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Octosaurus (eight-coloured Dino)
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An eight colour Dino cube

This is a simple sticker mod on a standard Dino cube. The Steinmetz Dino (Please refer to the separate entry) has the same layout on a non cubic solid.
It was created at the same time as the Edgeosaurus sticker mod and as part of a desire to fully explore the stickering combinations as listed below.

Octosaurus offers no additional complexity over the Sudoku Dino in that there is no 'inside-out' solution but the solution is easier to visualise. Complexity is added to Dino cubes by reducing the number of identical pieces, adding chirality (left/right-handed and inside-out-ness) and making the solution harder to visualise. Image 5 shows an example of a state with flipped chirality. The explorer ranks the various Dino colour schemes in increasing complexity as follows:

2 colour dino (original)
2 colour dino (simplified 4 colour scheme in 2 colours) *
3 colour dino (simplified Edgeosaurus) *
4 colour dino (solid corners solution)
6 colour dino
4 colour dino (harlequin solution)
8 colour dino (Octosaurus)
Edgeosaurus
Sudoku dino (Sudokusaurus)
1 colour dino (Monosaurus - almost impossible with all faces being the same colour) *
* indicates combinations not [yet] submitted to the museum.

Finally, the explorer wrestled over whether this should be categorised as Octosaurus or Octasaurus, considered the Greek vs Latin etymology, and then just picked one.

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Contributors

Thank you to the following people for their assistance in helping collect the information on this page: Mark Lodge.

Collections

This puzzle can be found in collections of these members:

Markube: Mark's Kubes


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