Puzzle, Rubik's Zwillinge (Mate)
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Ideal Toy Corporation
label: maker
content: IDEAL TOY CORP.
notes: label: Description
content: Rubik’s Zwillinge (usually translated twins) is a double or "Siamese" combination of two Rubik's cubes. The two cubes overlap along one row of three small cubes. The large cubes are colored the same as a traditional Rubik's cube, yellow, orange, green, red, blue and white.
label: Description
content: The puzzle remains in its original packaging. The packaging includes mention of Arxon, the German branch of the Ideal Toy Corporation, and a copyright date of 1983 for Ideal. It also implies that the Hungarian inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, also invented this puzzle.
label: Description
content: From contemporary sources it appears as if Tony Fisher of Ipswich, England, invented what became known as Fisher’s Siamese Cubes in late 1981, before Ideal had produced Rubik’s Mate. Fisher has said that solving this puzzle is different, although not necessarily more difficult, than solving the standard Rubik’s Cube.
label: Description
content: 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: TonyFisherPuzzles [Siamese Rubik’s Cubes Puzzle] website.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 2006.0061.11
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0061.11
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: 14.5 cm x 10.1 cm x 10.1 cm; 5 23/32 in x 3 31/32 in x 3 31/32 in