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Sudoku Cube
The Sudoku Cube or Sudokube is a variation on a Rubik's Cube in which the faces have numbers one to nine on the sides instead of colours. The aim is to solve Sudoku puzzles on one or more of the sides. The toy was created in 2006 by Jay Horowitz in Sebring, Ohio.
Production.
The Sudoku Cube was invented by veteran toy maker Jay Horowitz after he had the idea to combine Sudoku and a Rubik's Cube. Horowitz already owned molds to produce Rubik's Cubes and
names. Milan Vodicka, the inventor, initially gave it the name "Nine-Colour Scramble Cube", which reflected the key feature and the "de facto" objective of the puzzle. This name was later shortened by some to Nine-Colour Cube. When Meffert's started mass-producing the puzzle, the company changed the shape of the cubies into spheres and thus adopted the name Ball Sudoku Cube (since the aim of the puzzle is similar to that of the Sudoku Cube). However, when Recent Toys