DE29620201U1 - Combinatorial puzzle - Google Patents

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Frank Sommeriatle _# .. ^Konfibinatojischss Patience game

Description:
Combinatorial puzzle game.

Puzzle games are known in many different versions, as are children's games where a simple overall picture can be put together by completing picture fragments with (also round) building blocks.

The innovation creates a puzzle variant in which the position of the image fragments in relation to their center is already predetermined (rotated) and does not have to be discovered through trial and error or intelligence, as is the case with conventional puzzle games.

For example, by giving the image fragments a flat, circular shape and embedding them in a circular recess in the game board, these image fragments can be rotated until the goal of the game, namely the logical assembly into the required overall image, is achieved.

This allows for a simpler puzzle variant for small children, but also results in completely new game sequences due to the more complex moves for "older" players in conjunction with the possibility of turning the pieces, if the overall picture, i.e. the goal of the game, is not a conventionally constructed and well-known image from everyday life, but an abstract picture that can only be created according to certain rules. When creating a picture, deliberate misleading elements (similar to a labyrinth) can be incorporated if individual picture segments initially appear to fit together in other combinations.

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Fig. 1 shows an example of a solitaire game in the above-described version:

In a board (game board) made of cardboard or plastic (1) there are 24 holes in the form of a vertical 4x6 matrix, whereby these holes are so wide that they almost touch each other, but leave enough residual mass of the game board behind to ensure sufficient static stability of the board.

Below this perforated plate, an unperforated plate is placed at some distance, if necessary.

A thinner plate made of cardboard or plastic (2) is attached so that a thin gap (3) remains between the upper and lower plate.

Flat, round game pieces fit into the holes in the upper plate. These pieces can be rotated in the hole (around the axis a-a) and protrude slightly from the perforated plate due to their greater thickness for easier handling.

The tops of the game pieces are printed with either a straight (4), right-angled curved (5) or t-shaped branched (6) track-shaped marking.

An exchangeable assembly instruction fits into the gap between the upper and lower plate, e.g. in the form of a printed sheet of cardboard or paper. This assembly instruction makes it easier to fill the holes with a predetermined arrangement of game pieces (which have one of the three different markings mentioned), whereby the game pieces do not yet produce the overall picture to be achieved in terms of their direction of rotation.

In order to allow for several initial configurations, also with varying levels of difficulty, more than the 24 game pieces required for the game board are available.

The aim of the game is to put together a track system (pipe system) as defined in the instructions by rotating the game pieces without swapping their positions.

A rule for the arrangement shown in Fig.1 could be, for example, that the resulting track system must consist of an uninterrupted, multiply curved track, have two branches and two further ends that must lead out of the game board.

Fig.2 shows a top view of a possible game piece arrangement at the start of the game and after the game goal has been achieved.

Frank Sommerlatte .. Combinatorial Patience Game

If the game board described above is made twice, two players can also take part by creating a track system that is as difficult as possible (within a level of difficulty to be determined), distorting it by rotating the game pieces and, after exchanging ideas with their playing partner, competing to see how quickly they can find a solution.

Claims (2)

Frank Sommerlatte &bgr; · · #K»mbinatoriscrj|s Patience Game Protection Claims: 1.) Combinatorial puzzle game, consisting of a flat game board (1-2) and several flat picture pieces placed next to each other, which can be put together like a puzzle to form a complete picture, characterized, - that said preferably round parts of the picture can be rotated individually around their axis (a-a) perpendicular to the game board during the game, thus enabling a pictorially logical combination of individual parts of the picture to form an overall picture, - that at the start of the game the said picture parts are in a fixed position with respect to their axis of rotation in relation to the game board, i.e. they should not be exchanged for one another, and - that said parts of the picture are rotated with respect to their axis at the start of the game, i.e. they are arranged in a rotational position that is not yet aligned in the final position. 2.) Combinatorial puzzle game according to claim 1, characterized in that - that said parts of the picture are each printed with a symbol in the form of a (for example straight, curved or t-shaped) track element (4-6) or otherwise spatially marked, in such a way that the arrangement of these symbols in the horizontal directions of the game board, i.e. through a certain rotation, results in an uninterrupted, unbranched or branched overall track on the game board and, - that a different rotation of individual parts of the image and thus of their symbols results in a different overall trajectory.