Although it is widely reported that the Cube was built as a teaching tool to help his students understand 3D objects, his actual purpose was solving the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart.

In the mid-1970s, Ernő Rubik worked at the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest. Packaging of Rubik's Cube, Toy of the year 1980–Ideal Toy Corp., Made in Hungary. The original 3×3×3 version celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2010. Similar puzzles have now been produced with various numbers of stickers, not all of them by Rubik. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid colour. A pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, among six solid colours (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow). It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy.

As of January 2009, 350 million cubes have sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. in 1980 and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. Originally called the 'Magic Cube', the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. The Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.

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