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Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

A Day In The Life at 27:10 has a girl solving a Rubik's Cube while Hula Hooping.

juanan · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:45 pm

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Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

On episode 14th of the 3rd season of The Cosby Show, there is a Rubik's World featured in the background (This episode was first aired on January 15th, 1987).

Skarabajo.

Jay · **Joined:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:34 pm

This was in a Blue Beetle comic a few years ago.

Burgo · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:58 am

Saw this on advert on the tele today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqz7EYiluc0

Cheers,
Burgo.

RubiksMaster614 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:56 pm **Location:** Chicago,

Had to show it, sorry if it was posted before.
The Cabin in the Woods movie poster

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Thought I'd post this, sorry if it's been posted before:

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BN · **Joined:** Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:35 am

Not sure if this has been posted. A sudoku cube in an episode of a series called Sherlock.

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

There is a Rubik's Cube on this year's poster for the Festival International des Jeux de Cannes. As always, the colors are almost randomly placed...

Skarabajo.

Gus · **Posted:** Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:01 am

I think that I should have posted this here first

buyextraonline · **Joined:** Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:25 am

i love this hair style! do you?

Thomas · **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2012 6:24 pm

http://vimeo.com/41690874
Nice stop-motion video with some cubes in it.
The best bit is at the 3:00 minute mark.

Thomas

bmenrigh · **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2012 11:39 pm

I recently came across this political (satire?) website: http://thepeoplescube.com/. I especially like:

A true communist cuber's dream -- all positions are equal.

You can buy one for $21.99 (capitalist exploitation units) at http://thepeoplescube.com/store/the_peoples_cube.php.

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

On the 7th episode of the 1st season of Touch, there is a Hungarian Supernova in the last scene.

On the 10th episode, there are some puzzles as well. The ones that are apparent: a Rubik's cube, a Pyraminx and a Trajber's Octahedron, which is completely bandaged with triangular stickers.

Skarabajo.

Jeffery Mewtamer · **Joined:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:18 am

In Season 4, Episode 13 of Qin's Moon, Ting Ming is given the task of solving a Rubik's Cube as part of his training. By episode's end, we see him speed solve the cube to the astonishment of the gathered Chiefs of the Mohist School.

Also, the Mohist School's Cube is quite awesome between the inset gemstones and having an internal mechanism to make it self-scrambling.

X-TownCuber · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:37 pm

At an '80s themed shop in King's Island (amusement park) I found this.

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Surprisingly, it had the correct color scheme and (as far as I could tell) was solvable.

Bunstan · **Joined:** Sun May 06, 2012 11:35 am

Just saw this in the Uk's Guardian Newspaper -

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Society/documents/2012/06/27/NGOstechnologytoGCv3.pdf

It doesn't actually mention the cube in the article, but I guess he was using it to effect.

You can tell someone was trying to solve it before, but only to got one face, not a layer. :scrambled:

Doug Roth · **Joined:** Sun May 29, 2011 2:56 pm **Location:** New York

A VolksWagon commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T890RerRerw

pooya13 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:56 am

Anyone else spotted Timur's Professor Pyraminx on last night episode of Continuum?

I was rather surprised to see one of the less popular twisty puzzles such as this one on TV!

Drake · **Joined:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:48 pm **Location:** Canada

pooya13 wrote:

Anyone else spotted Timur's Professor Pyraminx on last night episode of Continuum?

I was rather surprised to see one of the less popular twisty puzzles such as this one on TV!

Yeah but even there, that's a Canadian TV show, and puzzlemaster was/is selling those from meffert's a little bit evry where in Canada, but it's still pretty cool

!

Kattenvriendin · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:56 pm

Shoot.. indeed!

I watched it, but I missed it!

(though I DO have to say that I was cubing in the mean time, so.. yeah.. heh)

But wow!

Timur · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:42 am

pooya13 wrote:

Anyone else spotted Timur's Professor Pyraminx on last night episode of Continuum?

Wow! Can you give me some timing hint when it appeared?

pooya13 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:56 am

Timur wrote:

pooya13 wrote:

Anyone else spotted Timur's Professor Pyraminx on last night episode of Continuum?

Wow! Can you give me some timing hint when it appeared?

Yeah sure, it's about 40':30'' into the sixth episode of this first season

E Jenkins · **Joined:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:19 pm

In The Amazing Spiderman (the movie that recently released), Peter Parker has a Rubik's Cube on his desk.

