Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Jumping movement
Patent
1987-09-14
1989-03-07
Picard, Leo P.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Jumping movement
273 1E, A63F 906
Patent
active
048099791
ABSTRACT:
A puzzle has a cube housing and is solved by rotating the faces into a horizontal plane. Each face has multicolor lamps which are one color when the puzzle is solved. Each lamp may be red, green or yellow by producing red and green together. A microprocessor programmed to read switches in the cube to define the cube orientation and particularly the horizontal face. The processor has a table of algorithms which are assigned to edges between adjacent faces. Upon rotation of the cube about an edge in the horizontal plane, the microprocessor executes the assigned algorithm upon the previously existing display of that face. The microprocessor by referencing to the previous plane and the new plane automatically determines the rotational edge and the direction of rotation to enter and execute the appropriate algorithm. In doing so, the particular lamps are changed from an existing color to that defined by the algorithm. By multiple direction edge rotation, each of the faces are successively revised to a common color. The microprocessor can be programmed for various levels of difficulty by the change algorithms, and different given levels can be provided in automatic sequence. The lights are flashed for each solution of the puzzle, with different displays for the different levels. Face circuit boards for each face are physically supported by the leads. A logic board and a multiplex driver board are arranged within the face boards and the boards are mounted within the cube and firmly locked within the assembly by the interlocking cube walls.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4575087 (1986-03-01), Sinclair
McClune Glen E.
Skowronski Steven D.
Harrison Jessica J.
Picard Leo P.
Ultimate Creations, Inc.
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