puzzles
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The Voynich Manuscript: A 700 Year Old Coded Book That Hasn’t Been Cracked
Perhaps the world’s greatest literary mystery, the Voynich Manuscript has been plaguing code crackers for roughly 700 years. At 240 pages, the medieval manuscript is written in an unknown or coded language and filled with pictures of exotic plants, naked figures and the stars. Nobody knows what it actually is, or where it originated.
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Learn To Solve A Rubik’s Cube In Less Than Two Minutes
Video: Did you know there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways to scramble the 54 coloured squares on a Rubik’s Cube? So how do those record-holding geniuses manage to solve them so quickly? As Mike Boyd discovered, there are some clever tricks you can use that take less than a day to learn.
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Melbourne Guy Breaks 5×5 Rubik’s Cube Record Without Breaking A Sweat
Feliks Zemdegs solved his 5×5 cube at Melbourne Cube Day in 44.837 seconds. And the crowd went not at all wild.
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In Just 0.887 Seconds Another Machine Has Already Shattered The Rubik’s Cube World Record
Video: In early February, Jay Flatland and Paul Rose’s Rubik’s Cube-solving machine set a new world record with an astonishing time of just 0.9 seconds. But just two days before that happened, a new contender, Adam Beer’s Sub1, managed to solve a cube in just 0.887 seconds.