For most people, there’s little appeal in mastering the Rubik’s Cube — especially two years into a pandemic, when crawling out of bed and going to work seems like enough of a challenge most days. Those who enjoy pain and suffering, however, may take interest in a new “impossible” variant of the Rubik’s Cube, which features color-changing squares that make it even harder to defeat.
MegaHouse, a subsidiary of the company that produces Rubik’s Cubes in Japan, is to blame for the even more challenging puzzle. According to Japanese publication SoraNews24, MegaHouse sought to make the Rubik’s Cube more difficult without fundamentally changing its design, leading it to swap out the toy’s static colored tiles for iridescent ones. Each tile shifts color depending on the angle the Rubik’s Cube is viewed from, making it all that more difficult to solve the puzzle.
