The
Rubik's Cube is the original and best known of the three-dimensional
sequential move puzzles. There have been many virtual implementations of this puzzle in
software. It is a natural extension to create
sequential move puzzles in more than three dimensions. Although no such puzzle could ever be physically constructed, the rules of how they operate are quite rigorously defined mathematically and are analogous to the rules found in three-dimensional geometry. Hence, they can be simulated by software. As with the mechanical sequential move puzzles, there are records for solvers, although not yet the same degree of competitive organisation.