Rubik's Connected

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About this game

Rubik's Connected is the classic cube redesigned for the 21st century - a Smart and Connected Cube.
With its new technology, the Smart Rubik's offers new and exciting play experiences for all levels of players, all ages and all capabilities. These include fun interactive tutorials for beginners, statistics and challenges for players who wish to level up their game, and the world's first online cubing league and competition, turning the Rubik's Cube into a social connected world.
More than that, the App propose casual games that employ the cube as a controller, enable anyone to enjoy the classic toy, even if they are not interested in learning how to solve it.

Learn (for beginners) -
A fun interactive tutorial will safely guide you through the world's most known puzzle secrets.
The tutorials breaks the complex solving challenge into small fun mini-steps, and includes videos, tips and real time feedback.

Improve (Intermediates & Pros) -
Practice and monitor your progress with advanced stats and play analytics.
It measure your play down to the millisecons. It provides accurate data for your solve time, speed, and moves.
It will automatically identify your solving algorithm, and will provide you the relevant measurement for each individual step in it.

Compete (for all levels) -
Matches include various playing modes, from fun scrambling competitions (spaceship racing for all levels) to pro's versus battle matches.
Get into the world's first Leaderboard, and join live competitions. Players can pick from boards of people to challenge friends or strangers.
To ensure a fair battle, The App recognizes the starting position of each player and guides them through a unique set of moves to reach a common starting position.

Play-
Mini-games, missions and third party games incorporate various aspects of cubing in order to improve handling skills, instincts, or simple games for pure fun.

* Be sure that your smartphone meets the following minimum requirements:
Android 6.0 or higher
Bluetooth version 4.1 or higher.

* Permissions:
Storage and Camera: Optional (not mandatory).
Needed to load a profile picture (upload from your album or take a new one with your camera).
Location: Mandatory.
In Android, location services are required (defined by Goolge) to enable Bluetooth Low Energy (from Android 6 and higher).

Ratings and reviews

A LOT of moves and algorithms thrown at you at once to solve the cube completely. It would be better to learn one "stage" at a time to learn what to look for and master those algorithms first before moving onto the next "stage". By solving the cube completely every time, you forget how to do some of the first stages or layers. Suggest completing the first stage or two, rescramble, then do it again a few times before moving on. Learning the complete solve EVERY time gets frustrating.

It took forever to figure out that I wasn't allowed to move the cube while instructions were being explained. Also, in the middle of the layer explanations, I couldn't remember the Left sequence, and I couldn't go back to look it up. At one point, I had several layers solved, and the app wanted me undo everything I did, so I could through its tutorial. The next section was locked until I did. Which was irritating. All in all, the app is's a great start. It just needs some more user testing.

My impressions are mixed. The tutorial feature works pretty well but kids may struggle with the >30 min of concentration required. Since the app easily loses the cube's actual state it's actually easier to solve the cube and use the "Load Solved Cube" feature than to manually enter the colors. More advanced cubers may find solo scramble more frustrating than relying on WCA charts and it's not available when you lack internet, umm WHY!? Overall I found it more trouble than it's worth.

What's new

- New Weekly / Monthly / Yearly Leaderboards for both Solo and Pro modes
- Introducing Cubing (platform)
- Bug Fixes