But there is still a puzzle.
This is a puzzle game involving moving rocks to guide a flow of energy round a mystic garden – complete with a suitably woozy soundtrack.
He's been an important piece of the puzzle in Calgary.
The first Rubik's Cube competitions began in the early 1980s and were largely a promotional affair that vanished with the collapse of the initial fad for the puzzle.
After about a month, he could resolve the puzzle at will.
A less urgent medical puzzle appears to have been solved once and for all by a team of Canadian researchers.
The whole experience of trying to puzzle my way through this is a reminder of the extent to which cable services and the way they are structured and priced are still stuck in the 1990s.
"The talker's voice is just one part of the puzzle," Pardo says.
When he set the puzzle down and stopped the timer, just seconds later, the audience erupted, nearly drowning out the announcer: "Feliks with a 7.95!" Feliks Zemdegs had been here before.
And he certainly couldn't have imagined that, one day, his puzzle would be at the center of a competitive sport in which the top performers can re-solve it in less time than it takes to read this sentence aloud.
Eventually, Rubik began to develop sequences of moves that would allow him to rearrange a few pieces of the puzzle at a time.
