Puzzle, Rubik's Cube for the Blind
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
label: date made
content: ca 1981
name: label: maker
content: Ideal Toy Corporation
label: maker
content: IDEAL TOY CORP.
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle is an example of a Rubik’s Cube made with raised symbols as well as colors so the puzzle can be solved by people who are blind or visually impaired.
label: Description
content: In its solved position each face of the cube (a 3 X 3 square) shows the faces (1 X 1 squares) of nine small cubes, all of the same color and raised shape. The visible squares are red with squares, white with circles, orange with triangles, green with disks, and blue with line segments. The sealed hard plastic packaging hides the sixth face but a photograph of another example of the same puzzle shows the above faces as well as a yellow face with plus signs.
label: Description
content: A solution for the Rubik’s Cube might not work for the Rubik’s Cube for the Blind since the raised symbol on the center piece of the blue and orange sides might be incorrectly oriented, making additional moves necessary to correctly orient those symbols.
label: Description
content: This puzzle was made in 1981 in Hungary and remains in its original packaging. This puzzle is among Rubik’s Cube related items from the Cube Museum, which operated in Grand Junction, Colorado, from 1988 to 1991. For more information about the Rubik’s Cube and other twisting puzzles that use the same or similar mechanisms see 1987.0805.01.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: TwistyPuzzles [Rubik’s Blind Man’s Cube] website.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hungary
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Twisting Puzzles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cecil Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0061.02
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0061.02
label: accession number
content: 2006.0061
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 8 cm x 8.5 cm; 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 11/32 in