{"id":62,"date":"2024-07-22T19:08:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cele.bluecar.site\/2024\/07\/22\/inventor-of-the-rubiks-cube-turns-80-50-years-of-the-worlds-most-popular-puzzle-toy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T19:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:08:52","slug":"inventor-of-the-rubiks-cube-turns-80-50-years-of-the-worlds-most-popular-puzzle-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cele.bluecar.site\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Inventor of the Rubik’s Cube turns 80 – 50 years of the world’s most popular puzzle toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fifty years ago, while sitting in his mother’s apartment in Budapest, Hungary, the young professor, Ern\u00c5’ Rubik, finally completed the prototype of the “Magic Cube”.<\/p>\n

A teacher in the Department of Interior Design, Rubik was fascinated by geometry, but his attempts to create a solid, 3D structure with movable and interchangeable layers had frustrated him. <\/p>\n

But after months of persistence, Rubik struck gold – not that he was thinking of any commercial opportunities. “I did it just for my own curiosity,” he told The Post in a video call. “I suppose it’s like being an artist. If you’re happy with your creation, you want to show it to people. <\/p>\n

“You want her to like you.”<\/p>\n

Ern\u00c5’ Rubik, who turns 80 on July 13, completed the prototype of his “Magic Cube” 50 years ago. AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Half a century and 500 million sales later, it is estimated that one in seven people on the planet has tried to solve what has become the Rubik’s Cube, a puzzle with 43 quintillion permutations.<\/p>\n