Rubik's Cube 360 | 
| Brand: Rubik's Cube
List Price: $14.99
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Seller: Target.com/ITC
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 341
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 4 x 6.5 x 9.5
MPN: 037110000
Model: 3711
UPC: 653569399100
EAN: 0653569399100
ASIN: B001RNHRF0
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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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.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Good ,but not enough...Surely must have for rubik maniaks! October 20, 2009
George
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Before rubik 360 came into my hands i read about it on internet and i was very excited! I heard from a video Rubik saying that this puzzle will have the same succes as the cube and also that the cube and the 360 puzzle have many common things, allthough different problem solving logic... So when 360 came to me i was hopping for a puzzle that i can deal with it for hours and discover many interesting things before i conclude to a solution, just as happend with the cube(3x3).
Result:
1-5 minutes:Very very very cool design!
6-8 minutes:It seems impossible to solve!
8-10 minutes: Yes! I can get some balls into the right positions but it seems
just luck or that it needs very specific and talented moves by
your hands!
11-25 minutes:There must be a specific and not random way, i am so close!
26 minute: The puzzle is completely solved :(
Conclusion:
Absolutely cool design , genius concept, far more easy than rubik's cube.
I surely recomend it to evryone who wants a fresh and good puzzle, but not to those who seek a great challenge!
 Not a mind challenge, but a skill game. October 16, 2009
A. Gonzalez (Ponce, Puerto Rico)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I received this new Rubik's as a gift. I am an adult, and am able to complete the original Cube, with still some challenge. When I got this I was at first glance a bit intimidated by the design of the puzzle. But, unfortunately, I quickly found out that this game is NOT a game of logic at all, but a very simple exercise of skill. It basically consists of flipping the thing over and over and over and over until you manage to grab a little ball, then again, using some skill and patience drive the little ball into its proper hole. At first, it took me about 20 minutes to figure how the contraption swings due to some little metal weights inside. Once I captured the first ball, the next one took me about 10, then about 5, etc --- once again, not due to any mental strain, but to the fact that you need to be very skilled and, honestly, kind of lucky to catch the tiny balls. Overall, the puzzle took me about 50 minutes to complete, which was very disappointing considering the original cube took me 20 years to figure, and still challenges me.
As a game of skill, this game requires you to be seated, completely still, taking breaths to juggle around the tiny balls; so it lacks the 'portability' of the original.
Overall, this is a novelty game that carries a huge name, and probably, the assertion of it being a Rubik is what makes it precisely fall so short of my expectations.
On the pro side: anyone can do this, even a monkey with enough shaking.
 THe funniest RUBIK of all time!!! September 30, 2009
Edmundo Acosta Heredia (Guayaquil, Ecuador)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a rubik fanatic and resolver of the original 3x3 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!
Another Great Puzzle September 6, 2009
L
After having learned how to solve the Rubik's Cube about 2 years ago I became more or less a collector of Rubik's products, and I must say that I am proud to have the 360 in my collection. The puzzle is very well designed, and if you're playing for the first time, it does take a bit of playing around to figure out the trick to solving it. However, it is not the most difficult puzzle in the Rubik's library. It ranks as more of a puzzle for anyone, whereas with the original Cube and any of the variations, you need to have a decent amount of patience to solve it (not to mention courage, when you get to the 4x4 or 5x5, neither of which I am brave enough to attempt). The 360 can be a bit frustrating, but if you work for a few hours you can get it. It's not nearly as bad as getting lost when you're almost done solving the Cube.
Cube experience does not seem to help; I don't know if this goes for "Cubers", but my fastest time on the Cube is a little under one minute, and it still took me a few hours of work (not necessarily all at once) to finish the 360. Regardless, it is a great puzzle for any Rubik's or puzzle fan, and the feeling when you finally solve it is impossible to describe.
PS: Amazon asked me to rate the "Educational Value" of the 360, and I gave it 2 stars, because if you really focus hard enough you can learn about gravity. =P Also, it feels pretty durable, but I can't be sure because I don't throw my Rubik's puzzles into walls or smash them on the floor (even if they can be annoying!).
3 Spheres + 6 Balls + 0 Cubes = Rubik's 360! August 19, 2009
a reader
Erno Rubik has done it again! The genius behind the most legendary hand held puzzles of our time is back with the Rubik's 360.
The first thing you will notice, is how beautiful this things is!! A clear sphere with 2 smaller clear spheres inside it the classic Rubik colors have returned for the balls and domes and the rotation device gives the toy a black outline. I'm happy with the product it looks great and seems very durable.
I have been waiting for this for months and I wasn't disappointed. Mr. Rubik's newest invention I think will please both the novices and veterans of his puzzles. The Rubik's 360 is without a doubt different from his other popular puzzles because there is more of an element of the unpredictable. Algorithms were vital for the Cube, but not here. You will tilt the 360 in all kinds of crazy directions hoping one of the balls will get out of the first sphere and makes it way past the second sphere so it has a shot at returning to its dome. Believe me, it's much more trickier than it sounds. However, if you keep at it I'm sure you will solve it within a few hours.
The 360 isn't nearly as difficult as the Cube, but what really makes it fun is how unpredictable solving it can be. Very often, the balls will roll out of the first sphere just to loop back again to reset their position. That trademark Rubik frustration is back with a new spin! Gravity is your nemesis here. I think expert speed solvers would have hard time mastering this in record time because of the less predicable nature of it. So I think the 360 will get plenty of respect from the hard core, puzzle crowd.
Anyways, if you thought the Rubik's Cube was too intimating, the Rubik's Snake was too easy, and the Rubik's Magic was too fragile than the Rubik's 360 might be the perfect puzzle for you. There are plenty of puzzles with the Rubik name, but the ones actually designed by Mr. Rubik are the best! Don't miss your chance to play this creative, addictive, and unpredictable puzzle.
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