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One interesting variation of the Scorpius Puzzle has six puzzle pieces that are identical but non-symmetrical. As shown in Fig. 139, this is accomplished by starting with the symmetrical Scorpius piece and exchanging one arm with its mating half, hence the name. This puzzle has two distinctly different mechanical solutions. If four different colors are used for the arms, there is one way of coloring them such that the two different mechanical solutions produce two different symmetrical coloring patterns, corresponding to the first two shown for the Scorpius Puzzle.
Fig. 139
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