I admit it: I still wanted to beat the Rubik's Cube. Educational benefits, my foot. My thinking was less that you could use the cube to teach math, and more "SURRENDER, CUBE!" ...

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 ...

Using the currently provided best algorithm for solving the cube, for example, would take the computer you're reading this on now about 35 years to perform. And that's just for a basic 3x3 Rubik's ...

The standard 3x3 cube has nine pieces on each of its six sides. A smaller 2x2 cube has four pieces per side. There are larger, 12-sided cubes and those with a hollowed out middle.

Math Uncovers Max Moves to Solve Big Rubik's Cubes The brain twister that is the Rubik's cube has not only befuddled many people that have tried to solve it, but it has also stumped mathematicians.

In a decision handed down on Wednesday, the court declared that the puzzle toy's unmistakable design, with its rainbow-coloured, twisty-turny cube, can’t be trademarked.

A "solved" Rubik's cube has only one color of squares on each of its six faces. Figuring this out took the equivalent of 35 years' worth of number crunching on a home desktop computer.