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The world's best-selling toy.

Here are a few facts:

Originally advertised as having over 3 billion permutations, apparently there are actually over 43 quintillion, that's 43 followed by fifteen zeroes.

The centre squares on each side don't move and under the surface are joined together as one piece forming the skeleton of the cube about which all the other cubes rotate.

Google worked out that it should be possible to solve it in 20 moves.

Most people solve it layer by layer but it is actually better to solve a 2x2x2 block, enlarge it to a 2x2x3 block and then sort out the incorrect edges.

The world record solving time is 3.47 seconds.  A robot achieved it in 0.38 seconds. The world record using feet only is 15.56 seconds.  

I can't do it.

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Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

SG452

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Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Get the rabbits back safely to their burrows by jumping over the mushrooms and foxes.

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

My favourite of all the excellent Smart Games.

SG421

Fiendish brain game with an apple and five worms to fit inside.

Choose a challenge.  Place the first worms in the base of the apple where indicated and then work out where the remaining worms go so that the top of the apple fits on snugly. You need logic and lots of spatial insight.

Booklet with 80 challenges, starting easy then then getting harder.

Compact size so ideal as a travel game.  The apple is about 7 cm across.

Age suitability: 8+ years.

Single person brain teaser game for children age 5 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Three hungry worms want to share an apple.

Choose one of the sixty challenges.  Twist the apple board so it matches the one shown in the challenge and then work out where to position the three bendy worms.

 

 

 

SG445

Fiendish brain game with eight 'marbles' and their perspex cage.

Each marble has specific bumps and holes in its surface and the trick is to align these so that all eight marbles fit in the cage.  You need logic and lots of spatial insight.

Booklet of 80 challenges from relatively easy to totally impossible.

Compact size, about 6cm cubed.

Age suitability: 10+ years.

Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Get the rabbits back safely to their burrows by jumping over the mushrooms and foxes.

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

My favourite of all the excellent Smart Games.

SG421

Test your brainpower by manoeuvring the squirrels around the board so that they drop the nuts in the holes.

Single player brain teaser game for children aged 6 onwards.  There is a booklet with 60 different challenges.  The early ones are relatively straightforward but the harder ones will stretch many an adult.

To see more, please watch the video:

SG425

Single person brain teaser game for older children and adults.

BMove the skeletons around the graveyard so that the girl and her black cat can escape.

80 challenges.  The first ones are straightforward but the final ones will be nigh impossible (at least for me).

Age suitability: 10 years old to adult.

Single person brain teaser game for pre-school children.

Based on the story of the Wolf and the Seven Goats, you have to work out where to put the pieces on the board so that all the goats are safely hidden from the wolf.

48 challenges.  The first ones are straightforward but the final ones will cause a fair bit of chin-scratching in many adults.

Age suitability: 3-7 years old.