Skewb Diamond

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The Skewb Diamond
The Skewb Diamond

The Skewb Diamond is an octahedron-shaped puzzle similar to the Rubik's Cube. It has 14 movable pieces which can be rearranged in a total of 138,240 possible combinations. This puzzle is the dual polyhedron of the Skewb.

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The Skewb Diamond has 6 octahedral corner pieces and 8 triangular face centers. All pieces can move relative to each other. It is a deep-cut puzzle: its planes of rotation bisect it.

The Skewb Diamond, slightly twisted
The Skewb Diamond, slightly twisted

The purpose of the puzzle is to scramble its colors, and then restore it to its original solved state.

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Rubik's Cube Edit

Inventor
Ernő Rubik

Normal Rubik's Cube
2×2×2 | 3×3×3 | 4×4×4 | 5×5×5

Cubic variation
Square 1 | Skewb

Non-cubic variation
Megaminx | Pyraminx | Skewb Diamond | Dogic | Alexander's Star

Derivative
Rubik's Magic | Rubik's Clock | Rubik's Snake

Notable player of Rubik's Cube
Shotaro "Macky" Makisumi | Katsu | Jessica Fridrich | Tyson Mao |Bob Burton, Jr. | Lars Petrus | Edouard Chambon

Solutions
God's algorithm | Optimal solutions for Rubik's Cube

Mathematics
Rubik's Cube group


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