Fifty-four little squares. 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations. One right one.

For a few years there, everybody owned one of these. Almost nobody conquered it. Most of us made one gorgeous block of color, felt briefly like a genius, and then looked at the other mixed up sides.

This Sunday, the Rubik's Cube comes out of the toy box, and we'll talk about what to do when you're holding something that just doesn't cooperate, no matter how you turn it.