Shifting movement

A mosaic block construction toy having a base member formed with a endless groove and a plurality of passageways connected in communication with the endless groove, and having a plurality of construction blocks moveably mounted within the groove and/or passageways. Each block has formed on the surface...     

A motor skill game which comprises a game board having a plurality of apertures therein. A plurality of pegs are provided and sized for insertion into the apertures with the number of pegs equal to the number of apertures. Each peg is provided with some form of sequenced indicia, as for example, numerical...     

A railroad teeter switch game having parallel channels interconnected in a game board. The channels representing a railroad main track and railroad return tracks. Roller balls are used to represent a railroad engine, a railroad caboose, and other railroad cars and are rolled back and forth in the tracks...     

A manipulative puzzle game consisting of a rectangular parallelepiped box having a transparent front wall. A plurality of identical cubes are disposed within the box. At least one plane face of each cube bears a visually distinguishing feature. The objective of the game is to arrange the cubes by manipulating...     

A slide puzzle having a number of flat slide-pieces which are slidably retained in a space formed in a plate by means of interengaging grooves and flanges. The upper surfaces of the plate and slide-pieces fall into the same plane and the space in the plate is dimensioned such that at least one portion...     

The apparatus is made up of a board having four parellel columns of equal numbers of holes extending therethrough. A plurality of mutually distinguishable flexible pegs may be received in the holes. The pegs have indicium on both ends. The indicia on a given end of all of the pegs form a series, the...     

A device for displaying indicia is provided comprising: (a) at least one cover member having at least one visual display means on at least one surface thereof; and (b) at least one display member slidably movable by gravity with respect to at least one of said cover members within a predetermined area...     

A gameboard, having a recessed playing area, with a series of pivoted shapes, each being a portion of a geometrical shape, secured in spaced relation in the recessed area, and a freely movable, mating piece for each geometrical shape, provides a maze having the object to move randomly placed free pieces...     

A slide puzzle having a number of flat slide-pieces which are slidably retained in a space formed in a plate by means of interengaging grooves and flanges. The upper surfaces of the plate and slide-pieces fall into the same plane and the space in the plate is dimensioned such that at least one portion...     

A table game is provided in which a pair of players alternate in sliding flat game pieces onto a game board, between the top surface of the game board and a transparent cover. The game board is divided into a matrix of channels along which the game pieces slide and a game piece entering a completely...     

An electrical board game device is described in which a plurality of slidable elements are mounted on a housing for relative sliding movement with respect to each of the other elements on the housing. Each element has a uniquely arranged pattern of electrical contacts in circuit with a light emitting...     

A two-sided puzzle having a puzzle comprising puzzle members on each side thereof. One or more puzzle members on one side are each coupled to a puzzle member on the opposite side. The puzzle members are arranged or oriented on each side such that matching or assembling the puzzle members on one side...     

A system and method of interlocking objects by the use of locking and blocking pins that longitudinally move through channels when an external directional force field is longitudinally aligned with and applied to the channels inside of which the pins are located. The channels are self-contained within...     

An improved three-dimensional combination toy may comprise a central part, a plurality of guide canopies installed above the central part to form guide spaces, (the guide canopies being laterally spaced apart from one another such that the spaces between the edges of adjacent guide canopies define guide...     

A toy track system having an electro-optical sensing device in the roadway senses the passage and identity of a plurality of individual cars on that roadway and provides the sensed information to a microprocessor based operator control panel. The operator control panel provides visual information to...     

A device for displaying indicia is provided comprising: (a) at least one cover member having at least one visual display means on at least one surface thereof; and (b) at least one display member slidably movable by gravity with respect to at least one of said cover members within a predetermined area...     

A puzzle game device with which one tries to solve a puzzle by shifting puzzle elements. The puzzle game device includes a rotary indicator having puzzle holes, a shunting body having at least one shunting hole and puzzle elements. The rotary indicator is rotatable correlatively to the shunting body....     

A spatial logical toy is formed from a total of eighteen toy elements, out of which two sets of eight identical toy elements two connecting elements are provided. The elements of the two sets have cam members with hollows with spherical convex or concave surfaces in-between. The elements are connected...     

A spatial logical toy in form of a regular geometrical solid, the toy-elements of which are assembled so that halves of the logical toy taken along any axis can be rotated in any direction of any of the spatial axes of the body in relation to the other half. The toy comprises a total of eight toy-elements,...     

The invention relates to a cylindrical logical toy to be used individually or for competition in a group. It contains elements provided with distinguishing marks arranged in nests formed on the cylindrical mantle, in the rings of the cylinder. Arrangement of the elements enables the player to rearrange...     

