A Good Office Time Killer...

So I don't exactly remember when, why or how this schnazzy little guy ended up on my desk, but it did. I believe I saw one on a desk in customer service and found one for myself. I twisted it into some oddly mangled shape (all the blocks are connected by a rubber band) and then set in for some fun, trying to put it back together. Yeah, NOT as easy as it looks.

It's like a Rubik's Cube, but significantly easier. This clearly makes me the stupidest person on the planet. So it sat on my desk looking like a train wreck for a while, while I did my other work. Our art director Keri came in to go over something and while I was searching the site for an answer, she picked up the evil puzzle. She solved it in under two minutes. I chalked it up to it being an "art person" thing.

But then Tony, our sales manager, re-mangled it and solved it too.

I decided not to destroy the puzzle, knowing that it would only cause me mental anguish (which is funny seeing as the product is named the Leeds Mental Block). Then this morning Kristen popped in with a product question and picked up the puzzle. Morphing it completely out of whack, she procliamed "Abstract! I love it!" And then walked away leaving me with my block of mental anguish.

But I just spent about 5 minutes and SOLVED it! The lesson here is: Only let Kristen mess up the puzzle.

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And I suppose I should thank Erno Rubik for the headache. Check out this cool article about the history of the Rubik's Cube!