Software Board-Games - MagicCube

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"There was this guy, Erno Rubik (he's got some dot things on his name), and he was an engineering professor over in Hungary (which explains the dots).
Well, 'ol Erno, Commie government or not, decided to introduce his classes to three dimensional thought in an entertaining way, so he invented this happening cube. What it is, is a cube, on which each face can be rotated around a central ""jack"" (remember those? with the rubber ball.
onesies, twosies..).
To move that way, each face is made up of nine squares (3x3), each one the same color as the rest of the squares on that face (the center pieces determine the color of the face, because they don't ever move (except in circles around themselves, but that's for those chapter six guys).
I think the first one only had two colors or something. As I hope you can imagine, this turned out to be a pretty fun experiment and pretty soon some big rich American types came along, pushed him down, and took it and sold it to just about every little kid's parents that came along.
A bunch of them played with it and threw it out.
Many played with it, then took it apart, THEN threw it out.
Lots of people did the cool rearranging of the stickers thing.
People did it in malls.
People did it in schools.
Probably been a sticker or two lost under a church pew.
There were contests to solve it fastest and there were contests to solve it quickest.
It's a toy.
It's maddeningly fun (especially if you don't learn a system of solving it before trying, but do it anyway :) ).
You have it.
Either the three dimensional physical one or this mind twisting software -- most preferably both, dontcha know."