Puzzle, Rubik's Revenge
date: label: Date made
content: 1982
label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: IDEAL TOY CORP.
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle is a version of a Rubik’s Cube with each face showing a 4 X 4 square instead of the usual 3 X 3 square. This puzzle is much more complicated to solve that the traditional Rubik’s cube since there are significantly more possible arrangement introduced with the addition of more little cubes. The traditional Rubik’s cube has more than 43,000,000,000,000,000,000 (18 zeros) possible arrangements of the small cubes but Rubik’s Revenge has more than 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (45 zeros) possible arrangements.
label: Description
content: This puzzle was made in Korea and distributed by the Ideal Toy Corporation. 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 3 X 3 X 3 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: RubikZone [Number of Combinations] website.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: South 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: 2006.0061.06
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0061.06
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: 6.5 cm x 6.5 cm x 6.5 cm; 2 9/16 in x 2 9/16 in x 2 9/16 in