Using 35 years of Google-donated CPU time, a team of researchers found that every possible configuration of the Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. Personally, I’ve almost got all the yellows on one side.
This cube may look like hell’s version of Jenga, but it’s actually an elaborate, 125-piece puzzle. The solution? A single-shot 45-calibre muzzle-loading pistol called the Intimidator. No, seriously. See for yourself.
I’m not one of those people who ever figured out the secrets of the original Rubik’s Cube, so it was with some trepidation that I tried out the Rubik’s Slide, the newest take on the classic toy. It was hard.
I can’t imagine the $US30,000 Superplexus puzzle as a real product. All I see is a boy who’s trapped some sort of ligneous, sapient life form in a sphere. And he’s spinning it, slowly.
Oh, to have enough time in the day to spend on this Mintpass puzzle calendar, which takes inspiration from those sliding-puzzle games we had as kids… only this time, with the day’s date. Yes, really.
You could print a favourite picture and then cut it into puzzle pieces, sure. But what if, instead, you could use one puzzle to make any image?
Meet the IQ Pentagon: a 4-inch Rubik’s Cube-like puzzle that’s probably so infuriatingly complex that it’s got a better chance of ending up embedded in your TV screen than a Wiimote. But hey, maybe that’s just me.
