Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe is at heart a game of fractal structure, per math teacher Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings. Players must balance two levels, an element that requires them to ...

The new Cubes come with four pre-loaded, ranging from a Zelda-inspired adventure game to a simple math game. “We always try to make it distinct from learning,” explains Merrill.

Only small tidbits of math remain unresolved for Rubik’s Cube. While God’s number is 20, it’s unknown exactly how many of the 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 combinations require a whole 20 moves ...

The simplicity of the Rubik’s Cube puzzle is what makes it so devilishly difficult to solve at times. It’s just a bunch of colored squares, but getting them to group together can be a life’s ...

In 2010, an international team of researchers proved that no matter how scrambled a Rubik’s cube got, it would require no more than 20 moves to solve it. Their proof, however, relied on the ...

Since most of my game-playing time these days is devoted to keeping Super Mario from getting squashed by giant bugs, I hadn't much thought about the Rubik's Cube in quite a while.

After they complete an assignment, students can select from a wide-range of cubes in Eleuterio’s classroom to practice with. The standard 3×3 cube has nine pieces on each of its six sides.