Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Jumping movement
Patent
1986-02-12
1987-05-26
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Jumping movement
446487, A63F 908
Patent
active
046679618
ABSTRACT:
This invention extends and generalizes a family of N-pronged (N=3,4,5,6, . . . ) star-based right prism puzzles given in the references cited. Here the overall shapes of the puzzles and the shapes of their various component structures need no longer be right prisms. Futhermore, each prong can have 3L component structures where L is no longer restricted to be one (L=1). Each N-pronged puzzle is comprised of three layers of component structures, each group of component structures in a layer can rotate together around a principal axis of the puzzle. The component structures in a prong of a puzzle appear in sets, each set is comprised of three component structures which can rotate jointly relative to all other component structures in a plane parallel to the principal axis of the puzzle. Each surface of a puzzle is to be initially assigned a unique color or picture. 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 external designs.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4378116 (1983-03-01), Rubik
P. G. Continental Advertisement, Playthings, Aug. 1981, p. 42.
Abu-Shumays Ibrahim K.
Abu-Shumays Mary D.
Oechsle Anton O.
Ruano William J.
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