PuzzleMaster6262 · **Joined:** Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:00 am **Location:** Colorado

E Jenkins wrote:

In The Amazing Spiderman (the movie that recently released), Peter Parker has a Rubik's Cube on his desk.

As a kid he was holding a scrambled one, probably just to show us he grew up and became a genius.

bmenrigh · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:56 pm

I was driving yesterday and I saw a hotel logo that immediately reminded me of a Pyraminx Crystal:

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pooya13 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:56 am

mitchblahman wrote:

I was just watching Tim Burton's Batman and noticed in one of the scenes that there is not only a Rubik's cube, but a 3x3 cuboctahedron
which leads me to believe someone on the team for that movie must have been a cuber
just an interesting fact, I can't find a picture of it because I'm not sure how to play the movie on my computer but if anyone else could that would be awesome (the movie came out in 1989 so whoever put it there must have really been a fanatic)

I was just watching Batman (1989) and saw the scene with the Cuboctahedron, it's about 52-53 minutes into the movie.
(I'm rewatching all the previous ones before I see the new one on the big screen

)

katsmom · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:29 am

In "American reunion" about ten minutes into the flick, there's a cube on Jim's desk.

Doug Roth · **Joined:** Sun May 29, 2011 2:56 pm **Location:** New York

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4DJoRsx ... _embedded#!
Andrew Ricci goes on Nick and struts his stuff.

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Sky News just ran a section on arts and entertainment in the orient, and showed clips from a speedcubing competition. Did anyone else see it?

HeX · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:10 pm

2 pyraminxes in Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle.

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Top picture- Burr puzzle on the councillors desk in Awkward.
Second picture- Rubik's Cube on the Geek's desk (of course) in Suburgatory

eye2eye · **Posted:** Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:20 pm

Tony Fisher wrote:

Top picture- Burr puzzle on the councillors desk in Awkward.
Second picture- Rubik's Cube on the Geek's desk (of course) in Suburgatory

I hate to go off topic, but Tony, why were you watching Awkward?

Zzupler · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:26 am

A scrambled Rubik's cube at 9 mins in the pilot of the TV series Revolution:

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Fredrik · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 2:47 pm

This Swedish McDonalds commercial features a girl OH solving a 3x3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhsr1DMurLA&feature=plcp

BN · **Joined:** Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:35 am

A Rubik's Cube "costume" on the TV show Parks and Recreation. The color scheme is a million kinds of screwed up.

There was also a cube in an earlier episode but I'm too lazy to go back and find it.

mixer · **Joined:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:33 am **Location:** Belgium

Nalu commercial with slide puzzles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ed9Psbj3jo

Benf207 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:24 pm

Did anyone else catch the 3 3x3 animations for the best variety series show category? They had a few different things on them as they twisted around and turned. Faces of the nominees and their shows, such as Jon Stewart (who won for the 10th consecutive time), etc. and in the end they just displayed the "VARIETY".

Gus · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:41 am

Looks like Garfield has been having some trouble with a 3x3x3 solve in yesterday's strip:

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X-TownCuber · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:37 pm

Man, that color scheme hurts. the two blue-green corners belong in the same place.....no wonder Garfield is frustrated.

juanan · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:46 am

wine ?

katsmom · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:36 am

juanan wrote:

wine ?

I'd buy that! Just for the bottles mind, not the wine inside.

TheNextFeliks · **Joined:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:11 am

There is a sudoku cube in Austin & Ally. It is on the piano in the practice room.

Fredrik · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:53 pm

The Discovery channel show Superhuman Showdown showed speedcuber Gabriel Barbar solving some cubes, saying that he was able to solve a cube in 7.8 sec. He also solved 3 3x3s blindfolded in one "look", impressive! They also said that he illustrated all the moves in his head before carrying them out. I dont know if its completely true, but if it is, please prove me wrong

Melysa · **Joined:** Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:30 pm **Location:** New York

On the tv show called The Neighbors, the alien kid (played by Tim Jo) solved one...and the threw it in a pile of them.

juanan · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:03 pm

curiosities about rubiks cube

Robert111 · **Joined:** Sun May 30, 2010 5:29 pm **Location:** England

BBC did an article on the Polish WCA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19934515

brainboy19 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:49 pm

There was a poster in the health room at my high school that said "puzzled by nutrition?" and showed a Rubik's cube with pictures of food on it. AWESOME!

MiSenIn · **Joined:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:33 am

I saw it in "The Expendables II"

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Just watched our very own David Calvo solve Rubik's Cubes underwater on Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records, ITV2 (UK channel).

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