Rubik's Cube - Rubik's Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik. Originally called the 'Magic Cube' by its inventor, this puzzle was renamed 'Rubik's Cube' by Ideal Toys in 1980 and also won the 1980 German 'Game of the Year' special award for Best Puzzle. It is said to be the world's best-selling toy, with some 300,000,000 Rubik's Cubes and imitations sold worldwide. A Rubik's Cube has nine square facelets on each side, giving fifty-four facelets in total, and occupies a volume of twenty-seven unit cubes. Typicall, the faces of the cube are covered by nine stickers in six solid colours; there is one colour for each side of the cube. When the puzzle is solved, each face of teh cube is a solid colour. Source: Wikipedia