Puzzle, Instant Insanity
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
label: date made
content: ca 1970
label: date made
content: ca 1968
name: label: maker
content: Parker Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle consists of four plastic cubes with differently colored faces. The goal is to arrange the cubes so that the four square faces in each long row of are of four different colors.
label: Description
content: The general form of this puzzle dates to the early twentieth century. California computer programmer Franz O. Armbruster (1929-2013) developed this version. Parker Brothers offered it from the mid-1960s as Instant Insanity, Millions of copies sold.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: {Advertisement}, <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, Los Angeles, Calif. Feb 1, 1968: 15. The toy cost 87 cents.
label: Description
content: Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Tom Rodgers, <I>A Lifetime of Puzzles</I>, CRC Press, 2008, pp. 157-175.
label: Description
content: Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans, <I> Puzzles Old and New: How to Make and Solve Them</I>, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986, p. 38.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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: 2012.0091.02
label: accession number
content: 2012.0091
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0091.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puzzle
label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.3 cm x 13.3 cm x 3.3 cm; 1 5/16 in x 5 1/4 in x 1 5/16 in