This event is the next in the League of Extraordinary Celebrations
Organised on behalf of the League of Extraordinary Cachers who are a group of people who promote Caching in many ways, primarly via Lots of Electronic Contraptions
While this event is Celebrate people and things is will also provide the traditional parts of a geocaching event
Usual Geocaching Event Items
The Log Book to sign to say you attended, of course you could bring a Rubiks Cube and Demostrate your skills with it
A box into which Travel Bugs and Coins can be placed for discovery or swapping
People to answer questions about the pastime
People to answer questions about caches that are eluding you
Event Specific Items
The Address is - Maze Garden, 68 Street End Lane, Sidlesham, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 7RG
It is an outdoor event, from 10:00 to 12:00
Wear appropriate clothing
There will be a shelter, not neccasarily big enough for everyone
There is a Car Park at the Coordinates (Not the biggest, about 20 Cars)
Challenging Maze to walk through
There are two dates on which International Puzzle Day
29th January - this celebrates the Board Games etc
13th July - Celebrates the Birth of Dr. Erno Rubik, the inventor of Rubik’s Cube.
To assist in this celebration there is the opportunity to visit a Maze that is only open to the public one day a year, It seems apt that this visit is on International Puzzle Day, 13th July 2019, the owners, Richard and Sandra Bushby have kindly agreed to its opening for Geocachers to visit and enter the maze
The garden has a number of other garden themes and related attractions
The Maze was constructed over a number of years with Leylandii trees
There will be a £3.00 entrance fee to the Maze / Garden, this maybe unsual but this is an unsual time of opening the gardens
The Person this day pays homage to is
Enro Rubik was born on July 13, 1944 in Budapest, Hungary during World War II. Rubik’s famous invention, the Rubik’s cube, became a worldwide craze in the 1980s. Within a year after the toy was first exported from Rubik’s native Hungary in May of 1980, sales of the toy topped five million. Manufacturers of the puzzle found it difficult to keep up with the skyrocketing demand, and production centers around the world had to be expanded.
Over 100 million Rubik’s cubes were sold between 1980 and 1982. The Rubik’s cube won the highest prize in Hungary for the best invention, as well as top toy awards around the world. The makers of the original Rubik’s cube, Ideal Toy Corporation, won lawsuits around the world against the makers of the fake cubes. Interestingly, the patent for the Rubik’s cube, a 1974 patent for the “Magic Cube,” applies only in Hungary. The toy is not protected from unauthorized copies under patent law. Instead, the Rubik’s cube is protected from reproductions as a work of art.
When Erno Rubik invented the toy in 1974, he created one hand-made cube, and part of his goal was to create a challenging three-dimensional puzzle with aesthetic value. Thus, the cube is protected by copyright law until 70 years after the death of its creator.
The Rubik’s cube was placed on exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1981. Rubik still lives in Hungry. He founded the Rubik Studio where he designed furniture and games. He became the president of the Hungarian Engineering Academy and created the International Rubik Foundation to support talented engineers and industrial designers. Today he is retired but the Rubik’s Studio continues its work with young designers.