Puzzles provide many hours of applied fun beyond any perfunctory tasks that occupy our days. When your son or daughter receives a snake cube puzzle as a Christmas gift — and it turns out to be ...

This estimates the number of moves a scramble is from being solved. A batched weighted A Star search is then done to solve the puzzle. Implementations to solve the 2x2 Cube, 15-Puzzle and 24-Puzzle ...

This program solves the 5x5x5 brick-cube-puzzle in less than one second using a sophisticated algorithmic approach. The implementation is both highly efficient as well as easy to understand. The ...

With a special 50th anniversary retro cube on the list of this year's top toys, the puzzle's popularity is still going strong. Suitable for children (and adults) aged eight and over, the Rubik's ...

The cube, of course, is the compact Rubik’s Cube, the bestselling 3D combination puzzle (a tasteful amount of memorabilia is strewn about the house) originally known as the Magic Cube, that Rubik ...

A robot developed by five young engineers at Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was recognized by Guinness World Records as the fastest to solve a 3x3x3 puzzle cube--almost as quickly as the blink of an eye.