A game comprises a closed container having a transparent top wall and a bottom wall formed with a number of holes therethrough, there being a plurality of differently-colored balls disposed within the container and manipulatable by the player's finger tips to seat in different holes in the container...     

A puzzle toy is provided in which a game may be played to achieve a desired combination of colors by shifting several puzzle elements arranged checkerwise in the lengthwise and the breadthwise directions. The puzzle toy includes a plurality of polarizing plates fixed to a case and individual polarizing...     

A puzzle device similar to that sold under the registered trademark RUBIK'S CUBE includes a hub with six orthogonally related square sockets, six mutually spaced circular retainers having inner and outer faces lying in spherical planes spaced from and concentric with the hub and coupled to respective...     

A three-dimensional puzzle game having six sides comprising a cube wherein each side includes nine squares forming three columns intersecting three rows, any of the columns and rows being rotatable about an orthogonal axis of the cube with a single individual such rotation being accomplishable at a time,...     

The invention concerns a shiftable element logical puzzle in the form of a cylindrical body comprised of an assembly of sector shaped cylinder forming elements, said elements forming two identical cylinder halves in the form of upper and lower tiers of six elements each, three of said elements in each...     

Puzzles, including both two dimensional and three dimensional versions, are comprised of movable segmented segments on a base. In various embodiments the base is a sphere. The segmented sections form geometric figures and each geometric figure has a common segmented section with another geometric figure....     

A puzzle in the form of a multi-colored regular solid is disclosed. Plates corresponding to the adjacent faces of the regular solid are disposed on said faces and divided into a plurality of triangles of different colors, and which triangles have adjacent edges. The plates are coupled in pairs and the...     

The present invention is a puzzle game which employs a plurality of moveable members, each of which bears at least one indicium, slideably mounted over rail-like means formed on a sectionalized base. One section of the base is the display section whereto the moveable members are moved in order to form...     

The present invention relates to a puzzle cube comprising a cube body and the sides of which are formed by cube elements each of them forming part of three cube sections arranged for rotation relative to the remaining portion of the cube body about the center axis of the cube body respectively offset...     

A shiftable block puzzle comprising a board defining a bottom wall having a flat top surface. A plurality of blocks of different sizes are confined for lateral movement on the flat surface. A restricted area is defined on the flat top surface for reception thereon of a single primary one of the blocks...     

The present invention concerns a tridimensional puzzle comprising elements movable by gravity within a volume limited by the walls of a box. It comprises, more specifically, on the one hand, n identical parallelepipedic elements and, on the other hand, a transparent parallelepipedic box the sides of...     

A puzzle cube comprising an outer framework and a plurality of small cubes, preferably forming nine squares on each side, wherein the center of the large cube has an open sided cage as a substitute for the 27th cube, said cage being of a size adapted to receive a cube from the center of any of the six...     

A geometric game which includes markers and a playing unit. The playing unit has a multi-faced geometric configuration, such as a cube, with each face having a number of facets corresponding to facets on the other faces. The markers each carry one of a variety of indicia, such as letters of the alphabet,...     

The invention comprises a puzzle with the exterior shape of a sphere. The sphere comprises an even plurality of pieces formed by planes having in common a line joining two diametrically opposite poles of the sphere. The pieces are rotatably fastened together at the planes such that any two hemispheres,...     

A mechanical puzzle in the shape of a regular octahedron is provided, comprising a plurality of component octahedra and component tetrahedra. Such components are retained as a unit. The entire set of component parts which constitute a single face is adapted to be rotated 120 degrees about an axis perpendicular...     

The tabular puzzle, shown in FIG. 5, is a puzzle comprising nine square tablets arranged in a three-by-three array and inclosed in a mechanism in such a way that any group of four tablets meeting at a common corner point may be rotated about said point by any multiple of 90.degree.. The exposed face...     

A manipulatable game which includes a spherical support member which has a plurality of circular tracks extending about the surface thereof which intersect each other at right angles. Movable members are carried on the tracks for being rotated about the spherical support member and shifted from one track...     

An oblique twistable 3-dimensional puzzle consists of an assemblage of parts where the organization of these parts is based on a guiding polyhedron which is an imagined oblique polyhedron. The guiding polyhedron is subdivided into pieces, with one center piece, and one piece for each face, edge, and...     

A board game apparatus comprises a pair of flat plain plates in spaced parallel configuration between which are mounted a number of counters in rows and columns defining a surface pattern. Flexible laminate strips adjacent the edges of the pattern define the extreme positions of the counters and maintain...     

