I don’t know exactly how many hours of productivity will be lost to the 3D, interactive Rubik’s cube that appeared overnight as Google’s latest doodle, but assuredly a lot. Cracking the code is no easy task, with today’s date May 19th commemorating the 519 quintillion ways you could possibly fail to produce the solution to the color-twisting, cubic puzzle. Admittedly, a small portion of this writer’s own formative years were spent vainly searching for the correct combination of twists. And as Google has reminded us, it still boggles the mind. So we decided to do the next best thing to actually solving one with our own minds and rounded up some guides. 

Happy twisting!