Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Take-aparts and put-togethers
Patent
1978-07-24
1980-07-01
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Take-aparts and put-togethers
A63F 912
Patent
active
042103320
ABSTRACT:
A puzzle device includes a support structure and a plurality of polyhedrons, preferably cubes of equal size. The support structure, which may be a rectangular parallelepiped in shape, has a plurality of compartments located at its outer surface, such as at the four vertical sides, of the support structure. The compartments are adjacent one another and are open and unobstructed at the outer surface of the support structure to permit insertion into and removal of the cubes. On inserting the cubes into an appropriate compartment, the outer faces of the cubes together form at least a portion of each of the outer four vertical faces of the structure. Each of the cubes has a plurality of faces with different visual characteristics. By placing the cubes in an appropriate compartment and with the appropriate face outermost, the outer faces of the cubes together form a pre-determined visual effect, such as a picture or a pattern, at the outer surface of the structure. The pre-determined visual effect may constitute a single picture or the like which extends over the entire outer surface made up by the outer cube faces, or may be made into several distinct pictures of the like, such as one for each face or side of the support structure which is provided with compartments and cubes. The cubes can be rearranged in the support structure to give different visual effects. For example, using cubes, it is possible to provide, in a support structure having compartments on four vertical sides, four completely different visual arrangements and, in this embodiment, the visually depicted material on each cube may be unique with respect to all other cubes. If each vertical face has a distinct picture or pattern, a total of sixteen different visual effects, one for each face of the structure, can be provided by rearranging the individual cubes.
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