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News: Rubiks Cube World Record Broken After Just 5 Weeks With Stunning 4.373 Time From Feliks Zemdegs
Just over a month ago, the Rubik's Cube world record was smashed by Mats Valk, a Dutch speedcuber, during the Jawa Timur Open 2016. Valk was able to shave 0.16 seconds off the previous record of 4.90 seconds, which was a pretty impressive feat.
News: This Insanely Fast Robot Solved a Rubik's Cube in Just 0.637 Seconds
In December of last year, Australian Feliks Zemdegs broke the human world record for solving a Rubik's Cube with a time of 4.737 seconds. Well, this robot did it way, way faster by solving one in under 1 second. Don't tell me a robot takeover isn't real possibility.
News: Rubik's Cube World Record Gets Shattered in 4.74 Seconds
In 4.74 seconds, I can barely bend over to tie my shoes, and somehow this guy managed to crush the human world record for solving the Rubik's Cube in that time exactly.
Checkmate and... Checkmate: Bizarre Three-Way Chess Game
In a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory, character Sheldon Cooper designed a highly complicated three-person game of chess, with an odd-shaped nonagon board and two new pieces—serpent and old woman. Seemingly pioneering, in truth, three-player chess has been around since the early-1700s, with many different variations, most of which retain the basic game structure and sixteen pieces that each player controls.
News: Android App Solves the Unfathomable Mexaminx (Think Rubik's Cube on Steroids)
The Android Megaminxer is mind-bogglingly elaborate, impressively combining multiple geeky mediums to solve an incredibly complex puzzle. ARM, the genius behind the stunt, uses LEGOs (a Mindstorms NXT kit to be exact) to build a robot responsible for the mechanics; they then employ an Android app as the brain, which solves a Rubik's Cube—oh wait, not a simple Rubik's (that would be too easy), but a Megaminx, which is a dodecahedron with 12 faces, each face containing 5 edges. Like the classic...
Permutate This: World's First 17x17x17 Rubik’s Cube
First came the Rubik’s cube, a simple 3x3 puzzle. Then came Rubik’s Revenge, a 4x4 monstrosity. Eventually, the real whizzes attempted to conquer the V-Cube 6 and the V-Cube 7.
News: Advanced Rock-Paper-Scissors
Try bending your mind around this one: HowTo take your classic game of Rock-Paper-Scissors to the next level. From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Comics:
News: Billiards, Wonderland Style (Or: A Pool Table the Size of a Pool)
For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. She found herself on the flat bottom of a shallow, felted basin. 'I declare it's marked out just like a large billiards table!' Alice said at last.
News: The Movable Type Rubik's Cube
Love this Rubik's Cube stamp with movable type Chinese characters by Shaun Chung. Chung laser-etched the characters from wood, and then adhered them to a regular Rubik's Cube to create verses from a traditional Chinese text.
News: And You Thought a Normal Sized Rubik's Cube Was Hard To Solve...
Below, Evgeniy Grigoriev's fully functional Rubik's Cube has been shrunk down to 10mm (that's less than half an inch). Why? Grigoriev roped in world record status with his one-of-a-kind cube fit for fairies and dwarves. Actually, I think it's too tiny even for dwarves.
God Has Spoken: Algorithm Reveals Secret Number for the Rubik's Cube
By "God," I mean Morley Davidson, John Dethridge, Herbert Kociemba, Tomas Rokicki and about 35 CPU-years.
News: 125 Piece Puzzle With a Deadly Secret
It's a puzzle. It's a gun. It's awesome. Titled "The Intimidator", this 125-piece puzzle requires a special key to disassemble. Once disassembled, 20 of the 125 pieces can be pieced to form a real working single shot pistol.
News: What's This Chinese Baby Been Eating? 3-Year-Old Solves Rubik's Cube in 114 Seconds
Holy crap. Um, I can't solve a rubik's cube, period. This baby has totally shamed me. Time to learn.
News: The World's Shortest Game of Monopoly: 21 Seconds
Time to call up Guinness. Professors of Notre Dame University have supposedly invented the shortest possible game of Monopoly. Over in four turns (that's just nine rolls).
News: LEGO Robot Can Solve 100×100x100 Rubik's Cubes
MultiCuber achieves another world's first: the timed relay solve of 2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 Rubik's cubes.
News: Android Can Now Solve the Rubik's Cube
Well, only if you also happen to have an ARM powered LEGO Speedcuber device. Promotional video by maker David Gilday for ARM Ltd. With the help of the Android, the machine cracks the Rubik's Cube in 25 seconds (compare to LEGO Mindstorms solvers' 4 seconds.... or the human record of 7 seconds). Previously, Wow-Worthy Hack: Android Running on iPhone.
News: Robot Solves Rubik's Cube Wicked Fast!
Self proclaimed, "The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot", this little guy is built entirely from LEGOs. Apparently the Cubestormer can solve any 3x3x3 Rubik's cube combination in under 12 seconds, and the last single solve in the video happens in just 4:01 seconds!
1,000 Part Rubik's Cube: $3,550 Petaminx
Move over Rubik's Cube, there's a new puzzle in town. The Petaminx. The beautifully designed and custom built Petaminx has almost 1,000 moving parts. Peta- actually means 1,000,000,000,000,000, although that number could refer to the endless number of solutions.
News: Swede Concocts Rubik's and Sudoku Brainiac LEGO-Bots
Sweden's Hans Andersson, has a new way of solving both the Rubik's Cube and Sudoku puzzles... ROBOTS. That's right, memorizing lengthy algorithms or racking your brain with numbers is no longer required to solve these perplexing puzzles.
News: Cup Stacking at Unimaginable Speed
To say Steven Purugganan is fast is an understatement. The twelve-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts has won two Cup Stacking world championships, and appeared in commercials for McDonald's and Firefox.
Eat to Win: Sudoku Pizza
"Sudoku art that's good enough to eat", says Colordoku, the creator of this both yummy & clever Sudoku pizza.
News: Win at Rock, Paper, Scissors
We know what you're thinking? Win? With strategy?
News: Craft a Steampunk chess set
We love these Gomi Style guys. Creators of past sensations like the cardboard chair and aqua mirror, here they come with a new inspiration. Steampunk!
News: Blow human-sized giant bubbles
These bubbles are incredible. The key to their stable state is in the homemade bubble recipe.
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