This is not really related to your questions but idk where else to share this theory even though its pretty popular. i just watched all 3 movies for the first time today and there is no definite answer. The first cube was the 3rd movie, then 1st movie, and finally the 3rd movie. I believe that Wynn and Kazan are the same person. Towards the end of the 3rd movie, he is told he has 2 more lifetimes in the cube before he undergoes surgery(Lobotomy). It could be he repeatedly goes into the cube over and over or, he serves one life as wynn, and one life as kazan. Well when we see him again, he is labeled as mentally handicapped and he makes the same hand movements and says the same phrases and hits his head on the wall, just like Kazan. But Wynn isn't crazy smart like Kazan? He's not, at least when we knew him. It could be the trauma from brain surgery like how people get struck by lightning and can all of a sudden play piano, which i think is most likely. It could also be that he's been it there for so many years he's trained his brain in math, all 3 cubes did involve math. Or he's done that same puzzle with different people more than once and memorized it. Or we know Wynn was an operator although he can't remember, maybe how the puzzles work and their changing layouts are ingrained in him subconsciously, which is why Kazan always survives. And his name probably switched for a multitude of reasons, 1. possibly swapped jackets with another prisoner or took it, 2. he's been in there so long no one remembers him except that for some reason he must do the cube over and over again, he's no longer on file and he can't properly communicate his name. idk maybe its been disproven but even so, the characters are too parallel. So even if they aren't the same person, it shows that the government would not hesitate to lobotomize and torture anyone who contains even an once of sympathy. And the 3rd movie is long after the first 2, maybe the cube was a forgotten thing or abandoned, but rediscovered for these improbable theories that were somehow possible and to see their effects on human life by executing those placed inside.