I am a regular three-dimensional polyhedron. All of my faces are congruent squares, exactly three edges converge at every single vertex, and I possess 12 edges in total. What shape am I?
A cube (or regular hexahedron)
A cube has 6 square faces, 8 vertices where 3 edges meet, and 12 straight edges.
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