Rubik's Magic

Another blast from my past for my blip tonight that came home with me at the weekend.

I never did like the Rubik's cube, would get too frustrated and pull off the stickers to cheat but the Rubik's Magic I found much more fun!
And yes I can still make it from the three seperate rings into three linked rings.

For those who don't remember it the Rubik's Magic it is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik and first manufactured by Matchbox in the mid-1980s.

The puzzle consists of 8 black square tiles arranged in a 2 × 4 rectangle; diagonal grooves on the tiles hold wires that connect them, allowing them to be folded onto each other and unfolded again in two perpendicular directions (assuming that no other connections restrict the movement) in a manner similar to a Jacob's Ladder toy. The front side of the puzzle shows, in the initial state, three separate, rainbow-coloured rings; the back side consists of a scrambled picture of three interconnected rings. The goal of the game is to fold the puzzle into a heart-like shape and unscramble the picture on the back side, thus interconnecting the rings.