Ern? Rubik

Ern? Rubik (born July 13, 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, sculptor and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock.

Rubik's Puzzles and Games

Below is a list of some of the puzzles released under the "Rubik" brand name.

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Cube-like Puzzles

• Rubik's Cube
• Pocket Cube or Mini-Cube (2x2x2 version of the cube)
• Rubik's Revenge (4×4×4 version of the cube)
• Professor's Cube (5×5×5 version of the cube)
• Rubik's Soma Puzzle, aka Rubik's Mini-Bricks (a variation of Piet Hein's Soma Cube: a set of different shaped bricks that can be assembled into different shapes - aim is to construct a cube)

Other Classic Puzzles

• Rubik's Magic
• Rubik's Clock
• Rubik's Twist (composed of 24 wedges that can be arranged to form different shapes)

The 90s Collection

• Rubik's Triamid
• Rubik's Tangle
• Rubik's Dice
• Rubik's XV

Other Puzzles

• Rubik's Double Tangram
• Rubik's Maze
• Rubik's Rings
• Rubik's Royal Brain Teaser
• 440 piece jigsaw puzzle
• Rubik's Shells
• Rubik's Tangle (a series of jigsaw-type puzzles, with square pieces; the aim is to create a tangle of ropes that join end to end)
• Rubik's UFO
• Zigzaw (a jigsaw puzzle)

Multi-player games

• Rubik's Brain Game
• Two-player game;
• One player acts as the "Codemaster", creating a hidden pattern; the other player has to guess this in as few turns as possible;
• Similar prinicple to Mastermind.
• Rubik's Challenge aka Rubik's Game
• Cube-shaped game
• Two to six players
• Rubi's Checker's Challenge
• Two-player abstract strategy board game;
• Game of checkers with a twist.
• Each piece begins with the full power of a King, moving diagonally forwards and backwards and jumping captures as in regular checkers.
• Upon a first capture a piece is flipped over to the pawn-side with its movement then reduced to a backwards direction only. A second capture of the same piece removes it from the game.
• Rubik's Eclipse
• Two-player abstract strategy board game;
• Possibly a re-presentation of the Magic Strategy Game with different designs for the playing pieces;
• Tagline - "Easy to learn, a challenge to win."
• Rubik's Illusion
• Two-player abstract strategy board game;
• the board is constructed as eight playing spaces wide, by four real playing spaces deep, with a mirror at the far edge of the board making the total depth of play eight spaces.
• Rubik's Infinity
• Two-player abstract strategy board game;
• each player has marbles of a certain colour;
• the aim is to make as many rows of four marbles as possible whilst preventing your opponent from doing the same;
• Tagline - "Move one ball to change it all. The more you score four, the faster you win. Easy to learn, a challenge to master."
• Rubik's Line Up
• Rubik's Magic Strategy Game
• Two-player abstract strategy board game
• Rubik's Race
• two player game
• each player has a five by five sliding puzzle
• the object is to make the central three by three square into a certain pattern.