Perpetual Calendar Puzzle
date: label: Date made
content: 1982
label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: Ideal Toy Corporation
label: maker
content: IDEAL TOY CORP.
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle is a perpetual calendar that is based on a Rubik’s Cube, but only one face of the cube is solved each day. The puzzle is stored in its original packaging, a cardboard box, and is wrapped in plastic so the original date, Saturday January first, is maintained.
label: Description
content: On the face of the cube that represents the day, the top row displays the day of the week ((Satur)(day)( )), the middle row displays the month ((J)(A)(N)), and the bottom row displays the day of the month (( )( )(1)). The box also contains a black plastic stand for display and instructions.
label: Description
content: This puzzle was made in Korea and packed in the United States in about 1982. It 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: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Korea
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: 2006.0061.04
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0061.04
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: 15 cm x 11.5 cm x 8 cm; 5 29/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 3 5/32 in