An invention to play

Erno Rubik's father was an engineer and his mother was  a poet. He was born in Budapest in 1944. After leaving school, he studied architectureand desing at the Technical University. In the 1970s he worked as an architect and his spare time invented a mechanical puzzle. Rubik called it the "Magic Cube". It soon became popular in Hungary and the rest of Europe. In 1975 he taught architecture, but he continued to invent puzzles. In the early 1980s the cube became popular in the USA too, and got a new name: "Rubik's Cube". It is the world's best-selling toy - some people say there are 300 million cubes in the world. Rubik became very rich and went to invent many more games and puzzles.