Uwe Mèffert
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 Uwe Mèffert facts

• His first design was the Pyraminx and others include the Megaminx, Skewb and Skewb Diamond
• More recently he has licensed and re-released 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 did not 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 popular nine-number print puzzle
• 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