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Ernő Rubik. Ernő Rubik (born July 13, 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, sculptor and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock. July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ...
1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ...
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Architecture (in Greek αρχή = first and τέχνη = craftsmanship) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ...
A mechanical puzzle is a puzzle presented a set of mechanically interlinked pieces. ...
Rubiks Cube on a diagonal tilt Rubiks Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik in 1974. ...
Rubiks Magic Rubiks Magic™, like Rubiks Cube™, is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik and first manufactured by Matchbox in the mid-1980s. ...
Rubiks Clock™, like Rubiks Cube™, is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. ...
Biography Rubik was born in wartime Budapest, Hungary. His father was a flight engineer, his mother a poet. He graduated from the Technical University, Budapest (Műszaki Egyetem) in 1967 as an architectural engineer and began postgraduate studies in sculpting and interior architecture. From 1971 to 1975 he worked as an architect, then went back to the academia and became professor at the Budapest College of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Főiskola). Budapest (pronounced BOO-dah-pesht, IPA ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1. ...
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (in Hungarian, Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem or in short Műegyetem) is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary. ...
1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
Architectural engineers apply the skills of many engineering disciplines to the design, construction, maintenance and recycling of buildings. ...
Interior decoration is the art of decorating a room so it looks good, is easy to use, and functions well with the existing architecture. ...
1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...
1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person licensed in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings, or more generally, the designer of a scheme or plan. ...
In the early 1980s, he became editor of a game and puzzle journal called ...És játék ("...and games"), then became self-employed in 1983, founding the Rubik Stúdió, where he designed furniture and games. 1987 he became professor with full tenure; in 1990 he became the president of the Hungarian Engineering Academy (Magyar Mérnöki Akadémia). In the Academy, he created the International Rubik Foundation to support especially talented young engineers and industrial designer. 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Presently he is mainly working on video game development and architectural topics and is still leading the Rubik Studios. A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...
Rubik's Puzzles and Games Below is a list of some of the puzzles released under the "Rubik" brand name of Ernö Rubik. . Ernő Rubik (born July 13, 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, sculptor and professor of architecture. ...
Cube-like Puzzles Rubiks Cube on a diagonal tilt Rubiks Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik in 1974. ...
Categories: Toys stubs | Mathematical recreations and puzzles ...
Rubiks Revenge is the 4x4x4 version of Rubiks Cube. ...
The Professors Cube (also known as Rubiks Professor) is a mechanical puzzle invented by Udo Krell. ...
The pieces of a Soma cube (with extra coloring) The same puzzle, assembled into a cube The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle created by Piet Hein during a lecture on quantum mechanics by Werner Heisenberg. ...
Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 18, 1996) was a scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel meaning tombstone. His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under...
The pieces of a Soma cube (with extra coloring) The same puzzle, assembled into a cube The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle created by Piet Hein during a lecture on quantum mechanics by Werner Heisenberg. ...
Other Classic Puzzles Rubiks Magic Rubiks Magic™, like Rubiks Cube™, is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik and first manufactured by Matchbox in the mid-1980s. ...
Rubiks Clock™, like Rubiks Cube™, is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. ...
The 90s Collection - Rubik's Triamid
- Rubik's Tangle
- Rubik's Dice
- Rubik's XV
Other Puzzles - Rubik's Double Tangram
- Rubik's Maze
- Rubik's Rings
- Rubik's Shells
- Rubik's Tangle (a series of jigsaw-type puzzles, with square pieces; the aim is to create a tangle of ropes that join end to end)
- Rubik's UFO
- Zigzaw (a jigsaw puzzle)
Tangram (七巧板; Hanyu Pinyin: qī qiǎo bǎn; Cantonese: chi chae pan; literally Seven-Board of Cunning) is an ancient Chinese puzzle. ...
Multi-player games - Rubik's Brain Game
- Two-player game;
- One player acts as the "Codemaster", creating a hidden pattern; the other player has to guess this in as few turns as possible.
- Rubik's Challenge aka Rubik's Game
- Cube-shaped game
- Two to six players
- Rubi's Checker's Challenge
- Game of checkers with a twist.
- Each piece begins with the full power of a King, moving diagonally forwards and backwards and jumping captures as in regular checkers.
- Upon a first capture a piece is flipped over to the pawn-side with its movement then reduced to a backwards direction only. A second capture of the same piece removes it from the game.
- Rubik's Eclipse
- Two-player board game;
- Possibly a re-presented of the Magic Strategy Game with different designs for the playing pieces.
- Rubik's Illusion
- Two-player abstract strategy game;
- the board is constructed as eight playing spaces wide, by four real playing spaces deep, with a mirror at the far edge of the board making the total depth of play eight spaces.
- Rubik's Infinity
- Two-player strategy game;
- each player has marbles of a certain colour;
- the aim is to make as many rows of four marbles as possible whilst preventing your opponent from doing the same.
- Rubik's Line Up
- Rubik's Magic Strategy Game (two-player abstract strategy board game)
- Rubik's Race
- two player game
- each player has a five by five sliding puzzle
- the object is to make the central three by three square into a certain pattern.
An abstract strategy game is a board game with perfect information, no chance, and (usually) two players. ...
An abstract strategy game is a board game with perfect information, no chance, and (usually) two players. ...
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