Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Jumping movement
Patent
1992-02-07
1993-12-07
Millin, V.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Jumping movement
A63F 908
Patent
active
052677311
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a solitaire game.
PRIOR ART
There are known several solitaire games whose principle is to move a body comprising movable individual elements from a home position by moving the individual elements which are differently marked randomly to a disordered condition followed by the attempt to restore the initial condition.
The German utility model G 83 07 792 discloses, for example, a disk puzzle comprising two overlapping circular disks arranged in a frame on a base plate. Considered as such, each circular disk comprises six disk parts each in the form of an equilateral triangle. Between each two adjacent disk parts there is inserted a bar with two diametrically opposing bars being secured to a central turning knob and serving upon turning of the turning knob as a dog for the rest of the movable bars and disk parts. Since these dog bars extend in the same plane as the rest of the bars and the disk parts, a mutual meshing of the dogs in certain turning positions may occur resulting in a blocking of the game such that the game complexity is not very high.
The German laid open patent application 31 35 444 discloses a solitaire game whose basic body is a sphere in the exterior surface of which three circular guiding grooves intersecting each other are incised. The surface of the sphere is subdivided by the predetermined guiding grooves into eight triangular sphere segments colored with eight different colors. Square type sliding elements are inserted into these guiding grooves the colors of which correspond to those of the associated spheric segment. Turning the sliding elements being in home position several times in various directions results in a disordered condition with the task for the player to restore the initial position determined by the coloration. Since the guiding elements and, correspondingly, the portions of the sliding elements engaging them extend in two directions in an arc-type form manufacturing thereof is expensive since otherwise the movement of the sliding stones will cause considerable problems. Furthermore, in order to achieve a maximum game complexity the diameter of the sphere must be relatively large which complicates accommodation thereof in a pocket of a jacket or pant.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, it is the object of the invention to suggest a solitaire game having a high complexity with a simple compact design. This object is solved by the features of the present invention.
According to the invention, all semicircular disks may be brought into similar alignment for transporting the game, the game may be put into any pocket. By pivoting the semicircular disks, each semicircular disk may be placed into one plane with any of the two adjacent semicircular disks such that the quadrant segments provided at the exterior periphery of the semicircular disks may be placed onto the one or other adjacent semicircular disk. Thus any quadrant segment may be placed on any desired semicircular disk by shifting the rest of the quadrant disks. The home position of the game is determined by the fact that a corresponding color is assigned to each surface of the semicircular disk and the surfaces of the two quadrant segments associated to the corresponding semicircular disk.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The invention will be explained below referring to the drawing. There are shown in
FIG. 1 a plan view of an embodiment of a solitaire game;
FIG. 2 a front view of a semicircular disk;
FIG. 3 a front view of the solitaire game; and
FIG. 4 a longitudinal view of the solitaire game.
MODE OF CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
As may be seen from FIGS. 1 and 3, the solitaire game essentially comprises a basic body 1 in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped whose two opposing end surfaces 1a are of generally square form, and four semicircular disks 2 arranged adjacent the four longitudinal edges 1c of body 1. Each semicircular disk is pivotally mounted to body 1 to permit 90.degree. pivoting movement, see FIG. 3. Thus, the rotational axes of the semicircular disks 2 ext
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Millin V.
Wong Steven B.
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