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Rubik’s 360
If you are still trying to solve the 1980's most infuriating puzzle, then quake in your boots because now there is a new challenge to take. The people behind the original sensation the Rubik’s Cube have a new brain-teaser which launched on 15th June 2009.
It’s called the Rubik’s 360. According to the man himself, Professor Erno Rubik, the 360 takes the puzzle concept into another dimension. Literally. As its name suggests, the 360 is spherical as opposed to cube-shaped. Says the Professor, “I feel that the Rubik’s 360 is one of the most innovative and exciting puzzles we’ve developed since the Cube – adopting elements of my original design, challenging the solver to use skill, dexterity and logic. But it’s a more kinetic challenge, more physical, because gravity is involved. We all have great hopes for it.”
Professor Erno Rubik’s fiendish plastic puzzle first hit the shops just before Christmas 1980, quickly becoming the fastest-selling toy of all time. Rubik, an architect and University lecturer in then Communist Hungary, had spent six years struggling to get his prototype – originally designed as a teaching aid for his students – into commercial production.
So what is a Rubik's 360?
The Rubik’s 360 is 10 centimetres or so in diameter, and consists of a transparent plastic sphere housing two further internal transparent spheres, both independently suspended on a rotating axis, with six coloured balls at its centre. In essence, the object of the puzzle is to steer the coloured balls through holes in the spheres and into their respective coloured ‘home slot’ domes on the outside.
But along the way you have to contend with the problem of gravity… Just like the original Rubik's Cube, you don’t have to solve it in one go. The 360 has special horizontal rings to ‘lock’ the balls in place once you’ve captured them correctly on its circumference. So you don’t have to start all over again if you make a mistake or get too tired (or frustrated!) to continue.
Could it be the 'next big thing' just like it's big brother? Only time will tell.
The Rubik's 360 is available at Hamleys, Play.com and Find Me A Gift.
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