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GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS: TOYS, GAMES, AND MORE! 2016 Guinness World Records Limited. The words GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS and related logos are trademarks of Guinness World Records Limited. All records and information accurate as of February 29, 2016. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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FIRST EDITION

Guinness World Records holders are truly amazing, but all attempts to set or break records are performed under controlled conditions and at the participants own risk. Please seek out the appropriate guidance before you attempt any record-breaking activities.

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A nyone, anywhere, has the potential to be a record-breaker! For over 60 years, Guinness World Records (GWR) has timed, weighed, measured, verified, and documented thousands of the worlds record-breakers in every category that you can imagine. There are over 40,000 current records!

Record-breaking is free to do. If the GWR adjudicators (the official judges who confirm records) approve your idea for a new recordor if you can prove youve bettered an existing titleyoure on your way to becoming Officially Amazing!

Toys, Games, and More! is filled with playthings that are as fun as they are serious when it comes to breaking records. Youll find over 100 of them, from rubber duckies to building blocks, classic toys like yo-yos to the most popular arcade games, and none of these toys are playing around.

Take a look in your closet or dig around in your toy chestyou might just spot something that could help you earn a record of your own.

S olving a Rubiks Cube is a big accomplishment in itself. But that impressive feat isnt enough for this cryptic-crazy crew. Read on for some amazing stories of puzzle prowess, from Rubiks Cubes to jigsaw puzzles to a devils knotand meet a robot that can beat any human in a Rubiks race, hands down!

ULTIMATE FACT:

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways to scramble a Rubiks Cube!

FAST FINGERS

The Rubiks Cube is one of the most difficult puzzles to solve... unless youre Eric Limeback. The Canadian speed-cuber unscrambled 5,800 Rubiks Cubes in one daythe most Rubiks Cubes solved in 24 hoursat Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, on October 3, 2013. If youre wondering what a speed-cuber is, its someone who solves twisty puzzles like the Rubiks Cube as quickly as possible!

ULTIMATE FACT:

Erno Rubik invented the Rubiks Cube in 1974 as a working model to help visualize 3D geometry.

PUZZLE POWER

The Rubiks Cube is one of the best-selling toys of all timeover 350 million have been bought worldwide since it launched, and people such as the team members of Cubing Italy are part of the reason why. These puzzle-lovers solved the most Rubiks Cubes in one hour by a team: 1,860. They achieved the record in Mantova, Italy, on October 16, 2010. Of the total, 260 were unscrambled by the leading team member, Max Iovane.

PUZZLERS AT WORK

The people that puzzle together, solve together at the College of Engineering in Pune, Maharashtra, India. On November 4, 2012, a total of 3,248 puzzlers came together to earn the title for most people solving Rubiks Cubes simultaneously.

A PUZZLE A DAY

You might say German Sbastien Auroux is a year-round fan of Rubiks Cubeshe has the most solves in Rubiks Cube competitions in a year. This puzzle pro solved 2,033 of 2,122 Rubiks Cubes in World Cube Association competitionsthats the equivalent of more than 5.5 solves every day (and that doesnt include cubes solved outside of official events).

Sbastien also shares the record for the fewest average moves to complete a Rubiks Cube, finishing three cubes in an average of 25 moves in 2014. This feat was equaled by Vincent Shell in 2014 and Jan Bentlage in 2015.

ULTIMATE FACT:

Did you know that approximately one in seven people on the planet has played with a Rubiks Cube?

ROBOT RECORD

Human beings arent the only ones taking on Rubiks Cubes. On March 15, 2014, a robot called CUBESTORMER 3 (pictured), built by Brits Mike Dobson and David Gilday out of LEGO, unscrambled a puzzle in 3.25 seconds, becoming the fastest robot to solve a Rubiks Cube. However, in 2016, a new robot called Sub1 took the crown with a lightning-quick 0.887 seconds! The bot was built by Albert Beer of Germany.