Read the story of a cube.

Ernő Rubik is the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube. (AP/Julio Cortez)
The first Rubik’s Cube was made of wood. (Handout)
People speed cube at a competition in Tokyo, Japan. (AP/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Ernő Rubik used the first cube as a teaching tool. Now Rubik’s Cubes are sold all over the world. (AP/Richard Drew)
Does your family play with Rubik’s Cubes? (Acdx/CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)

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Mr. R. taught students about shapes. He made a wooden cube. Each side had smaller cubes. He painted each side one color.

That cube became a toy. The first cube contest was in March about 7 years later.

Pray: Thank God for toys that challenge us to think.

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Mr. Ernő Rubik taught design to college students in Hungary. He made a cube in 1974. It had 27 wooden blocks. He wanted students to think about how shapes work together. He also wanted them to figure out a complex puzzle. A plastic “Magic Cube” went on display at a toy fair in 1979. The Guinness Book of World Records held the first speed cubing contest in March of 1981. Now there are many contests each year.

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.” (Colossians 3:23)