Puzzle, Rubik's Wahn
date: label: date made
content: ca 1983
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle is a version of a Rubik’s Cube with each face showing a 5 X 5 square instead of the usual 3 X 3 square. The German name Rubik’s Wahn is usually translated as Rubik’s Mania. This puzzle is very much more complicated to solve than the traditional 3 X 3 X 3 Rubik’s cube and the 4 X 4 X 4 Rubik’s Revenge Cube (2006.0061.06).
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content: While the traditional Rubik’s cubes has more than 43,000,000,000,000,000,000 (18 zeros) possible arrangements of the small cubes, 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, and this puzzle, Rubik’s Wahn, has more than 282,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (72 zeros) possible arrangements.
label: Description
content: This puzzle was invented by Udo Krell of Hamburg, Germany, (US Patent number 4,600,199) and was made in about 1983. 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.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: RubikZone [Number of Combinations] 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: 2006.0061.07
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0061.07
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: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in