Question 658: Rubik’s Cube or Magic 8-Ball? (and why…)
Goodness. I could never solve a Rubik’s Cube. I’m not sure if I’m spatially challenged or impatient, but my first efforts took too much effort and thought. (I do a word puzzle among several other online games every morning and compare the results with Timothy and Jim, who do the same games. One of those word puzzles requires more strategy than the others, and isn’t my strongest game.)
So of course, I’m choosing Magic 8-Ball. What exactly is it that I use my most creative time for? I choose words from millions of words and string them together into stories that bring people and events to life all by means of ideas in my head. Is it not in the very NAME of the object: MAGIC?
Let’s put that question to Magic 8-Ball.
The answer?
I rest my case.
ETA: Later edited to add this to my Numbers Photo Series as No. 11. Also it’s Pick One No. 11. See? Magic.
Ask a Rubik’s Cube, and you get the language of colorful responses.
Ask Simon, and you get the language of 4 colours and 4 beeps. Are they swearing?
I’ve never played Ask Simon. Is it timed? Stuff that’s timed adds too much pressure!
Simon is the round four colored beeper that you’re supposed to repeat back its seemingly random sequence. I thought of Simon after Rubik when I was imagining are those 4 colors and beeps really a message? The 4 colors and the 4 beeps leapt to swearing 4 letter words.
Outside asking seemingly unemotional objects the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, you know, everything only to be convinced that we simply don’t understand what the question actually is, I would also pick the incredibly attractive, flexible and culturally colorful Rubik. Ol’ Magic gave me too many two-faced edges.
Ha!