Puzzle, Pocket Rubik's Cube
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 2 X 2 square instead of the usual 3 X 3 square. There are only about 3.5 million possible arrangements of the eight little cubes that comprise this puzzle as compared with the more than 43 quintillion (43 followed by 18 zeros) possible arrangements of the small cubes making up the traditional Rubik’s Cube.
label: Description
content: This puzzle was made in Taiwan 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 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: Taiwan: Tayvan', Ostrov
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: 2006.0061.05
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0061.05
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: 4 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm; 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in