For the first time in years, I have seen 3x3x3 cubes for sale in a
store. (For American readers, the store is Hills, which is a regional
chain which competes against WalMart and Kmart. The price is $8.97 --
U.S. dollars.) The box has a note signed by Erno Rubik, and gives
the proper size of the cube group. Also, and I couldn't see inside
the box to verify this, the Face centers seemed to be marked in such
a way as to support the Supergroup. Rubik's note about the size of
the problem says it is 4^4 times bigger than the regular problem.
The manufacturer (or maybe distributor?) is Matchbox Toys (or is it
Matchbook Toys?).
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