Product Description

Here at Gadgetshop HQ, we don't intentionally set out to cause you mental fatigue, emotional distress and marital breakdown. It's just that some of our fiendish contraptions are so dashed compulsively addictive that you just can't put them down for fear of getting one step closer to a solution. So it is with the Sudoku 3D Puzzle Cube, a whole world of wonder in a black box. Combining all the infuriation of Mr Rubik's famous innovation with the latest global craze Sudoku, it goes several steps further than both ever could on their own. And it will take you into the depths of fascination, and yes, despair. Now it really is quite simple. Just align the six identical sides with the numbers 1 to 9. Each side rotates as the original cube did, interlocking cubelets enabling the user to manipulate the device in the vertical and horizontal axes. Yet, with a crushing inevitability, solving one side will only complicate the solution to the remaining incomplete sides. Does it feel like you've been here before? Yes. Perhaps 25 years ago. Except you had more patience then. And you were probably faster at arithmetic, too. Never has the phrase 'one step forward, two steps back' been more apt. Remember. All you need to do is align the six identical sides with the numbers 1 to 9. Now, that can't possibly be too much to ask... can it?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #546 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Funtime
• Dimensions: 2.36" h x 2.36" w x 2.36" l, .22 pounds

Features

• Suitable for ages over 5.
• Combines Sudoku with a Rubiks cube
• Only you don't get all the colours on one side
• You get the numbers 1-9 on all six faces.
• Made in China

Customer Reviews

Poorly built
This fell apart within hours of use. Put it back together again a number of times, but its weak plastic mechanisms cracked, rendering it useless. I have rubix cubes that I won at funfairs years ago that still work perfectly fine. Not good enough.

Lacking purpose
What I found after some consideration is that this take on Rubik's Cube is seemingly impossible to solve. The 8 numbers around each centre have no realation whatsoever to the centre number its self, meaning that there is no indication as to where they should go. This creates the problem that if you somehow manage to decode one side of the cube, there is no resulting clue as to how the other sides should be orientated.

It would appear therefore that the only way to solve this cube is by complete guess work. Why am I making such a big deal? Becasue the number of different permutations on this cube is 519 quintillion, so you are more likely to win the lottery several times in a row than you are likely to solve the sudoku cube.

Was a bad idea!
This item was sent to me in a bubble wrap envelope which wasn't appropriate as by the time it arrived the packaging was battered and open in places and had to be removed altogether before wrapping it as it was a birthday present. As a toy....if you can complete a rubiks cube you may have a chance but i still wouldn't bet on it!