RUBIK

 Hello everybody!

We are back and this time, with a totally different post from the previous ones, and the time has come to talk about different geometric games with which you can develop your mind to the maximum and that will put your skills and abilities to develop. 

But well, let's go step by step. In this first entry, we are going to start talking about Rubik's Cubes, which is a three-dimensional mechanical puzzle, created by the Hungarian Ernő Rubik in 1974, and hence the name of this famous puzzle, which you can see in the following photo: 

And although the cube was originally a 3x3 cube, today there are a multitude of cubes of different dimensions and even with different shapes. Although the objective of all of them is the same, to achieve through a series of algorithms that all the faces are of the same colour, with all the blocks or pieces of the same colour located in the same place. Therefore, and returning to the traditional cube, it always has 6 uniform colours, which are usually white, yellow, red, blue, orange and green. 

So following the traditional cube invented by Ernő Rubik, it is made up of 27 pieces or cubes. The 6 central pieces of each face are fixed and anchored to a fixed axis. While the rest of the pieces are made in such a way that they can be rotated and moved from one face to another so that the cube can be solved. So in total, there would be 6 axis pieces, as I have already mentioned, 12 edges (two coloured faces) and 8 vertices (three coloured faces). 

Now let's talk about how to solve it. Perhaps the first time someone sees a Rubik's cube they see something that they will not be able to solve and that will take years to understand. However, if someone spends some time looking at the cube and the possibilities it offers, they realise that just looking at it and having an open mind and eyes to such an obstacle can be enough to be able to solve it.

In any case, I leave you a video below so that those of you who want to try it can follow one of the most basic algorithms: 

I hope you will all be encouraged to try to solve it and to continue advancing in more complicated cubes that I'm sure you will enjoy doing. 

See you soon with more games!