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| - There are many variations of this puzzle with the megaminx at its core such as the "starminx II" or the "kilominx", as well as a variety of shape moifications such as the "hexaminx" and "reuleaux-minx". Higher layered variations include the Gigaminx, which has two rotating layers on every face, the Teraminx, which has three and the Petaminx, which has four.
- The 2x2 version is called the Kilominx, the 4x4 the Master Kilominx, and the 5x5 the Gigaminx. The fastest time for this puzzle as well as many others can be found in the link below.
- The 6-color Megaminx comes with an additional challenge to the 12-colour puzzle which is not immediately obvious. Its edge pieces come in visually identical pairs, because of the duplicated colors of opposite faces. However, although visually indistinguishable, they are nevertheless mathematically bound in a parity relationship. This property is absent in the 12-color Megaminx, because all its edges are visually distinct, and it would be immediately obvious that there is another pair of swapped edges besides the pair one is working with.
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| - There are many variations of this puzzle with the megaminx at its core such as the "starminx II" or the "kilominx", as well as a variety of shape moifications such as the "hexaminx" and "reuleaux-minx". Higher layered variations include the Gigaminx, which has two rotating layers on every face, the Teraminx, which has three and the Petaminx, which has four.
- The 6-color Megaminx comes with an additional challenge to the 12-colour puzzle which is not immediately obvious. Its edge pieces come in visually identical pairs, because of the duplicated colors of opposite faces. However, although visually indistinguishable, they are nevertheless mathematically bound in a parity relationship. In any legal position (reachable from the solved state without disassembling the puzzle), there is always an even number of swapped pairs of edges. However, since swaps may be between visually indistinct edges, one may find that having solved almost the entire puzzle, one is left with a pair of swapped (distinct) edges that seems to defy all attempts to exchange them. The solution is to swap a single pair of 'identical' edges to reverse the parity, and then restore the rest of the puzzle. This property is absent in the 12-color Megaminx, because all its edges are visually distinct, and it would be immediately obvious that there is another pair of swapped edges besides the pair one is working with. Besides solving a Megaminx the regular way, patterns can be made on it just like a Rubik's Cube. Examples of these include a star, checkerboard, and pentagon in a pentagon patterns.
- The 2x2 version is called the Kilominx, the 4x4 the Master Kilominx, and the 5x5 the Gigaminx. The fastest time for this puzzle as well as many others can be found in the link below.
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