Celebrate 40 Years of the Rubik’s Cube By Playing Google’s Doodle

Everyone ’s favourite retro mystifier , the Rubik ’s Cube , is 40 years old today . To lionize , this morning ’s Google Doodlelets you reset the puzzle right there in your internet browser — which signify you just lost your dejeuner break . Sorry .

The Cube was formulate back in 1974 by Magyar architect Erno Rubik , designed as a model to aid explain three - dimensional geometry . Later certify to the Ideal Toy Corp in 1980 , it ’s gone on to sell 350 million unit — gain it the world ’s top - selling puzzler game .

While it ’s possible to solve it in as little as six seconds — and every legally muddled block is solvable in just 20 move — for most of us , it ’s at least good for entertainment until thrown across the room in thwarting . ( There are , after all , 43 quintillion replacement of the cube . ) Anyway , go play the Google Doodle version . It ’s playfulness . And if you need more of a challenge , how abouttrying this 11×11 versioninstead ? [ Google ]

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