This document summarizes several Hungarian logical games and puzzles. It describes Ernő Rubik's famous Rubik's Cube puzzle as well as some of his other games. It also discusses the Babel-Tower puzzle created by István Dézsi, András Zagyvai's Smartegg and Ge-Apple puzzles, and the Gömböc, a spherical object with one stable point of balance, created by Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi.
2. Rubik-games
Ernő Rubik (1944-): Kossuth Prize laurate game designer and interior decor
designer
His best known games: - Rubik's cube
- Rubik’s globe
- Rubik-race
- Rubik snake
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3. Facts about the Rubik’s cube
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
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5. Babel-tower
The game was created by István Dézsi in 1978
It has won awards in Amszterdam, Nurenberg and Moscow
Its substance is: to get all grades of each individual colour in the right order
of gradation, in the right column.
6. András Zagyvai and his games
András Zagyvai (1960-2013): architect
His best known games are - Smartegg
- Ge-Apple
7. About the Smartegg
Its introduction was at the New York Toy Fair
It won the major award of the International Puzzle Party in Washingtonban in
2012
Its 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 .
8. Ge-Apple
It is András Zagyvai’s game
The idea of the game has its origin from the story of a greengrocer’s where a
nicely arranged pile of apples was ruined by two boys. They wanted to
rearrange it quickly so they bit a piece of each apples to fit in the pile
that balls 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.
9. Domokos-Várkonyi: creators of the
Gömböc
Gábor Domokos got his PhD degree in 1989. He is the head of a department of
Budapest University ofTechnology and Economics.
Péter Várkonyi won second price at International Physics Olympiad.
He graduated as an architect.
10. Gömböc
Gömböc is the first known stable homogenous object with one and one
unstable equilibrium point, thus two equilibria altogether on a horizontal
surface. It is proved that there is less than one other object with less than
two homogenous object with one homogenous object with one Bizonyítható,
hogy ennél kevesebb homogenous object with one homogenous object with
one rendelkező test nem létezhet.
11. Thanks for your attention!
Made by: Anna Palkó és Dominik Mencigár
