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Orchid
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A puzzle with multiple origins, nineteen different moves in three different sets.

This puzzle got its name because it remembered the inventor to look like the flower copter and because, often though to be only tropical, orchids grow on every continent and therefore, have multiple origins, just like this puzzle.
The inventor conceived the idea from a concept David Pitcher posted about in 2011, but didn't find a solution for.
Grégoire decided against a classic mechanism and went the easy way, by making a helicopter cube and some trivial corner turns as well as a rail system for the petals that can go from one puzzle to the next.
The puzzle has seventeen turns in three sets:
- Eight CurvyCopter-turn at the edges of the white side under the white side.
- Five circular moves, one of them on the yellow side.
- Four corner moves on the yellow side.
The first eight turns allow for jumbling which shouldn't surprise as they are designed after the Curvy Copter.

Edge length: 60 mm
Height: 90 mm
Weight: 205 grams

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