Rubik's Cube: The Inventor's AgonyThe solitary struggle to solve the first prototype
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The Secret Life of ObjectsDiscover the accidental origin story of the world's most famous puzzle. Architecture professor Ernő Rubik originally designed the block to teach structural movement, not to frustrate millions. He spent a terrifying month trapped in his apartment fearing he had created an unsolvable object, making the struggle to solve it a truly shared experience.
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