Rubik’s Revolution

The Rubik’s Cube is moving with the times and hoping a new generation of children will become as addicted to the Rubik’s challenge as the 80’s generation were. The new Rubik’s Revolution is the latest offering.

Mr Rubik invented his life-changing cube puzzle in Hungary in 1974 but it didn’t make its appearance outside of Hungary until the 1980’s. It hit the world by storm and certainly changed everyone’s life. I don’t recall anyone NOT having a cube at some point of their life.

Many a wet weekend was spent trying to solve the cube. I must admit I did cheat several times by using the ‘peel off the sticker’ method, to try and make the cube look more complete than it actually was. My conscience always won out though and the guilt made me swap them back within the hour, although it was evident I had been tampering as the stickers never went back on as straight as they should have done, nor were they as sticky.

6 challenges await you with the Rubik’s Revolution Cube which is now an electronic, light and sound effect puzzle cube. Get through one level before you can access the next, just to make it extra frustrating. You can also get extra stickers for free if they wear off with all that frantic playing.

Light Speed, Rapid Recharge, Pattern Panic, Multiplayer Madness, Cube Catcher and Code Cracker are the levels and seem to vary between colour, sound and pattern matching games. You cannot rotate the cube like the original, you have to rotate the whole cube in your hands to access the clickable buttons in the centre of each face.

The new Rubik’s Revolution is nothing like the original cube and has had mixed reviews since its launch in certain parts of the world. Some love it, others hate it. Watch some kids play one of the games here, it is likely they have never seen the original, but they seem to find this latest edition pretty fun

We shall have to wait for a little while before we can get it in the UK though and it’s likely to set you back about a tenner.

Want the original while you’re waiting?Get it from Amazon for £8.99

Some Rubik’s Facts and Figures

• The latest Rubik’s Cube World Championship have seen a13 year old Japanese boy complete the puzzle in just under 13 seconds but it wasn’t enough to take the title, currently held by a Frenchman who set the world record in May this year, a record time of 9.86 seconds. It puts my effort to shame, I still haven’t completed it in 19+ years!

• The Cube is reported to have about 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations

• In 1981 a German couple divorced. The reason? The husband supposedly spent more time with his Rubik’s Cube than his wife!

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