they were a craze in the 70's. They also are puzzles, a certain people with a certain mentality cant stop trying to figure out puzzles until they have solved them, and sometimes trying to do it as fast as possible over and over again????. Mostly they are just a 'bit of fun' to everyone else..go figure"!
If you have got enough cubes, as many as you like.
43,252,003,274,489,856,000. I know, right?!
488 cubes
3 cubes x 3 rows = 9 cubes
The best way to find the tricks is you just watch some of the youtube videos about solving the rubix cube. There are many excellent videos that would teach you the tricks quickly.
24 cubes would be it.
Coal cubes: 0. Sugar cubes: 0 Painted cubes: maybe some of them.
13 cubes 4,9,16,25,36,46,64,81,100,121,144,169,196
there are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different colour combinations possible on a Rubik cube.
20 cubes
Assuming that the cubes are 1x1x1, there will be one thousand cubes in the larger cube.
A standard box of Rogers sugar cubes typically contains 60 cubes.