This guy’s thinking outside the box. Florian Kastenmeier, of Germany, now holds the Guinness World Record for assembling the largest collection of rotating puzzles in the world — a whopping 1,519. The ...

A magic cube is a three-dimensional array of whole numbers, in which each row, column, and body diagonal (corner to corner, through the center) adds up to the same total. A perfect magic cube is one ...

Read: Rubik’s Cube in numbers His life-changing idea arrived when he was in his late 20s, a young professor still living at home with his parents. Starting off with just chunks of wood and rubber ...

To calculate the volume of a cube, the length, width and height dimensions are multiplied. Volume is measured in cubic units. These are unit cubes which may be mm³, cm³ and m³. There are multiple ways ...

Only the most hardcore puzzle-solvers ever go beyond the standard 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube, attempting much larger ones such as those pictured on the right. Now an algorithm has been developed that can ...