Japanese competitors showed off their brainpower in bringing home titles in the recent World Puzzle Championship and World Sudoku Championship. At the World Puzzle Championship (WPC), in which ...

A Rubik’s Cube or “magic cube” can be configured over 43 quintillion ways, and every configuration can technically be solved in 20 moves or less. In practice, the most expert human cube solvers ...

Some of the fastest Rubik’s cube solvers in the world have gotten down to a five second solve — which is quite an incredible feat for a human — but how about one second? Well, [Jay Flatland] and [Paul ...

In another apparent step toward entering the Platonic Realm of Forms, humans have created a floating Rubik’s Cube that can (perhaps) solve itself. And while the levitating, self-solving combination ...

Math can be a nightmare for many. This paralysing fear of numbers often affect people’s ability to solve simple problems. Whereas, besides crossword puzzle games, almost every newspaper around the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Purdue’s aspiring engineers set a new Guinness World Record. Purdue’s aspiring engineers set a new Guinness World ...

Move over, human speedcubers. The Rubik’s Cube world has a new champion. Final-year University of Bristol Computer Science student Matt Pidden, seeking a dissertation project, discovered the robot ...