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The maker of the Rubik's Cube has introduced a reworked version of the classic puzzle, changing its internal mechanism for the first time in more than five decades. The visual appearance remains largely unchanged, but the update is described as altering how the cube feels to turn and handle.
Alan Dorfman has made a career out of shrinking well-known items, such as Super Soakers and Rubik's Cubes, into tiny but fully functional toy versions. His miniature creations have turned him into a prominent figure in the toy industry, according to the profile.
A mathematician analyzing a flattened variant of the Rubik's Cube—dubbed the 'Flat Cube,' made of rhombus-shaped pieces that twist in hexagonal clusters—has proven a lower bound for its version of God's Number. Using two geometric proof techniques, one adding a dimension and one removing one, the author demonstrates that at least 27 twists are required to solve the puzzle's most difficult scrambles, regardless of whether moves are counted in 60-degree increments or as single rotations of any angle.