Happy 40th, Rubik's Cube (and check out Google's Doodle)

dave posted a pic said Mon, May 19th 2014 at 10:40am ET

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the original 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube, Google put a live one on as their logo. It's a little awkward to traverse, but totally works. And if you solve it, you get a little high score callout:

Plus, they've got a cool cube lab where you can play with and make other cube experiments. (Oddly it's called a Chrome lab, though it seems to work fine in Safari.)

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JonT said Mon, May 19th 2014 at 2:57pm ET:

I had a few friends that got really into Rubik's cubes and eventually could solve them in a few minutes. They both tried to teach me and it just never stuck, but I like watching those speed solving competition and robots solving videos.

@dave I think this should be your next challenge:

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- katylava said Mon, May 19th 2014 at 3:06pm ET
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- I've played with that one, but honestly most of the challenge is even just getting everything lined up for a single turn.
  
  dave said Mon, May 19th 2014 at 4:15pm ET
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JonT said Mon, May 26th 2014 at 11:24pm ET:

@dave here's an 8 hour tutorial video to help you out:

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- This one's actually one layer more complicated than that previous one. Pretty absurd.
  
  dave said Tue, May 27th 2014 at 9:54am ET
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