V-Cube 7 opposite sides of the solved Cube). The location of these cubes relative to one another can be altered by twisting the outer layers of the Cube 90°, 180° or 270°, but the location of the colored sides relative to one another in the completed state of the puzzle cannot be altered: it is fixed by the relative positions of the fixed center squares and the distribution of color combinations on edge and corner pieces. Currently, the V-Cube 7 is produced with white plastic as a base, with red opposite orange, blue opposite green, and yellow opposite black. Verdes and other
Minus Cube to fall into the space. The goal of the puzzle is to shuffle the cubes in such a way that on each side of the box, all of the faces of the small cubes are one color. There were two types of Minus Cubes manufactured: the so-called "Moscow Minus Cube" (red-white) and "Sverdlovsk Minus Cube" (blue-white), each named after the cities in which they were produced. They differed only in the orientation of one of the small cubes. Because of this difference there are 12 times as many "solved" arrangements for the Moscow Minus Cube, and thus the Sverdlovsk Minus