Overview of the interactive “Rubik’s Cube” GoCube: now you will definitely learn how to solve it

Who among us does not know the Rubik’s cube? This puz­zle was pop­u­lar in the 80s of the last cen­tu­ry, and in our time. To cor­rect­ly assem­ble col­ored faces, you need to know the the­o­ry and for­mu­las. I tried to mas­ter them, but there was not enough time, and I gave up. Now I have an inter­ac­tive ver­sion of the cube in my hands, which will teach you how to assem­ble your­self cor­rect­ly. And not only this.

GoCube is an inter­ac­tive mod­el. It con­nects to a smart­phone via an appli­ca­tion (via Blue­tooth), although it can be used as a pure­ly mechan­i­cal toy with­out con­nec­tions. More­over, tac­tile­ly this cube is much more pleas­ant than its pro­to­type. The edges are round­ed, the rota­tion is smoother and eas­i­er. Struc­tural­ly, these are all the same 6 faces of dif­fer­ent col­ors, 9 ele­ments on each.

In one of the faces there are 4 thin holes — a con­nec­tor is insert­ed into them. On the oth­er side of the con­nec­tor is a reg­u­lar USB, so you can charge the cube through any adapter. The whole process takes just over an hour.

What can?

Inside the cube are sen­sors that deter­mine the posi­tion of each face and the ori­en­ta­tion of the device as a whole. In the appli­ca­tion, you see its dig­i­tal copy — say, if you rotate it to the right, the image will also rotate. Spin the edge — it will scroll around the vir­tu­al cube as well. If you are con­fused about the assem­bly scheme and just need a hint, you can enter a spe­cial mode in which the appli­ca­tion itself will tell you what and where to twist. Under his guid­ance, you can gen­er­al­ly assem­ble a cube with­out any knowl­edge (but this, of course, is not so inter­est­ing).

A much more prac­ti­cal mode is “Acad­e­my”. Here you are just being taught the­o­ries, and the process is also built in an inter­est­ing way: again with involve­ment in the inter­ac­tive. GoCube users report that they learned how to com­plete a cube from scratch in about 6–7 hours (for exam­ple, in a week, prac­tic­ing for an hour every day).

For advanced “col­lec­tors” there are var­i­ous com­pet­i­tive modes. You can com­pete against each oth­er (with one die), or you can take part in vir­tu­al match­es.

The most inter­est­ing thing is that oth­er games are pro­vid­ed in the cube. If you are tired of chas­ing col­ors back and forth, go to the “Games” mode. There are sev­er­al dif­fer­ent options here: for exam­ple, you can play the “Labyrinth”, where you just need to rotate the cube so as to roll the ball to the exit from the maze. Or in the “Kubon­a­tor”, where you need to play a cer­tain melody by rotat­ing the faces. Watch our video to see how it works.

Our opinion

GoCube can be bought for about 6500 rubles. This is a great inter­ac­tive toy that can not only enter­tain, but also teach a child or adult the basics of work­ing with algo­rithms.

The bat­tery charge will last for 4–5 hours, but even after it is dis­charged, you can con­tin­ue exper­i­ments — only with­out sup­port from the appli­ca­tion. By the way, want to know which video games have become the best-sell­ing in his­to­ry? Read the hit parade in our arti­cle.

In one of the faces there are 4 thin holes — a con­nec­tor is insert­ed into them. On the oth­er side of the con­nec­tor is a reg­u­lar USB, so you can charge the cube through any adapter. The whole process takes just over an hour.

What can?

Inside the cube are sen­sors that deter­mine the posi­tion of each face and the ori­en­ta­tion of the device as a whole. In the appli­ca­tion, you see its dig­i­tal copy — say, if you rotate it to the right, the image will also rotate. Spin the edge — it will scroll around the vir­tu­al cube as well. If you are con­fused about the assem­bly scheme and just need a hint, you can enter a spe­cial mode in which the appli­ca­tion itself will tell you what and where to twist. Under his guid­ance, you can gen­er­al­ly assem­ble a cube with­out any knowl­edge (but this, of course, is not so inter­est­ing).

A much more prac­ti­cal mode is “Acad­e­my”. Here you are just being taught the­o­ries, and the process is also built in an inter­est­ing way: again with involve­ment in the inter­ac­tive. GoCube users report that they learned how to com­plete a cube from scratch in about 6–7 hours (for exam­ple, in a week, prac­tic­ing for an hour every day).

For advanced “col­lec­tors” there are var­i­ous com­pet­i­tive modes. You can com­pete against each oth­er (with one die), or you can take part in vir­tu­al match­es.

The most inter­est­ing thing is that oth­er games are pro­vid­ed in the cube. If you are tired of chas­ing col­ors back and forth, go to the “Games” mode. There are sev­er­al dif­fer­ent options here: for exam­ple, you can play the “Labyrinth”, where you just need to rotate the cube so as to roll the ball to the exit from the maze. Or in the “Kubon­a­tor”, where you need to play a cer­tain melody by rotat­ing the faces. Watch our video to see how it works.

Our opinion

GoCube can be bought for about 6500 rubles. This is a great inter­ac­tive toy that can not only enter­tain, but also teach a child or adult the basics of work­ing with algo­rithms.

The bat­tery charge will last for 4–5 hours, but even after it is dis­charged, you can con­tin­ue exper­i­ments — only with­out sup­port from the appli­ca­tion. By the way, want to know which video games have become the best-sell­ing in his­to­ry? Read the hit parade in our arti­cle.