The Rubik’s cube was a simple puzzle, where a 3 X 3 cube with six colors had to be twisted and lined up so you only had one color per face of the cube.

The cube (and you should be ashamed if you haven’t seen one before!) looks like this:

It was actually invented in 1974 by Erno Rubik, and In September 1979, a deal was signed with Ideal Toys to bring the Magic Cube to the Western world.

The puzzle made its international debut at the toy fairs of London, Paris, Nuremberg and New York in January and February 1980 - hence the entry here in onlythe80s.