Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Jumping movement
Patent
1997-01-24
1998-03-10
Wong, Steven B.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Jumping movement
273157R, A63F 908
Patent
active
057252130
ABSTRACT:
An improvement is disclosed in a puzzle of the type including a rectangular base piece, a raised rectangular frame surrounding the sides of the base piece and defining therewith a recessed platform; and a plurality of rectangular flattened pieces which are positionable on said platform within said frame, and of dimensions and number when so positioned in mutual lateral contact as to provide a single rectangular void space among the pieces; the flattened pieces being slidable on the plane of the platform subject to lateral restraint by one another; and the object of the puzzle being to proceed from a designated starting configuration of the flattened pieces, and interchange the respective initial positions of designated of the flattened pieces by successive sliding movements of pieces into and out of the said void space.
According to the improvement, the flattened pieces are slidingly interengaged with adjacent such pieces, and the frame and pieces adjacent thereto are slidingly interengaged, whereby the said pieces may be interslid in the plane of said platform on which they are disposed in an effort to solve the puzzle, while maintaining integrity of the entire puzzle and precluding removal of the pieces from the plane. The frame and base piece are interlocked by structures which are manually actuatable by the user of the puzzle to enable separation and subsequent reassembly of the base piece and frame; whereby the user upon concluding that the movements of the flattened pieces to a then arrived at configuration will not enable solution of the puzzle, may disengage the base and frame, restore the flattened pieces to their starting configuration, and then reassemble the frame and base piece, thereby enabling restarting of his or her efforts to solve the puzzle.
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