Back in the mid-1970s, Ernő Rubik could not have guessed that his cube puzzle toy would one day become a world sensation.
Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube in 1974, and it was patented in 1975. When he designed this colorful, twisty-turny robust device, little did he know how popular it would become in the future? Some reports suggest, that Ernő did not even realize his cube could also serve as a puzzle until he scrambled it and then attempted to restore it. Let us now look at some of the most difficult variants of the Rubik's cube.
The Pentamix Puzzle
This puzzle is one of the toughest Rubik's cubes of all time. For many people, the conventional cube already seems impossible to solve, but this take on the classic cube can terrify even the most skilled Rubik's Cube enthusiast. It constitutes 975 parts and over 1,200 stickers. Its designer, Jason Smith took nearly 75 hours to create the Pentamix puzzle. But when it comes to solving it — beginners might require a considerably longer time than it took to create it.
The Gearball Brainteaser
This puzzle is hands down one of the most complex and intriguing variants of the Rubik's Cube. If you consider the classic cube difficult-to-solve, you got to try this marvelous and beastly puzzle. While solving it, you can watch the gears turn - it is both challenging and satisfying.
The Pitcher Insanity Cube
This awesome puzzle is aggressively challenging. Every twist and turn leads to a jumbling and shape-shifting move that makes it difficult to determine what you are looking at after it has been scrambled. Some pieces of the puzzle get hard to fully scramble owing to jumbling. After you scramble the puzzle, you need to get it back to its original cubic shape and rearrange the pieces individually to solve the color of each face.
The Mastermorphix Puzzle
The Mastermorphix is a very puzzling and twisty cube. This variant is a shape modification of a 3x3 standard Rubik’s Cube but a lot more challenging. The center of the puzzle is required to be oriented correctly, and you may easily place the edge pieces in the wrong spot and think you have solved it. The difficulty level augments considerably as you go for higher-ordered Mastermorphix puzzles like the 6x6.
The Roulette Wheel Rubik Cube
If you wish to train your right and left brain simultaneously, get your hands on this Roulette Wheel Rubik cube. There are six color surfaces and six roulette wheels with numbers labeled on them. For solving this, you first need to match all the roulette colors and then sequence the numbers and finally match each surface color.
If you want to try a nerd test on someone, simply hand them one of these Rubik’s cubes and see how they perform.
