THERE’S never been another children’s toy quite like it. Simple in design and yet maddeningly tricky to solve, the novelty of the Rubik’s Cube just never seems to wear off.
For decades the fiendishly difficult puzzle has had fans in a twist, baffling and delighting generations in equal measure. It’s right up there with Lego, yo-yos and marbles in terms of popularity – but as the world gears up to mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic cube, there’s nobody more surprised at its success than its Hungarian inventor, Erno Rubik (79).
“Fifty years means you’ve arrived, that you’ve done something,” he says.
Erno is proud of the fact that his
