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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Kennedy

The mind behind the Rubik’s Cube celebrates a lasting puzzle

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If you've ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It's worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it.

“Problem solving is a very basic activity of the human mind and if a problem is complex you need to divide the problem into smaller elements,” says Ernő Rubik, who invented the cube in 1974.

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