Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Jumping movement
Patent
1990-04-23
1991-10-29
Coven, Edward M.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Jumping movement
273DIG14, A63F 908
Patent
active
050609483
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus useful as a puzzle comprising a playing board having a square, flat playing surface, moveable chicklets of equal thickness and of equal square size, at least some of said chicklets decorated so as to form a picture on their appearance surfaces only when said puzzle is solved by moving said chicklets into a solution position, said chicklets being moveable in a horizontal plane along a flat surface within said board, said board having a retaining curb around the border of said flat playing surface and a transparent retaining means parallel to and spaced above said flat playing surface by slightly more than the thickness of said chicklets and adapted to retain said moveable chicklets in a playing area and to permit the player to see the appearance surface of all of said chicklets, said transparent retaining means having open areas through which the player may use a finger to move said chicklets, said open areas being only in positions other than the corner positions and the four central positions, the number of said moveable chicklets being six less than the number of spaces on said flat playing board, the four corner spaces on said flat playing board each having a non-moveable chicklet of equal size to said moveable chicklets so that the number of empty square spaces on said flat playing board equals two at all times.
REFERENCES:
patent: 535279 (1895-03-01), Eymann
patent: 4249738 (1981-02-01), Troeger
patent: 4620709 (1986-11-01), Palladino
Coven Edward M.
Pierce William M.
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