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I am using this as a test page for an article about the 'Rainbow Cube' (although it is not really a cube), which is a twisty logic puzzle.

The Rainbow Cube

The Rainbow Cube is a logic puzzle that, although being called a cube, is actually a cuboctahedron (every 'corner' lies between two triangular faces and two square faces). It has a total of 14 faces (6 square faces and 8 triangular ones). According to , The puzzle has only 12 moving pieces, but now there are also stationary centres in the triangular faces. There are two colour schemes. One has 14 colours, the other has only 7 colours with opposite faces the same colour. As the puzzle with the 7 colour scheme does not have any identical pieces, the two colour schemes give puzzles of the same difficulty.

The Number of Combinations
According to There are 12 moving pieces, which seemingly have 2 possible orientations giving at most 12!·212 positions. This limit is not reached because:

* The pieces cannot actually be flipped (212)

* The pieces must have an even permutation (2)

This leaves 12!/2 = 239,500,800 positions on the Rainbow Cube.