大头 发表于 2008-12-9 23:17:53

Uwe Mèffert和他的魔方们

Uwe Mèffert
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Uwe Mèffert's PyraminxUwe Mèffert (born in 28 November 1939) has manufactured and sold mechanical puzzles in the style of Rubik's Cube since the original Cube craze. His first design was the Pyraminx and others include the Megaminx, Skewb and Skewb Diamond. More recently he has licensed and rereleased designs from other manufacturers, such as Dogic.

In the 1970s Mèffert created some puzzles for his own amusement using pieces of balsa wood attached to a center ball by rubber bands. He didn't think anyone else would be interested in them, and put them away and forgot about them until Ernő Rubik's Rubik's Cube became a worldwide sensation in the 1980s. In 1981 Mèffert took his puzzles to a Japanese toymaker who agreed to market them. One of them, Pyraminx, sold more than 10 million pieces that year,and 90 million within three years. Since that time, Mèffert and his associates have created more than 100 3-D rotating mechanical puzzles.

Mèffert also created his own version of sudoku, the nine-number print puzzle which has gained such popularity in recent years. His puzzle consists of nine 3×3 grids, “representing total logic.” One has to place the numerals 1 to 9 in each horizontal and vertical row, each 3×3 box and the two major diagonals without repeating numbers. A “Chinese Magic Square”, consisting of the numbers 1–9, is hidden in a 3×3 grid somewhere in each puzzle. Adding any three numbers together in any direction always adds up to 15, providing additional challenge. Mèffert calls his version of the puzzle KOKONOTSU, a Japanese word meaning simply nine.

Uwe Meffert was born in Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains of Germany, on the 28th. of November 1939. Mèffert is the son of Otto Oscar Wilhelm Rudolph Mèffert and Emmy Johanna Frieda Von-Vorkauf. He was educated in Heidelberg, Germany; Geelong, Australia; and Bern, Switzerland. He has lived in Asia since the 1970s and currently resides in Hong Kong. He is married to Jing Meffert; they have three children: Michelle, Andrew and Ulrich and two grandchildren, Mikaela and Zachary.

whj466 发表于 2008-12-9 23:20:24

额。。看不懂啊    

溪风 发表于 2008-12-9 23:21:12

这么晚了!大头辛苦!

王思宇 发表于 2008-12-9 23:23:38

真的看不懂·得来点图啊··~

大头 发表于 2008-12-9 23:26:25

晕 ls几楼真快

Skewbhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Skewb.jpg/180px-Skewb.jpg

Skewb Diamond http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Skewbdiamond-2.jpg

Dogic http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Dogic12.jpg

Pyraminx http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Pyraminx_solved.jpg

Megaminx http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Megaminx6.jpg/180px-Megaminx6.jpg

Polunga 发表于 2008-12-9 23:34:01

唉,他们家一定好多好玩的魔方

Cielo 发表于 2008-12-10 09:16:49

看了最后一段才知道他住在香港……

魔鱼儿 发表于 2008-12-10 11:33:57

大头辛苦了,呵呵,翻译下好不

juventus66 发表于 2009-5-14 23:11:12

看来真得来个翻译了

yq_118 发表于 2009-5-16 16:47:37

英语不好,麻烦吧翻译的一遍贴过来,省的麻烦mf17
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