The first test batches of the Magic Cube were produced in late 1977 and released in Nuremberg and New York in January and February 1980Īfter its international debut, the progress of the Cube towards the toy shop shelves of the West was briefly halted so that it could be manufactured to The Gordian Knot" and "Inca Gold" were considered, but the company finally decided on "Rubik's Cube", and the first batch was exported from Hungary in May 1980 Taking advantage of an initial shortage of Cubes, many imitations and variations appeared Intellectual property In the mid-1970s, Ernő Rubik worked at the Department of Interior Design at the Magic Cube" in 1975 Rubik's Cube was first called the Magic Cube (Bűvös kocka) in Hungary The puzzle had not been patented internationally within a year of the original patent Patent law then prevented the possibility of an international patent Ideal wanted at least a recognizable name to trademark of course, that arrangement put Rubik in the spotlight because the Magic Cube was renamed after its inventor in 1980 On April 9, 1970, Frank Fox applied to patent his "Spherical 3×3×3" He received his UK patent (1344259) on JanuRubik's invention In March 1970, Larry Nichols invented a 2×2×2 "Puzzle with Pieces Rotatable in Groups" and filed a Canadian patent application for it Nichols's cube was held together with magnets Nichols was granted US Patent 3,655,201 on April 11, 1972, two years before Rubik invented his Cube In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow, where white is opposite yellow, blue is opposite green, and orange is opposite red, and the red, white and blue are arranged in that order in a clockwise arrangement) An internal pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be returned to consisting of one colour Similar puzzles have now been produced with various numbers of sides, dimensions, and stickers, not all of them by RubikĪlthough the Rubik's Cube reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1980s, it is still widely known and used Many World Cube Association, the Rubik's Cube's international governing body, has organized competitions and kept the official world records Conception and development Prior attempts Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp in 1980 via German businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the german Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year As of January 2009, 350 million cubes had been sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy
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