 One of the world's most famous puzzles turns 50 this year. There's never been a puzzle quite like Rubik's Cube, and America may never be the same. Yes, the Rubik's Cube. The creator is an 80-year-old Hungarian architect, Erno Rubik. Back in the day, he was a professor in Budapest, fascinated with geometry, and he created a prototype in 1974 that took him months to solve. So the creator of the Rubik's Cube, Mr. Rubik himself, was stumped by his own inventions.