Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Jumping movement
Patent
1994-04-29
1995-06-27
Millin, Vincent
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Jumping movement
273146, A63F 908
Patent
active
054273757
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a three-dimensional playing device, comprising a cubic frame having nine windows per face of the cube arranged in three rows and three columns and 26 (3.times.9-1=26) dice arranged inside the cubic frame, movable in three dimensions and whose faces bear markings, in particular colours.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Three-dimensional translation toys are already known (WO 89/07968, publicated Sep. 8, 1989, or U.S. Pat. No. 3,845,959 respectively), in which 3.times.9-1=26 dice, held together by a frame, are movable in three dimensions. All the dice can be brought into 27 different spatial positions by means of these movements. It is the purpose of the game to achieve certain arrangements of the dice. The movement of the dice is made possible by a so-called void space. The void space can be moved to the inner position by means of a mechanism, so that the playing device takes the shape of a symmetrical body. In the case of the already known translation toys, the dice bear markings, e.g. the faces of the dice may have been provided with different colours. It has however not been stated exactly how these colours are to be provided.
A three-dimensional playing device (DE 4 106 826 A 1) comprising a cubic frame and 26 blocks is already known. These 26 blocks, each provided with a number or part of a picture, have been placed within the cubic frame and are movable within this cubic frame either by hand or by means of a magnetic block. Furthermore, all six sides of a die in this playing device have been provided with the same number, namely the numbers 1 to 27, with the number 14 missing. The dice should then be arranged spatially in such a way that so-called magic number squares are created in three planes, i.e. one definite position within this cubic frame has to be found for each of the 26 dice. This is also valid if the sides of the dice have been provided with a picture.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is however the purpose of the present invention to provide the sides of the dice of the playing device with markings of the kind mentioned above, especially with three different colours, in such a way that all the dice show the first colour when in the first position, all dice show the second colour when in the second position and all dice--with the exception of one die per frame side--show the third colour when in the third position.
This is achieved by means of the markings of the dice, specifically, six equal dice in each of which three sides sharing a first common corner each has a first colour thereon and another three sides sharing a second common corner each has a second colour thereon; two equal dice in each of which three sides sharing a common corner each has the first colour thereon, and, of their remaining sides, one side has the second colour thereon and two sides have a third colour thereon; two equal dice in each of which three sides sharing a common corner each has the second colour thereon, and of their remaining sides, one side has the first colour thereon and two sides have the third colour thereon; four equal dice in each of which three sides sharing a common corner each has the third colour thereon, and, of their remaining sides, two sides have the first colour thereon and one side has the second colour thereon; four equal dice in each of which three sides sharing a common corner each has the third colour thereon, and, of their remaining sides, one side has the first colour thereon and two sides have the second colour thereon; and each of the remaining eight dice has all three colours thereon, two sides of each colour.
The invention has been described in relation to dice. It is however not definitely necessary to use and compose dice in the way described above; individual elements having other shapes are also conceivable, such as those having a rhomboid-shaped base or a base in the shape of any other geometrical figure.
In the case of the three-dimensional playing device according to the invention, certain arrangements of the dice, e.g. when they have been provided wi
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Millin Vincent
Pierce William M.
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