzle cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,856,000 possible combinations, yet there are people in this world who can solve any of them in a matter of seconds. With colourful stickers on its sides, the Cube got scrambled and thus emerged the first “Rubik’s Cube”. His solid cube twisted and turned - and still it did not break or fall apart. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including the Rubiks Cube (1974), Rubiks Magic, Rubiks Magic: Master Edition, and Rubiks Snake. In 1974, a young Professor of architecture in Budapest (Hungary) named Erno Rubik created an object that was not supposed to be possible.
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