Nine-Colour Cube Nine-Colour Cube The Nine-Colour Cube ("see below" for other names) is a cubic twisty puzzle. It was invented in 2005 by Milan Vodicka and mass-produced by Meffert's seven years later. Mechanically, the puzzle is identical to the Rubik's Cube; however, unlike the Rubik's Cube, which only has 6 different colours, the Nine-Colour Cube has 9 colours, with the individual pieces having one colour each. The puzzle is known under several different names. Milan Vodicka, the inventor, initially gave it the name "Nine-Colour Scramble Cube", which reflected the key feature and the "de facto" objective of the puzzle. This name was
Floppy Cube the Pocket Cube (with over 3.6 million combinations). As explained above, the total number of possible configurations of the Floppy Cube is 192, which is sufficiently small to allow a computer search for optimal solutions. The table below summarises the result of such a search, stating the number "p" of positions that require "n" twists to solve the puzzle: The above table shows that the puzzle is always at most 8 twists away from its solved state (i.e. its God's Number is 8). Similarly to the total number of combinations, this number is very low compared to the Rubik's Cube