Rubik’s 360 Puzzle Ball [Erno Rubik's Creative Madness Set to Unhinge The Mentally Unstable]

We all remember the Rubik’s Cube. Six sides of multi-colored mayhem that drove many a would-be puzzle solver to the brink of insanity. How could something so simple turn out to be so mentally taxing? As a child of the 80s I can still remember the craze as it hit the market. Nerds and geeks everywhere flooded the stores to become the first to solve the riddle. I was one of them. It took me only about a week before I was exploring ways of dismantling the device to return it to its original state of order. In an effort to entice a new generation, one lost in video games and technology, the torturers responsible for the Rubik’s Cube have come up with a new creation, the Rubik’s 360.

The Rubik’s 360 is one mean-looking puzzle sphere. It actually contains three concentric spheres of varying diameter two of which have small holes cut into them. Inside the clear container, there are six small colored balls. The goal of the puzzle is to navigate the balls through the small openings in the inner spheres and place them into their corresponding color-coded compartments on the outer sphere. It’s just that simple. The challenge; prevent the already-placed balls from breaking loose while you work on the others.

While the original Rubik’s Cube (still the world’s fastest-selling toy) was genius you could still “solve” it by taking it apart or removing the stickers. The Rubik’s 360 has no stickers and from what I can see, no easy way to take it apart. So if you have tons of time on your hands and love driving yourself mad, you definitely need to get your hands on one. They are slated to hit the market sometime later this summer and will retail for $14.99.