Mind Gaming
Have you ever met the Rubik who invented the Cube?
Erno Rubik invented the Rubik’s Cube in Hungary, where another amazing mind game is taking place.
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Professo Erno Rubik, inventor of Rubik's Cube
Professor Rubik gives us his quick thoughts on mind games.
It was in Hungary that Professor Erno Rubik invented his wildly successful mind game, the Rubik’s Cube, in the 1970s as a way to help explain three-dimensional geometry to students.
There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways to scramble a Rubik’s Cube – that’s 43 quintillion mind game challenges – and people of all ages quickly became obsessed with the game.
Perpetually fascinated by mental challenges, Professor Rubik plans on attending the Red Bull Mind Gamers World Finals on March 25, which will be live on Red Bull TV.
As individuals we're unique, so we're different to each other. Because of that, we can achieve different kinds of results using that creativity
Watch the interview in the video at the top of this page to see him talk briefly about the art of mind games, then speak more in-depth in the player below.
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Professor Erno Rubik
The inventor of Rubik's Cube discusses mind games.
No one knows when the first mind game was played. Evidence of mind gaming is apparent, however, in the introduction of the strategy board game Go in China more than 2,500 years ago.
As interest in strategy games spread over the following centuries, chess appeared, with an early form played in India in the sixth century, perhaps earlier. One of India’s current chess stars, International Master and Woman Grandmaster Tania Sachdev, describes what drew her to the board game, which she’s been playing since age six.
“Chess is a very intriguing sport with a lot of unanswered questions. This aspect of the sport was a lot of fun for me,” says the 30-year-old, who will be a commentator for the live global broadcast of the Escape Room World Championship in Budapest. “The art of attack and defence excited me enough to adopt the game.”
The history of mind challenges
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Starting on Thursday, March 23, national champion teams of the planet’s very best Escape Room players will face an unprecedented challenge, in the Red Bull Mind Gamers World Final. With a never-before-seen type of Escape Room, it’s the next stage in a gaming heritage that follows the development of civilisation itself.
The latest chapter in mind gaming’s long history will be written live on Red Bull TV on Saturday, March 25 at 8pm CET – when the top two teams battle it out in the Red Bull Mind Gamers World Final.