JP2580444Y2 - Puzzle block toys - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a puzzle block toy in which a predetermined word is completed by combining a plurality of blocks each displaying various characters on its surface.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a specific pattern is expressed by combining a building toy in which characters, figures, patterns, etc. are displayed on each side of a large number of cubes or rectangular parallelepiped blocks, or a block in which a fragment of a pattern is drawn on each side. Such jigsaw puzzle blocks are known.

Recently, various educational toys have been developed which are useful for learning letters and words while playing a puzzle game. As this type of toy, for example, characters, figures, and the like of a motif common to each surface of a plurality of blocks forming one unit are divided and represented, and various characters, figures, and the like are represented by combinations of the surfaces. There is a puzzle block toy as described above (Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 55-158786).
Furthermore, a crossword puzzle device that combines a large number of blocks each depicting one kana character on each surface of a cube, arranges them on a game board divided into a grid, and completes words corresponding to hint sentences. (Hei 3-41477)
And so on.

[0004]

[Purpose of the Invention] The purpose of the puzzle block toy according to claim 1 is to enable children, especially adults learning a foreign language, to easily play, and to use their reasoning and creativity to enjoy puzzle combinations. Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel puzzle block toy that can naturally learn kana characters, words in Japanese or other foreign languages, spelling, and the like.

[0005] In addition, a puzzle block toy according to a second aspect is intended to provide a puzzle block toy in which a combined puzzle can be more easily enjoyed.

A third aspect of the present invention is to provide a puzzle block toy in which the fun as a combined puzzle is further increased.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is to achieve the above-mentioned object, and its contents will be described below using embodiments shown in the drawings.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a puzzle block toy capable of expressing a predetermined word by combining respective surfaces of a plurality of blocks in which characters are displayed on respective surfaces of a rectangular parallelepiped. , A pair of square faces facing each other, and adjacent to the square faces,
In addition, it is composed of four surfaces of a rectangle including a short side formed by one side of the square and a long side substantially twice as long as the short side.
One character is displayed on each of the square faces, and two characters are displayed on each of the rectangular faces. By combining the faces of the block vertically and horizontally, the vertical direction is displayed. Alternatively, various predetermined words can be completed in the horizontal direction.

A puzzle block toy according to a second aspect is characterized in that, in addition to the features of the first aspect, a frame body on which the blocks can be arranged such that the upper surfaces of the combined blocks are on the same plane. It is further characterized by having.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the features described in the first aspect, the six surfaces of each block are colored in different colors, and the same color is applied to each block. By combining the surfaces, various predetermined words are completed.

[0011]

Therefore, according to the puzzle block toy of the first aspect, the two characters displayed on the rectangular surface of a certain block are used as one hint to exert reasoning and creativity, and the surface of another block is used. By appropriately combining the letters, predetermined words can be completed one after another.

Further, according to the puzzle block toy of the second aspect, it is possible to make it easy to see the characters and the completed words displayed on the combined surfaces.

Further, according to the puzzle block toy of the present invention, a predetermined word is completed by combining the color assigned to each block as one hint and combining the same color surface with the selected color. be able to.

[0014]

FIG. 1 shows blocks 1 and 2 used in the puzzle block toy of the present invention. The blocks 1 and 2 comprise a pair of square faces 3 facing each other,
It has a shape in which two cubes are joined, each having four rectangular faces 4 adjacent to the face 3. That is, the surface 4 is twice as large as the surface 3 such that one side of the square of the surface 3 is a short side and the length of the short side is a when the length of the short side is a. Consists of a rectangle. Blocks 1 and 2 are formed of various suitable materials, such as, for example, plastic, wood, paper, and the like.

On each of the square faces 3 of the blocks 1 and 2, one character of hiragana or katakana is displayed, and on each of the rectangular faces 4, two characters of hiragana or katakana are displayed vertically or horizontally. Have been. 2 represented on rectangular surface 4
If words are used as hints, words can be completed with more reasoning and creativity than simply combining individual characters one by one. For example, if the rectangular surface of block 1 and the rectangular surface of block 2 and the square of block 2 are combined vertically, for example, a three-letter word "tokei" meaning clock is completed.
By combining the rectangular "fox" face of block 2 and the rectangular "done" face of block 1 vertically and horizontally, the character "fox" representing a fox is completed. In addition, the hiragana here,
It is assumed that the characters in katakana also include the long sound code "-". Also, an English word can be expressed by using an alphabet instead of a kana character, or the word can be expressed by using other various foreign language characters.

FIG. 2 shows an example in which ten such blocks are used as a set, and each block is composed of three characters of katakana.
An example of a combination in which each face is arranged so that the names of two fruits are sequentially displayed in a column is shown. 6 of each block
Since characters are displayed on the surfaces, it is possible to create six combinations in one set of blocks. In the example of FIG. 2, five words having a common motif of fruit were selected, but for other combinations, words of different motifs such as names of vegetables, animals, tools, vehicles or flowers were selected. When each face is configured as above, the puzzle can be further enjoyed, and the effect as an educational toy such as cultivation of intelligence and learning of characters and words increases, which is convenient. Further, if each surface of the block is colored with a different color for each different motif, a word of a common motif can be completed by combining the surfaces of the same color. Thereby, the fun of the color matching is added, and the fun of the combination puzzle can be further increased.

FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of a combination in which the names of animals are used as a common motif. In this embodiment, 16 blocks are used as one set, and 4
Six words composed of letters are arranged in tandem in order to complete the word. By increasing the number of planes to be combined in this way, it is also possible to configure so as to express a word having five, six or more characters. Further, in the embodiment of FIGS. 2 and 3, each word is arranged vertically,
It is also possible to arrange them side by side, and this is convenient particularly in the case of English words using alphabets.

