The Cube: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Bestselling Puzzle - Secrets, Stories, Solutions (Review)

One of the last BANGs had a Rubik's cube puzzle in it. After that, I decided it would be cool to try and learn how to solve one. At the same BANG, someone mentioned that Wei-Hwa co-authored a book on this particular subject, so I decided to read said book.

For my purposes, The Cube: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Bestselling Puzzle - Secrets, Stories, Solutions was great. It didn't take too much reading to figure out how to solve the cube following the steps in the book. There were lots of pictures with colors and the text was good enough to figure out which way you have to orient the cube while twisting it around. Note, I'm not very good at the whole "spatial" thing, so being able to stare at the pictures to figure out how to twist the darn thing was key. One gripe I do have - the authors decided to use some rare colors (pink, cyan, ...) such that the readers wouldn't get confused if their cube had similar colors. Unfortunately, there were still times where I got confused by the colors in the book. Some of the moves in the book are easy to remember, some of them, not so much. My goal is to be able to solve a cube without having to refer to the book in the future. We'll see how much work I'm willing to put into this :-)

The history part and the descriptions of the other cube-like-puzzles sections were pretty fun too, lots of pictures. I found a few things that I played with when I was a kid. Since the book also includes directions on how to solve a 4x4x4 cube... of course now I want to get my paws on one so I can attempt it.