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From: Dale Newfield <din5w@cs.virginia.edu>
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Subject: Re: Skewb notes
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, _pink wrote:
> 	Meffert's puzzle ball series are the same mechanism but some are
> supergroup puzzles because of the center orientations. The Meffert
> Beachball is IMO a subgroup because of only having 4 colors.

I find it interesting to think that the internal mechanism for the skewb
and the puzzle balls are the same as for the pyraminx, but that the pieces
stuffed into the gaps make it a completely different puzzle.

-Dale