It took well over a month for Rubik to work out the solution to his puzzle. Designed primarily as a mobile sculpture symbolising the stark contrasts of the human condition-bewildering problems and triumphant intelligence, simplicity and complexity, stability and dynamism, order and chaos-it ended up becoming the world's best-selling toy ever.
The original Rubik's Cube - which won "toy of the year" in Britain in 1980 - is plastic, with nine coloured squares on each face.
The object is to move the pieces around until each side of the cube is a solid colour.
"Most of my adult life I spent with the cube because I was only 30 (years old) when I created it. And right now, after 40 years I can say: 'I know the cube, I know what happened around the cube,'" Rubik said in an interview to Reuters.
There are many forms of the cube on show - from the first simple wooden prototypes to a bejewelled version worth $2.5 million.
The first Rubik's world championship was held in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary, where the winner solved the cube in 22.95 seconds. The record for the fastest solving a Rubik's Cube is held by a robot.
The CUBESTORMER 3 robot, running on ARM processor, smashed the Guinness World Record title for solving a Rubik's Cube, recording a time of 3.253 seconds at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, UK in March this year.
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