A new puzzle is disclosed having a game board with a plurality of playing paths arranged in a grid pattern that connects a first location to a second location on the board. Certain portions of the playing paths are structurally keyed, such portions forming a contiguous, keyed playing path connecting...     

A logical toy for the arrangement in any desired pattern of numerals, figures or other symbols printed on independent game pieces. It contains one or more lower pushers and upper pushers movable perpendicularly thereto in grooves formed on a bearing plate. The number of lower and upper pushers and the...     

A three-dimensional interchange linkage which permits any of a number of devices abounding a core to be laterally interchanged. A preferred form of the linkage is found in an icosahedral puzzle in which groups of five separate pieces can be rotated to re-order and re-arrange the pieces in the manner...     

A game comprising a first device for establishing a pattern of different indicia, including nine colored faces, and a second device having a plurality of square colored tiles of the same colors and greater than the number of colored faces. The tiles fit in a tray having an area greater than all the tiles...     

A puzzle corresponding to a regular icosahedron in which the twenty faces of the icosahedron are detached yet movable, the puzzle including a spherical core; twelve mushroom-shaped holding pins extending from the core individually at locations corresponding to icosahedral vertex points and having a head...     

The eleven-plane cubical puzzle, shown in FIG. 1, is a puzzle in the shape of a cube whose twenty-four exposed pieces may be permuted by rotations of groups of said pieces about any of seven axes passing through the vertices and the centers of the faces of said cube.

A three-dimensional sliding element puzzle has a spherical support with circular tracks receiving legs and feet of slidable outer shell members defining either a spherical octahedron, cuboctahedron, or icosidodecahedron.

A game comprises a base member divided into a plurality of horizontally-extending vertically-aligned zones representing levels of a building structure open at their opposite ends, a plurality of playing pieces in the form of colored blocks adapted to be received in the levels, and a pair of conveyors...     

A game apparatus has a housing which includes a stationary element located on the housing and at least one movable element located on the housing in association with the stationary element. The stationary element includes members dividing the stationary element into a plurality of sections. The movable...     

This disclosure is concerned with a puzzle type game involving an equilateral triangle assembly of hexagonal-form sub-assemblies of side-by-side components, wherein adjacent sub-assemblies share two common components and are held together in assembly but adapted for rotation of each sub-assembly around...     

An amusement device consisting of a manipulative puzzle having a plurality of hollow prism-shaped pieces rotatably connected by swivel joints. Each swivel joint comprises a base centrally formed in a wall of one prism and inserted through a hole located in a confronting wall of an adjacent prism. The...     

A puzzle comprising a plurality of continuously open, tubular channels which intersect at a common medial point. The channels radiate outwardly from the intersecting medial point, each along a curve having a 360.degree. radius, and have open, distal ends aligned in a common horizontal plane. A plurality...     

An amusement device for selectively interchanging or transferring coded pieces from one storage element to a second adjacent storage element is disclosed. The two storage elements are connected to each other for relative rotation. The coded pieces are transferred by aligning one or more storage space...     

A manipulative cube puzzle having a hollow box structure of parallelepipedon form and containing a predetermined number of cubes at least one less than the capacity of said box structure in at least one tier, the construction of said box structure being such that any cube therein may be slidably positioned...     

A puzzle comprising a box having an open face and a base wall relative to which a plurality of support elements carrying tiles provided with identification means are movable, against the action of resilient biassing means. Stop means retain the uppermost tiles in correspondence with the open face of...     

A hand-manipulatable three-dimensional puzzle includes a body in the shape of an octahedron and constituted of a plurality of elements interconnected together to permit rotation of one-half of the body with respect to the other half along each of three orthogonal planes symmetrically passing through...     

A polyhedral puzzle made up of a central body element, and intermediate and external body elements and characterized by the intermediate elements and the external elements being constructed and arranged to move in planet carriers and planet gears fashion respectively relative one to another in the polyhedral...     

A geometric device or puzzle in the form of a great dodecahedron is provided having a plurality of surface elements movable, without disassembly, about the surface of the puzzle. The puzzle can be visualized as being made up of twelve regular pentagons each with a five-pointed star pyramid centered thereon,...     

A multi-cube puzzle characterized by a generally cubical array of individual cubes wherein the individual cubes are arranged in a single angular layer as viewed from each face of the cube, excepting for one small cube thereby to permit unlimited one square at a time movement of any small cube adjacent...     

A three dimensional puzzle or toy, of the type sold under the registered trademark RUBIK'S CUBE, in which eight outer bodies or blocks are rotated four at a time about any one of three axes, so that different shapes may be presented in different combinations of said outer bodies. The outer bodies present...     

