The Official Rubik's Cube

The world's top-selling puzzle game - over 350 million cubes have been sold worldwide since it's creation by Erno Rubik in 1974.

Introduce the most perfect - and addictive - puzzle to a new generation, or bring back some fond memories. Regardless of which, it'll keep you pretty busy with over 43 quintillion possible pattern combinations (that's 43 million millions), but just one right one!

For such a popular and challenging puzzle, the Rubik's Cube actually has a pretty straightforward premise. The faces of the cube are covered by nine stickers in six solid colours (one colour for each side); when the puzzle is solved by a unique turning action, each face is one solid colour.

This original Rubiks Cube has reflective red, white, blue, yellow, green, and orange coloured stickers with an official Rubik's sticker in the centre white square. The cube is packaged in a clear blister pack and includes a black display stand.

Once you start twisting and turning, you won't be able to stop until it's solved. And you just might be lining-up at cubeaholics anonymous!

Age: 8 +

What You Get

The Speed Cube in a blister pack.

How Does It Work?

Each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours - white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. An internal pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be returned to consisting of one colour.

Teach

• Mathematical patterns
• Algorithms

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.