2. Rubik games
Ernő Rubik (1944-): Kossuth Prize laurate game
designer, interior decor designer
His best known games: - Rubik's Cube
- Rubik’s Globe
- Rubik Race
- Rubik’s Snake
Here you can see record holders of different sized
Rubik’s Cubes solving the puzzle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-rd9ZR-TA
4. Facts about the Rubik’s Cube
It was invented in 1974
Approximately a million has been sold in Hungary
Description: The six sides of the cube have different
coloures and the small squares of the sides can be
rotated.
The colours of the small squares can be scrambled on the
sides .
The objective is to rotate the sides of the cube to get all
the same colored squares on the same side.
In England it won the ‚Toy of the Year’ award in 1980 and
has won many other awards along the years
5. Babel Tower
The game was created by István Dézsi in 1978
It has won awards in Amsterdam, Nurenberg and Moscow
Its substance is to get all grades of each individual colour
in the right order of gradation, in columns.
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8. András Zagyvai and his games
András Zagyvai (1960-2013) was an architect
His best known games are – Smart Egg
- Geapple
9. About the Smart Egg
It was first introduced at the New York Toy Fair
It won the major award of the International
Puzzle Party in Washington in 2012
The substance of the game is to
insert a stick with round ends
into the top of the puzzle and
then to try to get it out at the
bottom by manipulating it.
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11. Geapple
It is András Zagyvai’s game
The idea of the game has its origin from the story having
happened in a greengrocer’s where a nicely arranged pile
of apples was ruined by two boys.
The balls of the Geapple have dimples to fit their
neighbours and so it is a serious challenge
to reassemble the pyramid.
There is only one solution
It won the Jury 1st prize in the 2013
Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition
All the apples have different shapes.
12. Domokos-Várkonyi: creators of the
Gömböc
Gábor Domokos got his PhD degree in 1989. He is
head of a department at Budapest University of
Technology and Economics.
Péter Várkonyi won second
price at International Physics
Olympiad.
He graduated as an architect.
13. Gömböc
Gömböc is the first known stable
homogenous object with one stable and one
unstable equilibrium points. It proved that there
is no object with less equilibrium points than this.
14. Thank you for your attention!
By: Anna Palkó and Dominik Mencigár
