Dino Cube first mass-produced version had pictures of dinosaurs depicted on each piece, which led to the adoption of the puzzle's current name of "Dino Cube". It is not known what the puzzle had been called before this dinosaur version was introduced. The later versions, however, adopted the practice of using standard single-colour stickers, in common with most other twisty puzzles. The Dino Cube is a twisty puzzle in the shape of a cube. It consists of 12 movable pieces, all of which are located on the edges of the cube. The puzzle can be thought of as twisting around its corners:
Centered cube number Centered cube number A centered cube number is a centered figurate number that counts the number of points in a three-dimensional pattern formed by a point surrounded by concentric cubical layers of points, with "i" points on the square faces of the "i"-th layer. Equivalently, it is the number of points in a body-centered cubic pattern within a cube that has "n" + 1 points along each of its edges. The first few centered cube numbers are The centered cube number for a pattern with "n" concentric layers around the central point is given by the formula The same number