A puzzle having elements which are rotatable on a spherical core in groupings of eight in increments of forty-five degrees along any one of three mutually perpendicular zones, the puzzle including a spherical core; eight tongued-on-each-edge equilateral triangular tiles of spherical curvature whose sides...     

A game-puzzle comprising four polygonal (e.g., triangular prism-shaped) members and a plurality of pairs of colored indicia members. One of the prism-shaped members serves as a central "stationary element"; each of the other triangular prism-shaped members is rotatably fastened to one of the faces of...     

A two dimensional puzzle is disclosed which includes a plurality of interlocking movable pieces carrying indicia and disposed on a planar board. The pieces remain interlocked while being moved independently in at least two directions across the board. The arrangement is such that the pieces can be moved...     

A game comprising a three-dimensional support having intersecting, separate, endless courses, and the courses are filled with game pieces that can be moved through a point of intersection between two courses and either be transferred from one course to another or remain on their original course.

A multi-faceted solid geometrical puzzle toy includes a generally spherical base member and a plurality of tile members secured to the exterior of the base member, each tile member comprising one facet of the solid. In one embodiment, a plurality of regular pentagonal members are secured to the sphere...     

A puzzle device includes a hub with six orthogonally related square sockets, six mutually spaced circular retainers having inner and outer faces lying in spherical planes spaced from and concentric with the hub and coupled to respective sockets by square shanks, seven triangular slide members slidably...     

A puzzle comprises a holder (1) defining a field of movement for rectangular pieces (5,6,7) which are slidable within said holder, the problem being to effect a sequence of displacements which will bring a key-piece (7) to a position at the opposite end of the holder (1). The key-piece can then be further...     

A number puzzle is provided wherein a series of nine tiles, numbered 1-9 in seriatim are arranged in a 3.times.3 relationship and slidably disposed in one recess of a housing, with the housing having an auxiliary recess to accommodate one of the tiles so as to slidably move the other tiles. The object...     

A movable mosaic formed by intersecting defined circular members each of which is rotatable about its center point and each of which comprises a plurality of discrete pieces formed by intersecting arcs of said circular members, said intersecting arcs having a radial dimension equal to the radial dimension...     

A puzzle comprises at least two relatively rotatable members in contact with one another and pivoted together about an axis normal to their contact plane. Exterior surfaces of the members are formed with tracks having their entry and exit points disposed equi-angularly about said axis and equidistant...     

A three-dimensional sliding element puzzle has a spherical support with circular tracks receiving legs and feet of slidable outer shell members defining either a spherical octahedron, cuboctahedron, or icosidodecahedron.

A three dimensional regular polyhedron based logical puzzle having a plurality of exposed faces with design indicia printed thereon includes a plurality of first and second pieces defined by at least four non-orthogonal planes extending through the puzzle. Each of the planes is parallel to at least a...     

A combinatorial device especially adopted as a teaching aid in the study of finite, non-Abelian permutation groups. The invention structurally utilizes a central core member having a multiplicity of supporting members extending outwardly from the core member. Further, a multiplicity of face pieces are...     

This invention introduces a family of N-pronged (N=3,4,5,6, . . . ) star-based right prism puzzles which generalizes puzzles of the "Rubik's" Cube and "Pyraminx" tetrahedron class and of the class of puzzles given in the reference cited. Main features and examples of the puzzles are briefly described....     

This invention introduces several new Polyhedral Puzzles based on variations and extensions to the 2.times.2.times.2 cube. Spherical and shell analogue puzzles are also disclosed. These puzzles are of "Rubik's" Cube and "Pyraminx" tetrahedron class (Rubik's Cube is a registered trademark of Ideal Toy...     

A movable block geometrical puzzle having eight core pieces and having rotatable pyramid pieces connected to plane surfaces formed by surfaces of at least two of the core pieces. The block puzzle employs the 2.times.2.times.2 configuration for the core blocks and exhibits the same movements of the 2.times.2.times.2...     

A three dimensional toy puzzle of the type wherein the pieces of the puzzle which are formed in layers can be slidably moved about the surface of an inner fastening means. The puzzle has an outer configuration of a crystal with each layer or face thereof having a particular color or indicia to indicate...     

There is disclosed a board game and a method of playing the same. The game board used in the game comprises a playing surface with a first plurality of spaced apart pathways on the surface of the game board, and a second plurality of spaced apart pathways on the game board intersecting the first plurality...     

A movable surface global puzzle includes a magnetic core and a concentric shell spaced from and surrounding the core, the shell is divided into component sections as defined by planes passing through a center of the core, and is magnetically held to the core. A plurality of ball bearings interposed between...     

