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RUBIK'S CUBE IS 50 YEARS OLD

I don't think I have ever owned a Rubik's Cube.  I have also never solved the game.  However, I can order one from Amazon.com for $5.19. A larger one costs $20. Hate to stoop to this level, but there is a  Donald Trump Rubik's Cube .   From the  Japan Times  in 2017. The story of  Rubik's Cube : Invented in 1974 by Hungarian Professor Erno Rubik ( right ). Has 26 cubes with 6 colors--white, yellow, red, orange, green and blue--plus 519 quintillion permutations. Began to be sold in 1980, and at one stage in 1981, three of the 10 best-selling books was on how to solve this cube. The  New York Times  in 1982 reported that the craze had died. But Rubik's patent expired in 2000, and the craze returned in the early 2000s When it sold 350 million, it became the best-selling toy in the world , according to some sources. Now, 500 million sold. However,  this article  says that the cube ranks #14, with Barbie ( 3 billion sold ) at #1 and the Yo-Yo as #2. Incidentally, the  De