Yes, that infamous cube was released 1980, right in the middle of the Analog Age.
I remember they were all over the place, kids would bring them to school, my parents would see them in the stores, you would hear stories about people solving them in like 2 minutes. There were tons of books written about them and there was even a Saturday morning cartoon about that cube complete with a theme song by Menudo.
My grandparents bought me one as a little gift when they came to visit once. I was really bad at it. There’s something very frustrating about it when you just can’t see any patterns of how to move the colors to the positions you would like.
Somehow, as a kid, I ended up with 3 unsolved Rubik’s Cubes. Perhaps I got them from frustrated folks who no longer wanted them. (I never solved them either.)
So after I saw this post I went over to my boyfriends house that night and found a Pilsner rubik’s cube on the table. I thought it was a strange yet welcoming coincidence!
It was meant to be 🙂
That’s pretty much how I solved the Rubik’s Cube.
I remember after the Cube came out, there were all sorts of other shaped Rubik-inspired puzzles.
Pyramids, Cylinders, even a chain-shaped puzzle.
I never could, and still can’t solve these darn things…..
In all my life, I never thought to do that. Dammit! I’ve been trying to figure it out for the past 3 decades and didn’t think to doing that!