'I had the feeling I'm not alone in the world. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik’s Cube (1974), Rubik’s Magic, Rubik’s Magic: Master Edition, and Rubik’s Snake. 'It had some kind of magnetic force for us,' he says. Ern Rubik ( born 13 July 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture.

More difficult, more enjoyment to solve it,' he says.Īnd he loved that the cube tapped into a community of people worldwide who felt the same way. (Solution books were also quite popular in those years, he says.)īut Rubik found the toughness of the puzzle - the billion ways to scramble it – deeply motivating. 'To play with it and to show to others: I can do it. People tended not to buy difficult puzzles, he explains.īut the Rubik's Cube, 'made it really fashionable to have a puzzle,' he says. Rubik never imagined it would have that kind of appeal. In the first three years that the cube was licensed to an American company, it sold 100 million copies around the world. He is the author or co-author of 12 books, including his three books on questioning: A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough. Rubik Ern A mi kockánk cím könyve néhány hónappal ezeltt jelent meg Japánban, és egybl beválogatták a középiskolásoknak leginkább ajánlott nyári olvasmányok közé.

Getty Images A mother and son wearing Rubik's Cube costumes walk in flooded Saint Mark's Square on the last day of Carnival on March 4, 2014, in Venice, Italy. A Rubik-kocka könyv nemzetközi sikere Nézd meg a külföldi borítókat 2022.08.24.

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