Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Jumping movement
Patent
1982-06-14
1984-02-21
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Jumping movement
A63F 908
Patent
active
044325487
ABSTRACT:
A puzzle cube comprising an outer framework and a plurality of small cubes, preferably forming nine squares on each side, wherein the center of the large cube has an open sided cage as a substitute for the 27th cube, said cage being of a size adapted to receive a cube from the center of any of the six sides of the puzzle cube, biasing means for expelling from the cage any cube placed in the cage and an outer frame for retaining all the smaller cubes in larger cubic configuration. The movement of any one of the center small cubes from any side into the cage, prepares the biasing means for expelling the small cube toward that side. The cube thus moved into the cage is retained in position in the cage by the movement of one of the edge cubes into the space previously occupied by the center cube of the side, thereby creating an additional space at the center of an edge and permitting other cubes, such as a corner cube or the center cube of an adjacent face to be moved into said space. A succession of such moves produces a movement of the cubes wherein indicia patterns or colors on the cubes may be arranged in acceptable or predetermined sequence. No internal frame supports the center cubes on any of the sides. No interlocking of the cubes is required.
REFERENCES:
patent: 427392 (1890-05-01), Bradshaw
patent: 785665 (1905-03-01), Coe
patent: 3845959 (1974-11-01), Kosarek
"Zauber Pyramide" by Tom Werneck, copyright 1981, Published in Austria 1981 by Wilhelm Heyne Verlac, Munich, pp. 176-198.
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