Trends and Schmends

Mere congratulations to Singapore for winning the bid, first.
Anyway out with old news. I promised myself to post on this once is see at least 20 people in school with a rubik's cube and finally it happened. Yes, everyone is into this cube thing, turning and twisting it, trying to solve the Rubik's Cube. I say this is old fad! Let's all play something new. Besides, it doesn't take skill nor logic to solve this puzzle. Most people just search for the solutions on the internet on how to solve a face! What kind of challenge is that? Let's all welcome the new trend!





That's right! PADDLEBALL! Now this takes some skill. It seems easy to bounce a ball up and down a paddle tied to a string. Exactly. Out of a few other candidates i've considered like Tetris and Pac-man and Tic-Tac-Toe, this stands out the most. I compared the two items according to the FAD system (fun level, age of trend and difficulty) a min level of 1 and a max number of 5.

Rubik's Cube Factor Paddleball
3 Fun 4
4 Age 2
2 Diff 4

9 TOTAL 10

As you can see, the Paddleball is obviously more 'fun' than a cube. I mean, how can anything reminding you of Maths be fun? The Rubik's does have the edge on the trend here, being around much longer than the Paddleball. You don't see people carrying the Paddleball in Singapore but there are kids in other countries with Paddleballs. Lastly, the Rubik's cube would have gotten a 5 for 'Difficulty', if not for the great Internet. With the internet, algorithms are created to solve the 'puzzle'. In contrast to the Paddleball, it has no exact solution, and it all depends on how talented you are in Paddleball.

Thus, you can see that the Paddleball edges out the normal 'cube' in the FAD rating system. The whosesick cube was so YESTERDAY. Let's all take delight in paddling a ball on the Paddleball now!

Merely.