Regular polyhedron puzzles

Details Regular polyhedron puzzles Regular polyhedron puzzles

1986-10-23

1987-11-17

Oechsle, Anton O.

Amusement devices: games

Puzzles

Jumping movement

A63F 908

Patent

active

047069562

ABSTRACT:
This invention introduces several variations of Regular Polyhedron Puzzles which are improvements, generalizations and extensions to "Rubik's" Cube, "Pyraminx" tetrahedron and the class of puzzles given in the reference cited. The preferred embodiments include octahedron and icosahedron cubic puzzles. The distinguishing features and examples of the puzzles are briefly described. Each of the puzzles is comprised of component pieces which are joined and held together by an appropriate means to form a desired overall regular polyhedron shape having at least eight (8) plane faces. The external surfaces of each puzzle are to be assigned a unique combination of colors or pictures. The mechanism of motion makes it possible to rotate the individual component pieces of a puzzle in groups around lines joining the puzzle center and the puzzle vertices. Various possible rotations (twists and turns) result in mixing up the surface configurations. The object and the challenge is to restore the various surfaces of a puzzle into their original form, or to perform twists and turns that would result in alternate interesting designs.

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patent: 4451039 (1984-05-01), Hewlett, Jr.
patent: 4453715 (1984-06-01), Halpern
patent: 4474377 (1984-10-01), Ashley
patent: 4558866 (1985-12-01), Alford

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