Short Story: Simple isn’t always so
Derrick picked up the Rubik cube from the table and in a few slick moves, had all six sides neatly colour coded.
“But it’s simple Jason! Your ten year old sister can do it with her eyes closed!”
“Here, let me show you just one more time!”
Derrick picked up the Rubik cube from the table and in a few slick moves, had all six sides neatly colour coded and in regimented rows of brightly coloured plastic blocks.
Jason blinked owlishly at his father saying, “And I need to do this why?”
“Because I say so and because the world can, so why can’t you?” Derrick angrily twisted the cube, rearranging the rows and smashing the cube down onto the table in front of his son, he growled, “Now, do it!”
Jason picked up the cube and threw it against the wall screaming, “I can’t dad, I’m colour blind!”
©Susan Farrell
Note: The Rubik Cube was invented in 1974, by a young Hungarian architect named Ernő Rubik who became obsessed with finding a way to illustrate three-dimensional movement to his students. After months of trying various ways with blocks of cubes — made from wood and paper, held by rubber bands, glue, and paper clips — he finally created something he called the “Bűvös kocka,” or Magic Cube.
Renamed the Rubik’s Cube, it become the most popular puzzle toy in the world. More than 400 million have been sold. This simple cube led to a competitive sport, called speed cubing to evolve, where teenagers race one another to complete the puzzle in the shortest space of time. The fastest time that a Rubik cube has been solved you may ask? Felix Zemdegs from Australia in 4,22 seconds.
References -The Smithsonian Institute and Wikipedia (edited)
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