Classic Games for the Bored IT
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Last updated: Thursday, June 12, 2008

What better time to pass time than with an old fashioned game? In my mind, nothing beats Rubik’s Cube.

If you grew up when the Rubik’s cube made it’s debut - you probably remember that every kid had one. Whether it was the full size or the keychain version they were as common in school as cell phones and GBAs are these days. Elementary school kids could be seen solving them with their feet on ‘That’s Incredible!’ and conspiracists believed the puzzle was an Eastern block tactic to distract American youth from their educations. In 1980 Cubaholics Anonymous was formally established. The eighties simply enjoyed RubikMania! Here we are in the 21st century and it’s still just as addictive as it was thirty years ago.

I could spend hours playing with the cube. I even got a personal record of under 5 minutes (wanna challenge me?) ;-) There are 43 quintillion possible combinations with your Rubik’s cube. That’s 43 million million millions. There are about 30 million seconds in a year. You would need over a thousand million years assuming you could look at a thousand patterns every second just to see all the possible combinations.

Plenty of time if you have a server provider just like us.

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