Rubik's World Puzzle
date: label: date made
content: 1982
label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: Ideal Toy Company
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle is a variant of the Rubik’s cube puzzle that was designed by rounding the moving pieces, called cubies, so together they form a sphere instead of a cube. It was made in 1982 in Hong Kong.
label: Description
content: In its solved position, the surface of Rubik’s World puzzle surface represents the surface of the earth with the continents painted in bright colors on a black background. The puzzle includes a stand that allows it to rotate and is attached at the north and south poles
label: Description
content: Each cubie of the Rubik’s Cube is analogous to a piece of the Rubik’s World puzzle. The nine pieces of the globe that correspond to nine cubies forming a face of the cube, are bordered by a circle so can rotate in the same way that a face of the cube can.
label: Description
content: The four edges of the rounded square pieces that include the north and the south poles correspond to lines of latitude. The edge of any other rounded piece that is parallel to lines of latitude also correspond to lines of latitude. However, the edges that are perpendicular to the lines of latitude do not represent lines of longitude since they do not go through the north and south poles. Those edges can be rotated to correspond to lines of latitude.
label: Description
content: A solution for the Rubik’s Cube might not work for the Rubik’s World puzzle. Parts of Asia and Africa are shown on center pieces of the puzzle and an otherwise correct solution might have them incorrectly oriented, making additional moves necessary.
label: Description
content: For more information about the Rubik’s Cube and other twisting puzzles that use the same or similar mechanisms see 1987.0805.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Hong Kong
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 Dr. Judy Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0091.03
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0091.03
label: accession number
content: 2012.0091
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 9 cm x 10.5 cm; 4 11/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 4 1/8 in