RU3095U1 - PUZZLE - Google Patents

Abstract

A puzzle containing many identical flat rigid polygons with information symbols applied on their sides and relatively rotationally connected to each other in a ribbon, characterized in that each of the two information sides of each polygon is made as a separate first and second element, respectively, one of the planes of the first element has protrusions, the second element - fixing holes corresponding to the protrusions, and between the elements there is a tape made of thin sheet common to all polygons of flexible material.

Description

PUZZLE

The invention relates to games, in particular, to mathematical puzzles with elements that are movable with respect to each other.

A well-known game containing many flat triangles, the surfaces of which are marked with informational notation. At the ends, the triangles are interconnected by corresponding grooves and protrusions into a single flat figure / I /. During the game, the triangles rectilinearly move in a common plane relative to each other without disengaging them, transforming one plane figure into another. A disadvantage of the known game lies in its limited gaming capabilities, since the design of attaching the triangles to each other allows you to get only a limited number of easily predicted flat figures.

There is a well-known class of mathematical puzzles based on the principle of flexcars. The simplest of these puzzles can be attributed to a game made in the form of a tape of sheet material divided by fold lines into many triangles / 2 / (in different flexagons, polygons can have a different number of angles).

Flexagon-based puzzle games have significantly wider gaming capabilities because they can have very complex algorithms for performing a game task. A distinctive feature of these puzzles is that the movement of one polygon relative to another is performed not in their common plane, but in space by their relative rotation along the fold lines separating adjacent polygons.

The disadvantage of flexaton games in general and the well-known puzzle game in particular lies in the design of fold lines. So, in the simplest case, the fold lines are only applied to the paper tape, and therefore the toy as a whole is extremely short-lived. Therefore, for flex-car games of a high order of complexity, the structure is destroyed before the game task is completed, and the time spent on the manufacture of the toy (only for one application of information symbols) is not justified, which sharply reduces the game interest in it.

To increase the durability of the toy, it is most acceptable to make game polygons in the form of individual elements from plastic with their subsequent connection into a ribbon, as, for example, this is done in a toy / I /, in which the movable connection between the triangles is not only durable in operation, but also technologically advanced. in manufacture. However, since flexogons have a completely different principle of moving polygons relative to each other, the known design of their connection with each other is not suitable for flexogons.

The task was set for the invention: to create a mathematical puzzle based on flexagons in which combining game information elements-polygons with each other would be structurally and technologically possible simpler and would allow long-term operation of the toy without its destruction.

The problem is solved by the fact that a mathematical puzzle is proposed that contains many flat identical rigid polygons with information symbols applied on their sides and relatively rotationally connected to each other in a ribbon.

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What is new in the invention is that each of the two information sides of each polygon is made in the form of a separate first and second elements, respectively, one of the planes of the first element has protrusions, the second element has fixing holes corresponding to the protrusions, and a tape made of common polygons from sheet flexible material.

The proposed constructive implementation of the puzzle allows not only to simplify and cheapen the manufacture of puzzle toys, but also, if necessary, can not be easily restored in artisanal conditions.

Figure 1 shows a visual image of the puzzle, made in the form of a Flexotube Stone; figure 2 is a cross section of a flexotube, partial scan.

The Flexotube of Stone is a closed tape of four flat squares A, B, C, D, interconnected by I fold lines. Each of the squares, in turn, is also divided diagonally by fold lines 2, as a result of which the toy ultimately consists of many flat identical rigid triangles 3 (in the general case, for other flexagons, it consists of polygons). Since each of the triangles can be rotated along the fold line relatively adjacent to it, the spatial tube can easily be transformed into various flat multilayer geometric figures, the visible surfaces of which can acquire different information images, due to different information symbols applied to each side of each polygon included in a toy.

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Stone turns inside out, which is the ultimate gaming challenge.

It can be seen from this that the operation of multiple turns of triangles along fold lines in different directions relative to each other imposes stringent requirements on performance and durability to constructive design of fold lines.

The design shown in FIG. 2 fulfills these requirements. According to the invention, each flat rigid triangle 3 (FIG. 1) is made in the form of the first 4 and second 5 elements (FIG. 2). The first element 4 on one of its planes has projections b, and the second element 5 has fixing holes 7 corresponding to the projections. In figure 2, the holes 7 are shown through, however, they can also be blind. Between elements 4 and 5, a tape 8 is made of flexible sheet material. This tape is common to all triangles of 3 yals, which is the same self formed by the triangles of squares A, B, C, D (Fig. 1). The most technologically advanced is the manufacture of elements 4 and 5 from hard plastic, and tape 8 from polyethylene film.

The toy is assembled as follows. Separately, a rectangular tape 8 and elements 4 and 5 are prepared, the latter in shape and size correspond to triangles 3 in figure 1. Then, on the one hand, element 4 is applied to the tape 8 (FIG. 2), and on the other hand, its corresponding element 5, after which the elements 4 and 5 are compressed. In this case, the protrusions 6 push the tape 8 and are fixed in the holes 7, for example, due to friction (the tape 8 may or may not have corresponding holes, be single-layer, multi-layer, single or composed of separate parallel strips, etc.). The ends of the tape, closed in a ring, are fixed butt or lap in one - 4-Л /% 0 № $ № // - 2.

nom from the squares A, Bg B, D between the elements 4 and 5 forming it.

The proposed design makes it possible to obtain not only a reliable long-term movable connection between game triangles, but also, if necessary, easily restore a toy, for which it is enough to introduce a knife blade between elements 4 and 5, for example, t, separate the elements and, replacing the tape 8 in whole or in part, reconnect elements 4 and 5 with each other as described above.

As indicated, the claimed invention can be used in any flexagon, the number of corners of the game polygon is not limited to three.

Information sources:

1.Auto St. No. II92845, M.C. A 63 9/08, 1983;

2.Auto St. No. 1454490, M.C. A 63 9/06, 1985 (prototype).

Authors-gshg MB.M. Iznairov

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A.N. Vasin

Claims (1)

A puzzle containing many identical flat rigid polygons with information symbols applied on their sides and relatively rotationally connected to each other in a ribbon, characterized in that each of the two information sides of each polygon is made as a separate first and second element, respectively, one of the planes of the first element has protrusions, the second element has fixing holes corresponding to the protrusions, and a ribbon of thin-sheeted common for all polygons is enclosed between the elements of flexible material.