The creators of Tetris and the Rubik's Cube just unveiled a puzzle that combines both
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Two legends of puzzle history finally met face to face last December, and they had a lot to talk about.
Alexei Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, and Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube, met for the first time in December 2025, brought together by Japanese toymaker MegaHouse to celebrate a new collaboration between their two iconic brands.
The result is Rubik's Tetris, a standard 3x3x3 cube where, instead of matching solid colors, players arrange colored blocks so that all seven Tetris tetrominoes appear simultaneously across the cube's faces. It sells for $15.
What makes the meeting memorable is the mutual admiration on display. Pajitnov said he would place the Rubik's Cube aboard an interstellar spacecraft as evidence of human civilization, but wasn't sure his own game would qualify. Rubik, for his part, said he never expected his invention to still be so beloved, 52 years after building the original prototype.
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