Is it a
toy? Is it a
puzzle?
Hmm ...

... bit of
BOTH, actually!
How many of us of "a certain
vintage" recall
feverishly "pitting our wits"
![23 111 9[1]](images/smilies/23_111_9[1].gif)
... in an all too often
forlorn attempt to
twist into proper
alignment, the
gaily coloured squares comprising this
unique device, the brainchild of Hungarian Professor Erno Rubik - whose eponymous creation [presumably]
*earned [
*pun intended] the guy a fortune (though,
reportedly, no~one's privvy as to the amount) - more than four decades ago?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35105169