[0018] The puzzle block toy of the present invention is such that, when actually playing, the upward face of the combined block is always on the same plane, even if it is a square face 3 or a rectangular face 4. Is desirable. FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of a frame in which the blocks can be arranged in such a manner. This frame 5 is, as shown in FIG.
It is used to complete five words consisting of three characters using 0 blocks, and inside a rectangular outer frame 6 forming a box, a thin partition frame 7 extending vertically and horizontally,
8 are provided. Due to the partition frames 7 and 8, fifteen squares 9 each consisting of a square having a side length of a and having a depth a are formed in the frame body 5 by five vertical rows and three horizontal rows. Formed. Such partition frames 7, 8 can be formed, for example, of a thin metal plate, a plastic plate or paper.

As shown in FIG.
Is displayed upward, the block 2 is oriented vertically and fitted in a square 9 at a predetermined position. On the other hand, when the rectangular surface 4 is to be displayed upward, the block 1 is placed sideways and placed at a predetermined position on the partition frame 8.
At this time, the block 1 has its central portion supported only in a straight line by the upper end of the partition frame 8, but a number of blocks are arranged adjacent to each other in the frame body 5 so that the side surfaces contact each other. In addition, since the outer frame 6 is formed to be slightly higher than the partition frames 7 and 8, the outer frame 6 is stably arranged without losing balance and being substantially inclined.

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of the frame. In the frame 10 of the second embodiment, the inside of the outer frame 11 is
4 by means of the partition frames 12, 13 having a certain width d.
Square 1 with the length of one side a as in the embodiment 1
It is divided into four. Block 15 has a rectangular surface 16
When the image is to be displayed upward, as shown in FIG. 6, it is placed so that its center and both ends are supported by the partition frame 12. Therefore, even if other blocks are not adjacent to each other, they can be stably arranged. If the square face 17 is to be displayed upward, the block 18 may be fitted in the vertical direction 14 similarly.

With this configuration, the length of the longer side of the rectangle of the surface 16 of each block is 2a + 2d, and each block is slightly longer than 2a of the above-described embodiment by two widths of the partition frame. However, the width d of the partition frames 12, 13
Is smaller than a, the rectangular surface 16 is approximately twice as large as the square surface 17, so that blocks 15 and 18 in FIG. 6 are substantially the same as blocks 1 and 2 in FIG. Are the same. Further, in this case, the depth h of 14 is a
+ 2d, which is slightly deeper than 9 in FIG.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above in detail.
Changes can be made and implemented. For example, the case where the combination of words is expressed only in one direction of a column or a row as in the embodiment of FIGS. 2 and 3 is illustrated, but in another embodiment, the combination of words is expressed in a vertical direction like a crossword puzzle. And the word can be completed simultaneously in the horizontal direction. In this case, a blank surface area may be provided by partially deleting characters from some surfaces of the block. Also,
It is apparent to those skilled in the art that the frame on which the blocks are arranged may have various structures other than the above embodiment. For example, the bottom surface of each square may be vertically displaceable by a spring means or the like, and the square surface may be arranged upward by inserting a block so as to push down the bottom surface.

[0023]

[Effects of the Invention] The present invention is configured as described above, and has the following effects.

According to the puzzle block toy of the present invention, instead of simply combining individual characters one by one, two characters displayed on the rectangular surface of the block are replaced with one character.
Since the direction of the combination of puzzles is obtained as one hint, the fun of the combination puzzle increases. For this reason, especially infants can easily play, can effectively perform intelligence training to exercise reasoning and creativity, and have fun and naturally enjoy kana characters, Japanese or other foreign words, spelling. And so on. It can also be used for language learning at the elementary stage when learning a foreign language.

In addition to the above, according to the puzzle block toy according to the second aspect, the character displayed on each surface of the combined block is easy to see, so that the practicality is improved.
The combination puzzle can be made more enjoyable.

Furthermore, according to the puzzle block toy of the third aspect, it is possible to form a combination of words by changing the motif for each color attached to each block, and furthermore, the fun of color matching using the color as a hint. By adding, the fun as a combination puzzle toy can be further increased, and it can be useful for fostering intelligence.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a block used in the puzzle block toy of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing an embodiment of a combination of each surface of a block.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing another embodiment of the combination of each surface of the block.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a frame on which blocks are placed.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the frame.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a state where blocks are arranged on the frame body of FIG. 5;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, 2 blocks 3, 4 sides 5 Frame 6 Outer frame 7, 8 Partition frame 9 Frame 10 Frame 11 Outer frame 12, 13 Partition frame 14 Frame 15 Block 16, 17 Surface 18 blocks

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Claims (3)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A puzzle block toy comprising a plurality of blocks in which characters are displayed on each side of a rectangular parallelepiped and capable of expressing a predetermined word by combining the respective sides of the blocks, wherein the rectangular parallelepipeds are A rectangle 4 consisting of a pair of square faces facing each other, a short side adjacent to the square face and having one side of the square, and a long side approximately twice as long as the short side.
One face is displayed on each of the square faces,
Also, two characters are displayed on each surface of the rectangle, and by combining each surface of the block vertically and horizontally, various predetermined words are completed in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction. A puzzle block toy characterized by: 2. The puzzle block toy according to claim 1, further comprising a frame on which the blocks can be arranged such that the upper surfaces of the combined blocks are on the same plane. 3. The six faces of each block are colored in different colors, and the predetermined word is completed by combining the faces of the block with the same color. The puzzle block toy according to claim 1, wherein: