Puzzles in public

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

There is a Rubik's Cube in a Canadian Forces commercial. You can see the whole commercial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zthYrltHrc

Skarabajo.

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:57 am

At 2:50 of Phil Collins' excellent song "Land of Confusion",
Mr Spock seems frustrated with a Rubik's cube and he tries
to open it with a screwdriver or bang it!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_Wq ... re=related

Pantazis

juanan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:31 pm

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

That was on IAB a while back, I guess it's a little out of date now! :lol:

Alex

X-TownCuber · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:37 pm

this isn't really in public, but I just saw an ebay listing for a pyraminx that said "best gift for someone who wants to improve IQ." v-cube 7 anyone?

cjgerik · **Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:28 pm

I don't have any pictures, but a few days ago there was a story in the USA Today paper that was about the 1980s, and the central picture for the article? None other than our beloved Rubik's Cube.

Chris

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

We've all seen these, but there's a list on Oddee about 3x3x3 inspired objects: http://www.oddee.com/item_97599.aspx.

Alex

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:06 am

Anyone here catch the Season finale of "V" this week? If so did you spot the BrainTwist puzzle that was on the V's mother ship? I which I had a picture to show but I can't seem to find one on line. If someone has one could you post it?

Carl

quicksolver · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:38 pm

The T.V. show Outsourced (NBC) showed one of the characters playing with a 3x3 last night, but it looked suspicously like a wooden 30th anniversary cube...

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:32 pm

Found the video on line... here are a few pictures:

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BrainTwist... the toy preferred by kids who want to twist their father's brain with their lizard tails. Ok!?

Carl

juanan · **Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:50 am

the new nissan cube

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

There is an animated RBC ad on YouTube featuring a Rubik's cube that magically turns into a "house" 3x3x4 cube. Attached are 4 frames of the animation.

EDIT: I clicked on the link and there is a better/bigger image on their website.

Skarabajo

DLitwin · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:54 pm

From Senor Gif, an Alexander's Star animation.
The comments are sadly incorrect, but someone gets it right eventually.

Dave

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

I never thought I would ever watch or listen to Justin Bieber but-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsujXyb ... grec_index

GuiltyBystander · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:20 pm

Tony Fisher wrote:

I never thought I would ever watch or listen to Justin Bieber but-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsujXyb ... grec_index

Woah! He just went up in my book.

Luke · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 12:21 pm

A minutes ago on ITV Meridian News, Daniel Sheppard (a cuber I met at the UK Open last year) was on solving and showing the country the fun of Rubik's Cubes!

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2011 6:58 am

DeStorm with a LOT of rubiks cube t-shirts

Simplexity4 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:46 pm

Because I follow the competitive Starcraft 2 scene about as avidly I do the Twistypuzzle one, this video of perhaps the two best nonkorean professionals battling it out in games other than Starcraft made me laugh. Layers and layers of nerd humor going on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfyW6EP ... r_embedded

Zeotor · **Joined:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:37 pm

Google's Hungarian homepage on June 15, 2011.

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:30 pm

Just got back from watching Green Lantern. I spotted a Rubiks Cube and a Megaminx in the movie.

Carl

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

There is a Sudokube in the movie Knowing from 2009 (click on the images for bigger size).

Skarabajo.

will_57 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:55 pm

The image text of the most recent xkcd comic has a reference to an unsolved 5x5.

pirsquared · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:07 pm

I prefer this one. :lol:

-Eitan

pirsquared · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:53 pm

I just saw the movie Super 8, and though it was set in the 1970s, the kids knew what a Rubik's Cube was (One of the kids mentions that something looks like some messed up rubik's cube). The rubik's cube didn't become widely available until 1980. Said Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams, "Oops."

-Eitan

PuzzleMaster6262 · **Joined:** Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:00 am **Location:** Colorado

pirsquared wrote:

I just saw the movie Super 8, and though it was set in the 1970s, the kids knew what a Rubik's Cube was (One of the kids mentions that something looks like some messed up rubik's cube). The rubik's cube didn't become widely available until 1980. Said Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams, "Oops."

-Eitan

I noticed the same thing. However the film was set in the early summer of 1979 so the kids "could" have known.

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

Hello,

I was checking out eBay for puzzles when I saw an auction with a manga toy that looked like a Rubik's Cube. After a little bit of searching, I found the following video featuring "Cubeman" (a character in the Kinnikuman manga, no relation with Mark Longridge). I am not a fan of manga or fighting video games, but I thought this video was interesting, particularly the ending, which features another Rubik's puzzle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POt_yZc7Io

Enjoy,

Skarabajo.

Georges · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:08 am

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katsmom · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:34 pm

Thanks to quicksolver, I had to go do a search. Check out what Boy George talks about at :36

thomasbomb · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:10 am

Minecraft "Rubik's Cube"
It uses redstone and pistons (for all of you who know wtf that is

)
There is also another one here, but it is not as fast or efficient.
Now we need a non-cubic puzzle :mrgreen:

GoombaGeek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:54 pm

thomasbomb wrote:

Minecraft "Rubik's Cube"
It uses redstone and pistons (for all of you who know wtf that is

)
There is also another one here, but it is not as fast or efficient.
Now we need a non-cubic puzzle :mrgreen:

I am amazed at how it turns so well! I actually made a Rubik's Cube-shaped house (with a list of the twisty puzzles I own inside) in my map GoombaVille (a town I have made in Minecraft, available for free download (although the newest version available online may not have the cube house) but I never dreamed that someone could make a functionally-turning one.

thomasbomb wrote:

Now we need a non-cubic puzzle

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juanan · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:41 am

Felipe Massa (ferrari f1 driver) showing a not openened rubik´s cube in Hungarian grand prix

Probably never open it :lol:

mitchblahman · **Posted:** Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:02 pm

I was just watching Tim Burton's Batman and noticed in one of the scenes that there is not only a Rubik's cube, but a 3x3 cuboctahedron
which leads me to believe someone on the team for that movie must have been a cuber
just an interesting fact, I can't find a picture of it because I'm not sure how to play the movie on my computer but if anyone else could that would be awesome (the movie came out in 1989 so whoever put it there must have really been a fanatic)

Jhahoua · **Joined:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:58 pm **Location:** Earth,

My sister and her friend wer watching Flushed Away right after rodie, he smashed the ruby Rita, through a Rubik's Cube at him.

And on the american tv show mythbusters they have Rubik's cubes sevrel times.

mArtorell · **Posted:** Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:49 pm

Lipdub of Valldemossa village. Mallorca island - Catalan Countries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyWe0HTVN0A

:solved:

1:42 - 1:50 :solved:

Maybe you wanna watch more of lipdubs of "Mallorca m'agrada" (I like Mallorca) campaign. The idea of this campaign is do lipdubs from all the villages and cities of Mallorca Island!

This is from Manacor, the city of Rafel Nadal (I think you know him, really? :mrgreen:

)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkN4Ss-6S_I

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Dr Who - Night Terrors.
He fiddled about for a while and then threw it away saying it must be broken.

Doctor who · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:26 pm

Hah! I love it! My worlds are colliding!

X-TownCuber · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:37 pm

found this on yahoo today:
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in ... 39219.html

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Non functional Rubik's Cube on UK Big Brother.

Caphits · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:17 pm

On ESPN during the North Carolina VS Clemson. During a review of a touchdown, the announcers reference a Rubik's cube, talking about the confusion of the touchdown. :lol:

DLitwin · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:31 am

Another cube mosiac makes VeryDemotivational here. I find myself more on the art side than the frustration side.
Video of it being created.

Dave

Benzini · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:22 pm

For all you Portal fanatics out there (like me), check out this YouTube Video! There are several points where Rubik's Cubes are just laying around half solved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9mDxz9BXDk

darryl · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:28 pm

This month's Discover Magazine has a Rubik's cube on the cover. I guess it relates to Dark Matter. The website only has a small thumbnail of it, but it's here:
http://discovermagazine.com/

Edit: It was pointed out to me that there is a better image here:
http://www.premiomag.com/uploads/produc ... _140_2.png

-d

chris · **Joined:** Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:03 pm

December 2011 cover story interview with Danyang Chen. Also with some TwistyPuzzles familiar faces.
villaslife.cn
The translation isn't very good, though.

Klara · **Joined:** Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:07 pm

These posters seem to appear everywhere on the subway these days, so I had to snap a shot with my cell phone camera:

The poster says: Looking for a last minute Christmas present?
For the handy one: A multi-tool
For the hair fixated one: A hair straightener
For the smart one: A Rubik's cube
:-)

Also, I happened to notice that a Rubik's cube is briefly visible at about 05:58 in episode 7 of the second season of the TV series In Treatment from 2009:

Swami · **Joined:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:16 pm

Tony Fisher wrote:

In the new film 'Let Me In', Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is playing with a Rubik's Cube outside in the snow when young vampire girl Abby (Chloe Moretz from the brilliant Kick-Ass movie) joins him.

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but the original Swedish version of this movie, Let The Right One In also contains scenes with a Rubik's Cube.

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Georges · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:14 am

In Luxembourg there exists a series of books describing the different decades: The Fifties, The Sixties, ...

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Last week they published The Eighties. I bought the book to have the complete series and to show it to my children who are 80's kids.
While flipping through the book this afternoon I found a tribute to Rubik's Cube with a picture of myself.
It's a good thing that I am suffering from collector's syndrome!

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Robert111 · **Joined:** Sun May 30, 2010 5:29 pm **Location:** England

The latest Centrum Vitamins advert in the UK features a Rubik's Cube as the basis of the advert.
I couldn't find any footage of it though.

Robert

katsmom · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:01 pm

and all I was going to post was a add I saw in the subway....
Nice one Georges.

Kapusta · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:38 pm

A regrettably bad recent episode of Spongebob, "The Krabby Patty that ate Bikini Bottom," features an all knowing 4x4 at 9:15 of this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKBxPARpsQ

Coaster1235 · **Joined:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:25 pm **Location:** Finland

In the center of Helsinki we have this:

The cube is animated, and if I remember correctly, it's based on a solve by a Finnish speedsolver. Can't remember the time though.
Sorry, couldn't find a better picture.

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