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World Service,15 Jan 2022,26 mins

The twists and turns of the Rubik's Cube

Outlook

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Outlook's Saskia Edwards goes in search of the elusive creator of what must be one of the most maddening games - the Rubik's Cube. On route she meets one of the fastest cubers in the world, Feliks Zemdegs. He can solve the puzzle in a matter of seconds, but even he can't tell Saskia where she can find its inventor - Erno Rubik. First broadcast in 2020. Erno Rubik has a book out called Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All’. Picture: Rubik cube's inventor Professor Erno Rubik, 1981 Credit: Getty Images­_Mirrorpix / Contributor

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