A pyramid-shaped puzzle including a plurality of maze-panels intermediate the vertex and base of the pyramid, each maze-panel having a plurality of holes through it. One or more balls is dropped through an opening in the vertex and the puzzle is manipulated by a player to guide the ball to a designated...     

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...     

Two distinct dodecahedron cubic puzzles, one a Rhombic Dodecahedron Puzzle having twelve diamond faces and the other a Regular Dodecahedron Puzzle having twelve pentagon faces. The ideas involved can be readily applied to other puzzles having newer shapes such as the rhombic triacontahedron. The distinguishing...     

A board game has sixteen playing pieces, arranged on a playing surface, in four rows and four columns. Each playing piece has a mark which is made visible by selectively orientating the piece. Players take turns orientating pieces. A point is scored each time four marks are arranged in a pattern corresponding...     

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....     

An amusement device for use in providing a manipulative puzzle, word games, games of chance, scoring games, or the like. Upper and lower parallel plates are planarly rotatable about a vertical axis. A plurality of cylinder assemblies is carried by the plates disposed on the outer periphery such that...     

A puzzle is provided with a frame having a generally rectangular opening therein. The rectangular opening has a major dimension of four times a selected unit of measurement, and a minor dimension of three times the selected unit of measurement. Movably disposed within the rectangular opening are four...     

A puzzle in which a plurality of object members can be rotatably manipulated in groups of four, the groups of four overlapping so that a single object member can be moved from one of the groups to another. Each of the object members has an upper surface which may be given a particular color or image...     

A multilevel rotary maze comprising a series of stacked maze elements which are rotatable relative to one another. Each of the elements has a series of apertures, at least one of the apertures passing therethrough, and at least a portion of the apertures define a serpentine path throughout the maze which...     

A puzzle board comprises a board having a recess opening at the top side thereof, a plate mounted in the recess and having a plurality of playing piece bearing regions arranged in adjacent rows, playing pieces superimposed slideably on the regions except for one of the regions being left empty to allow...     

A manually operable mechanical puzzle including four members, each having separable first and second end body portions. Each body portion has an end connector attached to an outer end for pivotal attachment to one of the other members to form a continuous loop comprised of the four members. The first...     

A multi-component puzzle comprised of ring-forming components which are rotatable about selected orthogonally related axes to move individual components into various relationships. The components are co-acting and constrained to move about each other without the need for a central framework. The absence...     

The puzzle has a single plane base on which are mounted movable puzzle pieces. The pieces are restrained in a fixed series of grooves and can be arranged in a desired pattern. The pieces are scrambled in a random arrangement to be then moved back to the desired pattern.

A puzzle of the type having an array of movable tiles enclosed and supported by a frame structure includes circuitry for producing sound to identify each of the tiles. Each tile is formed with contact terminals formed on a surface that confronts a support surface of the frame. The support surface defines...     

A puzzle is provided with a frame having a generally rectangular opening therein. The rectangular opening has a major dimension of four times a selected unit of measurement, and a minor dimension of three times the selected unit of measurement. Movably disposed within the rectangular opening are four...     

A keyboard including a plurality of key switches and a plurality of keys mounted slidably on the keyboard over the key switches, each key overlying one of the key switches and the top of each key provided with a marking, upon each key being depressed into engagement with the underlying key switch, the...     

A game article has a central spherical main body with a plurality of grooves which form a plurality of lands therebetween, a plurality of auxiliary members radially spaced from the main body, and a plurality of carriers each supporting a respective auxiliary member and having a guiding portion guidingly...     

A multi-faceted toy having eight heptahedrons that are anchored to a central sphere; four of the heptahedrons are each attached directly to the central sphere with internal axles that have one end anchored securely in the central sphere; the other four heptahedrons are mounted on axles which are anchored...     

A hand-manipulatable three-dimensional device for generating and displaying groups of symbol combinations selected in pseudo-random sequence, having relatively movable faces, each of the faces bearing one of the two distinguishing symbols. A stand, on which the unit may be mounted, permits reading of...     

A combination toy in the form of a spherical body is proposed, which is subdivided into great circle and meridian sectional planes. On the outer spherical body surface is provided a plurality of sliding parts operatively connected with holding and connecting members. The toy essentially comprises an...     

A three dimensional sliding element puzzle having a surface that is spherical in shape. The sphere is divided into longitudinal segments and latitudinal bands of surface elements. The puzzle is solved by rearranging the surface elements. The surface elements are rearranged by latitudinally rotating latitudinal...     

A puzzle cube with movable sliders provides games with different levels of difficulty. At least one of the surfaces of the cubelets forming an exterior surface part of the base cube is not provided with a slider, thus defining at least one blank. This allows during the game the moving of anyone of the...