Soma cube Soma cube The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein in 1933 during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg. Its name is alleged to be derived from the fictitious drug "soma" consumed as a pastime by the establishment in Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel "Brave New World". Seven pieces made out of unit cubes must be assembled into a 3×3×3 cube. The pieces can also be used to make a variety of other 3D shapes. The pieces of the Soma cube consist of all possible combinations of three or four unit cubes, joined at
Dino Cube the limit by 2. The edge pieces cannot be flipped or misorientated (See "Solving"), therefore this is also not taken into account. The total number of possible combinations on the six-colour Dino Cube is therefore equal to: This number is low compared to the number of combinations of the Rubik's Cube (which has over 4.3×10 combinations) but still larger than many other puzzles in the Rubik's Cube family, notably the Pocket Cube (over 3.6 million combinations) and the Pyraminx (just over 930 thousand combinations, excluding rotations of the trivial tips). The number of possible of configurations, 19 958 400, is