Rubik’s 360
- Tilt and turn the Rubik¿s 360 and guide each ball into the matching colored dome
- It¿s harder than it looks. Lock all six balls into place to beat this challenge
- It¿s a new spin on the ultimate strategy puzzle
- New challenge from the makers of Rubik’s Cube.
- Includes Rubik¿s 360 stand and instructions
Product Description
Rubik’s Cube creator, Professor Erno Rubik, has created another devious brainteaser called Rubik’s 360. The puzzle features six colored balls trapped within three transparent spheres. The object is to guide each ball into the matching colored dome located on the outer sphere. Instructions and Rubik’s 360 stand included…. More >>
5 Comments Already for “Rubik’s 360”
As a rubik fanatic and resolver of the original 3×3 rubik cube I took in your hands this really odd looking sphere and start to work with gravity and dinamics WOW!!! get the first ball in the right place and you ll be laughing. Is really funny! I recommend you, i think this will be great in schools!
Rating: 5 / 5
Gave one to husband and father, not easy to solve. buy it if you like a challange, otherwise you will want to break it from frustration.
Rating: 5 / 5
My grandson had great fun with this rubik’s toy. His dad (who can solve a cube in nothing flat) also enjoyed it. Fun for all ages! And we got a picture when they got it finished!
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a beautiful little puzzle, very appealing design and heft in your hands. However, unlike the original Rubix Cube, which my kids all love, they feel this one is “hopeless”. The great thing about the original Rubix Cube is that for younger kids, they can still feel like they’ve made a lot of progress if they only get one face fixed on the puzzle. So it is still fun for them. And with patience and some logic, if they spend enough time, they are bound to succeed in getting at least one face.
However this game is more of a motor skill game, where you flip the ball around in certain ways to get the holes to line up and the ball to drop through. There are no few psychological payoffs along the way – getting 4 squares, now 5, now 6. The 360 is more all or nothing — basically once you learn the strategy for getting one ball in, you can get them all in.
So I don’t really recommend this for kids, unless they are very gifted and patient kids — I’d stick with the regular Rubix Cube. However, for adults or anyone else looking for a new and interesting puzzle, this would be a nice curiousity.
Rating: 4 / 5
The rubik’s cube is a wonderful and challenging puzzle. I have put hours into the original cube and rarely solve it. The rubik’s 360 is not a challenge at all. Once you figure out two things, it’s a matter of minutes and luck until you’ve “solved” this toy.
There are three plastic spheres of different sizes, with the smallest in the middle one, and both encased in the outermost sphere. The inner two rotate, on different axes. There are six colored “pods” on the outermost sphere, corresponding to the 6 colored balls that start in the innermost sphere. The idea is simple: tilt and twist the toy until the balls fall through holes in the spheres and end up in their pods.
The rubik’s 360 is frustrating. The innermost sphere has a hole on one side, and a weight on the other side. This makes it so that every time you rotate the toy, the colored balls are always opposite the hole they need to go through. You can take advantage of the fact that the axes are at different angles try and coax the balls into the hole. Without fail one of the spheres will suddenly drop (due to the weights on them) and ruin everything you’d worked for.
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From my time with the 360 so far, there doesn’t seem to be much strategy or logic needed. It’s more of a luck thing. It’s worth small price, but not the challenge I hoped it would be.
Rating: 3 / 5