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The objects studied in this paper are the \(K3\) surfaces generated by smooth (2,2,2) forms in \({\mathbb P}^1 \times {\mathbb P}^1 \times {\mathbb P}^1\). Let \(V\) be a generic such surface (in a sense that is made precise). A consequence of this genericity, due to Wang, is that the Picard number for \(V\) is 3. In this paper it is shown that an equivalent condition is that \(V\) contains no curves with negative self-intersection. A careful description is made of the rational curves with zero self-intersection, including an estimate for the number of such curves in terms of the divisor class on \(V\) of the fibres of the natural projections of \(V \subset {\mathbb P}^1 \times {\mathbb P}^1 \times {\mathbb P}^1\) to \({\mathbb P}^1\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0910.00037].