We all remember the Rubik's Cube, but there were several other similar toys that kind of jumped on the bandwagon.

I remember there was a Pyramid, a "Whip It" (the whip it if I remember right was sort of more like those little cheap puzzles with 8 tiles and 9 spaces where you move the tiles around to make a picture or put numbers in order, etc... but it was cylinder shaped...

I think there was a round version also, and a long strip that you could twist different ways to make different things, wow, I haven't thought about that in years, I think I used to know how to make a dog, a UFO... I can't remember what else... :-\\

Three I best remember:

The Missing Link
http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/images/misslink.jpg

Rubik's Magic
http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/images/magic/magic.jpg

Rubik's Snake
http://www2.vo.lu/homepages/phahn/puzzles/snake2.jpg


I had a Rubik's Snake.  fun stuff it was.  I never did solve it though

I remember a thread like this not long ago.

I had the Rubik's Magic and Snake. I remember turning the Rubik's Magic into a box which I used as a GI Joe prison cell.  :D

I still have my original cube... never could figure the damn thing out!  >:(

I had a missing link.  My sister had a really weird Rubix Cube spin off that had domino prints.

Three I best remember:

The Missing Link
http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/images/misslink.jpg

Rubik's Magic
http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/images/magic/magic.jpg

Rubik's Snake
http://www2.vo.lu/homepages/phahn/puzzles/snake2.jpg


I had a Rubik's Snake.  fun stuff it was.  I never did solve it though


I didn't know there was anything to solve on the snake... I thought you just made things out of it...

I didn't know there was anything to solve on the snake... I thought you just made things out of it...


Not really solving it per se, but being able to form it into a ball or some sort of cool shape

All I had was a regular Rubik's Cube that I could never finish! ;D

All I had was a regulat Rubik's Cube that I can never finish! ;D


I used to be able to solve the Rubik's Cube really fast.  Of course sometimes those little coloured stickers weren't always easy to peel off ;D

I used to be able to solve the Rubik's Cube really fast.  Of course sometimes those little coloured stickers weren't always easy to peel off ;D


lol I had two cubes the one I actually tried to solve- never did came close once tho... and the one I broke apart and reassembled. I did that alot... it became very lose and rickety.  ;D

Another form of the Rubik's Cube was the Rubik's Clock

http://www.puzzle-shop.de/rubiks-clock.gif

It was complicated to do, pressing down the combination determinds which direction the arrow or indicator goes, and all the indicators had to be at twelve o'clock. All that may be fine, but the same is done on the other side. 

Another form of the Rubik's Cube was the Rubik's Clock

http://www.puzzle-shop.de/rubiks-clock.gif

It was complicated to do, pressing down the combination determinds which direction the arrow or indicator goes, and all the indicators had to be at twelve o'clock. All that may be fine, but the same is done on the other side. 


Never seen that before.

Never seen that before.
It was available in the UK, and drove us insane.

It was available in the UK, and drove us insane.


It's very futuristic looking!  WOW!

It's very futuristic looking!  WOW!
It must had been around twenty years ago when it came out.

I could never figure out the Rubik Cube myself, didnt it make a comeback recently? 

I could never figure out the Rubik Cube myself, didnt it make a comeback recently? 
I am not sure, but if not it should because these cubes do provide go exercise for the fingers.

I could never figure out the Rubik Cube myself, didnt it make a comeback recently? 


Yes, it's in all the toy shop at the moment.  My daughter just had one from a friend for her birthday.

I only once solved the Rubik's Cube - when I was drunk and I had a friend showing me.

I had a Snake.  I was given it when I was in hospital having my appendix removed. I also had Rubik's Magic but had totally forgotten about it until I saw the pictures posted here.

Yes, it's in all the toy shop at the moment.  My daughter just had one from a friend for her birthday.

I only once solved the Rubik's Cube - when I was drunk and I had a friend showing me.

I had a Snake.  I was given it when I was in hospital having my appendix removed. I also had Rubik's Magic but had totally forgotten about it until I saw the pictures posted here.
We had Magic too, but fell apart, it was not strongly made for our fingers.

We had Magic too, but fell apart, it was not strongly made for our fingers.


Don't remember what happened to mine, probably went to a jumble sale or something.

Someone managed to break my snake (can't now remember if it was me or one of my brothers)

Don't remember what happened to mine, probably went to a jumble sale or something.

We still have a "Cube" left over for the 80's sitting on the window sill and the "Clock" is in a cupboard.

I had a Rubik's Cube, a Pyraminx (the pyramid) and currently have The Missing Link on my desk at home, solved. 8)

I still have a Rubik's Cube.

I used to like the more challenging Rubik's Cubes that instead of colors, had ones like card suits (♥♦♣♠) or numbers.  They even had ones that lit up and looked like the floor of a 70s disco.  Those were cool!

I used to like the more challenging Rubik's Cubes that instead of colors, had ones like card suits (♥♦♣♠) or numbers.  They even had ones that lit up and looked like the floor of a 70s disco.  Those were cool!


You can get the light up ones again.  At least ones with the centre one lit up.

I had a Rubik's Cube, which I never did figure out how to solve. (There was this one dopey kid in my 6th grade class who always boasted how he could "solve" it, which in reality consisted of him scrambling it and then unscrambling it in the exact same order. Finally another kid snatched it away from him and messed it all up and gave it back to him, and he started bawling.  ;D)

I also had a cheap knock-off Rubik's Cube, but instead of having colors it had like the ace of spades on one side, and the king of diamonds on another, etc. It was a piece of sh*t.


I had a Pyraminx, which was actually quite easy to solve.

http://www.rubikspuzzles.com/images/pyraminx.jpg

I also had an Orb, which was a cool puzzle and a bit more difficult to solve than the Pyraminx, but nowhere near as hard as the Rubik's Cube.

http://www.rubikspuzzles.com/images/Orbit.jpg



So....how many people here who had a Rubik's Cube wound up saying "f*ck it" and just breaking it apart and putting it back together?  ;D ;D ;D

I used to like the more challenging Rubik's Cubes that instead of colors, had ones like card suits (♥♦♣♠) or numbers.  They even had ones that lit up and looked like the floor of a 70s disco.  Those were cool!


I had a Rubik's Cube with Pac Man and the ghosts on each side.  I got it at the Pac Man tent at the 1982 World's Fair. 

There was also a Rubik's Cube with Chex Mix pieces on the sides.  It was a Chex cereal giveaway.

This was the Whip-It...

This was the Whip-It...

We had one of those too (with more squares in smaller size).

http://www.speedcubing.com/ton/collection/Trade/images/Trade%20Whip%20it%20six.jpg

There is now a electric Rubik's Cube, which look awesome.

I had a missing link.  My sister had a really weird Rubix Cube spin off that had domino prints.


I got it...

I got it...

I got it...

I don't got it.

(Who gets it?  The monkey gets it!)
:-\\

I owned a Rubik's Cube but I never solved it.  I never really tried either.  I was more the Marvin the Paranoid Android type:  "Why bother?  Who cares?"
:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3iBRhhK5sE


This gave me an inferiority complex. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3iBRhhK5sE


This gave me an inferiority complex. :P
Recorded in reverse?

Twice this weekend I have completed the cube.  Elizabeths birthday present cube came with details of a website with instructions for completing the cube and I managed to follow them

Recorded in reverse?


yeah it does look a bit off doesn't it?  I think in reverse and shown at a faster speed.

yeah it does look a bit off doesn't it?  I think in reverse and shown at a faster speed.
...and the speaking added on.