Floppy Cube turning - i.e. an edge piece may only twist if there is at least one corner piece adjacent to it. The mass-produced version does not feature this mechanism, which allows edge pieces to twist "on their own" - causing the puzzle to be considerably easier. The four edge pieces now have 4 orientations each on the Super Floppy Cube (compared to the Floppy Cube's 2); therefore, the edges can now be orientated in 4 different ways. However, the edges still cannot be permutated. There are now 12 different locations that the four corner pieces could be located in (up from
The Carnelian Cube humor, the less said the better". Frederik Pohl, writing in "Super Science Stories", praised the authors as having "produced some of the funniest fantasies ever to see print." Noting that ""The Carnelian Cube", almost alone among fantasy books, has never been published in magazine form" he "wonders how the magazines missed it." "Thrilling Wonder Stories" praised the novel as "earthy, talkative, [and] frequently witty," saying "The authors have given full range to a pair of highly fertile imaginations and the reader does not suffer thereby." "Fantasy Review"'s Kemp McDonald faulted the novel as scattershot and plotless, saying that "Characters and