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From: David Singmaster Computing & Maths South Bank Univ <david.singmaster@sbu.ac.uk>
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Subject: Rubik's Magic

	Peter Beck says one can make these with any number of panels which is
a multiple of four.  Actual any even number is possible.  I have several
example of  2 x 3.  Actually, there are two examples - the third is the
one with six hexagons.
	Both the  2 x 3 examples were promotional items for magazines, one
in Italy and one in France.  I happened to be in France when the French 
example was attached to a magazine called Super in Jun 1988.  I bought about
a dozen example, but I have no spares left!
	The  2 x 2  was marketed in four forms and one could assemble all
four into a bigger pattern.  However, I've also got three Hungarian versions.
One has religious symbols and comes in a folder with a picture of the Pope
on the front, apparently commemorating the Pope's visit to Hungary or
Austria.
DAVID SINGMASTER,  Professor of Mathematics and Metagrobologist
School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics
Southbank University, London, SE1 0AA, UK.
Tel: 0171-815 7411;  fax: 0171-815 7499; 
email:  zingmast  or  David.Singmaster  @sbu.ac.uk