Puzzling Facts About Puzzle

What is Puzzle?

Puzzle is something that makes us think.

In technical terms, a puzzle can be described as an activity that requires ingenuity and often persistence in solving or assembling.

In a puzzle, one is required to put pieces together, in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct solution of the puzzle. There are different types of puzzles for different ages.

Puzzles are often devised as a form of entertainment but they can also arise from serious mathematical or logistical problems. In such cases, their solution may be a significant contribution to mathematical research.

All of us know this puzzle...Rubik’s Cube…

Let me tell you some puzzling facts about this 

Hungarian Horror..

Rubik’s Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and Professor of Architecture Ernő Rubik.

It took him One Month before he was able to solve the Cube for himself. He wanted a working model to explain 3-Dimensional Geometry.

The Rubik’s cube was first called the Magic cube but was renamed in 1980 for its global release.

Over 350 Million Rubik’s Cubes have been sold worldwide – making it the best selling puzzle of all time.

A normal cube has 21 pieces, consisting of one core, 8 corners, and 12 edges, and a total of 54 stickers.

There are different variations of Rubik's Cubes with up to seventeen layers: the 2×2×2 (Pocket/Mini Cube), the standard 3×3×3 cube, the 4×4×4 (Rubik's Revenge/Master Cube), and the 5×5×5 (Professor's Cube), the 6×6×6 (V-Cube 6), and 7×7×7 (V-Cube 7). 

There are 43 Quintillion that is 43 * 10¹⁸   ways to scramble a standard cube. 

How much is that?
If someone start scrambling for every permutation. And kept on each other, they could cover The Earth in 273 layers. 

273 layers of Rubik’s cube are approximate equal to height of Boeing Jumbo Jet.

Whether a Rubik's Cube fan was a self-solver, speed cuber, or "smasher", they had all become obsessed with the small, simple-looking puzzle.

During the height of its popularity, Rubik's Cubes could be found everywhere -- at school, on buses, in movie theaters, and even at work.

In 1983, Rubik's Cube even had its own television show, called Rubik, the Amazing Cube. 

The ability to solve a Rubik's Cube quickly is often used as a way of establishing a character's high intelligence. The pursuit of happiness, Dil Chahta Hai, My Name is Khan, 3 Idiots and many more.

Now The Amazing Records of solving this cube.

The best speedcubers (people who take part in speedcubing – a sport where competitors try and solve the cube as quickly as possible) can solve the cube in under 6.30 seconds.

The current world record for single time on a 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube was set by Mats Valk of the Netherlands in March 2013 with a time of 5.55 seconds at the Zonhoven Open in Belgium.

In April 2014, Antoine Cantin from Canada made  record of solving 3x3x3 cube one-handed  10.63 seconds.  

Our City, Pune also holds one record. On November 4, 2012, 3248 people, mainly students successfully solved the Rubik's cube in 30 minutes. The successful attempt is recorded in not only Limca Book of Records but also Guiness Book of Records. 

Why to solve puzzles?
Psychological study says that by solving or studying puzzles you experience many positive emotions like curiosity, joy, pride, surprise, wonder and creativity within short time. 

This nurtures our thinking.

And you never know, when you'll get chance to become officially amazing.So, Keep Solving, Enjoy it…