43 quintillion positions is not chaos. It is a beautifully structured algebraic object. An illustrated, interactive primer.
Every edge sits in its home slot, but all are flipped (). Solvable in exactly 20 HTM moves, and no fewer — the lower bound nailed down first when Rokicki et al. proved God's number = 20 in 2010.
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