This application claims priority from Taiwan Patent Application No. 10607052, filed on May 17, 2017 at Taiwan Intellectual Property Office, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety for all purposes.
The present creation is related to a packing puzzle. This piece of work in particular is a packing puzzle which has various shapes. In addition, the small pieces of the puzzle can be assembled into a hexagonal prism by different configurations and may be fitted into a puzzle frame or a slightly deformed frame structure.
A puzzle game is a game which played by arranging or putting puzzle pieces or puzzle blocks with specific shapes into a specific frame, fills up the frame or forms a specific appearance. The puzzle game may improve the cognitive recognition of images, build up the sense of space, and train logical thinking, focus, and patience of a user. When the users are a school age children, the puzzle game may further induce their thinking abilities and improve their mathematical ability.
In prior puzzle games, most of them correspond to a single frame or a single solution, such as Tan-gram, Bermuda Triangle and round blocks. The difficulty is usually determined by the number of pieces in the puzzles. In terms of the puzzle pieces, most of the puzzle games are composed of the same unit components such as rectangular, triangular, cylindrical and spherical unit components. However, even though a puzzle game has not only one solution, the final structures and the solution varieties of the prior puzzle games are limited because of the limitation of their design. Similarly, the improvement of the thinking training is also limited.
Hence, the present creation designs a hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle to solve the aforementioned problems, improve the defects of the prior techniques and enhance industry implementations of the related creations.
In view of the aforementioned problems of the prior arts, the object of the present creation is providing a hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle to improve the lack of variety of the structure of puzzle games and the corresponding solutions.
According to the present invention, a hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle is provided, which comprises: a plurality of puzzles which are able to be pieced into a hexagonal prism, wherein each of the plurality of puzzles is an integrated puzzle or a puzzle being able to be disassembled composed of a plurality of unit components, the shapes of the plurality of the unit components are selected from a group consisting of a first unit component and a second unit component, the first unit component and the second unit component are formed by division along a section formed by three vertices of a triangular prism, the first unit component has a volume larger than that of the second unit component, and the height of the triangular prism is equal to half of the side length of the triangular prism.
Preferably, the plurality of the puzzles comprises 18 different shapes, and the number of the plurality of puzzles is 21.
Preferably, the plurality of the puzzles comprising 18 different shapes comprises: a first puzzle composed of two pieces of the second unit components; a second puzzle composed of two pieces of the first unit components; a third puzzle composed of one piece of the first unit component and one piece of second unit component; a fourth puzzle composed of one piece of the first unit component and one piece of the second unit component, wherein a configuration of the plurality of unit components of the fourth puzzle is different from a configuration of the third puzzle; a fifth puzzle composed of one piece of the first unit component and one piece of the second unit component, wherein a configuration of the plurality of unit components of the fifth puzzle is different from that of the third puzzle and the fourth puzzle; a sixth puzzle composed of one piece of the first unit component and one piece of the second unit component, wherein a configuration of the plurality of unit components of the sixth puzzle is different from that of the third puzzle, the fourth puzzle and the fifth puzzle; a seventh puzzle composed of one piece of the first unit component and two pieces of the second unit components; a eighth puzzle composed of two pieces of the first unit components and one piece of the second unit component; a ninth puzzle composed of two pieces of the third puzzles; a tenth puzzle composed of two pieces of the third puzzles, wherein a configuration of the two pieces of the third puzzles of the tenth puzzle is different from the configuration that of the ninth puzzle; an eleventh puzzle composed of two pieces of the fourth puzzles; a twelfth puzzle composed of one piece of the fifth puzzle and one piece of the sixth puzzle; a thirteenth puzzle composed of two pieces of the fourth puzzles, wherein a configuration of the two pieces of the fourth puzzle of the thirteenth puzzle is different from that of the eleventh puzzle; a fourteenth puzzle composed of one piece of the first unit component, one piece of the second unit component and one piece of the third puzzle; a fifteenth puzzle composed of two pieces of the second unit component and one pieces of the third puzzle; a sixteenth puzzle composed of two pieces of the first unit components and one third puzzle; a seventeenth puzzle composed on two pieces of the second unit components and two piece of the third puzzles; and a eighteenth puzzle composed of two pieces of the first unit components and two pieces of the third puzzles.
Preferably, the numbers of the seventh puzzle, the eighth puzzle and the fourteenth puzzle are 2.
Preferably, the plurality of the puzzle comprises a plurality of arrangements for piecing together into a hexagonal prism.
Preferably, the hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle further comprises a puzzle frame, wherein: the puzzle frame comprises an upper cover, a lower cover and two side plates, the upper cover and the lower cover have a plurality of grooves individually, the two side plates insert into the plurality of grooves to form an accommodating space corresponding to the hexagonal prism.
Preferably, the plurality of the grooves is disposed with a slope angle; and a side slope angle of the hexagonal prismatic within the accommodating space is adjusted by the slope angle, wherein, the slope angle is 30°.
Preferably, a separation groove is disposed at the upper cover and the lower cover; and a separation plate is inserted into the separation groove to adjust a volume of the accommodating space, wherein, the volume of the accommodating space is equal to ⅔ of the volume of the hexagonal prism.
As described above, the hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle has one or more advantages described below:
(1) The hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle two unit components with different volume and shapes. In comparison with the prior puzzle games which only have a single type of puzzle, the present creation is much more complex and may be more effective in the improvement of logical thinking and sense of space.
(2) The hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle adapts to a puzzle frame having a hexagonal prismatic accommodating space, which provides the convenience when piecing the puzzles and makes it portable. Simultaneously, the adjustment of the frame plate may provide hexagonal prisms with various volumes and side angels. Thus, variety of the configurations may be enhanced.
(3) The hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle does not have a specific pattern, and is not limited to a single solution. Depending on various users, various puzzles may be designed by configuring the puzzle to various initial puzzles, in order to adjust the difficulties of the puzzle and make sure to adapt to the users of various ages.
For ease of explaining the technical features, contents and advantages of the present creation to the Examiner, the present creation will be described hereinafter by embodiment taken in conjunction with the appended drawings. The mentioned drawings are only for demonstrating and supporting this specification but are not exactly the real ratio and accurate configuration upon implementation. Hence, the creation shall not be realized only depending on the ratios and configurations shown in the drawings, and shall not be limited upon practice.
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In order to describe the small unit component SU and the big unit component BU more clearly to be beneficial in the description of puzzles. The shapes of big unit component BU and small unit component SU are described by coordinated vertices defined in a three-dimension coordinate system. For example, the coordinates of the four vertices of small unit component SU and the five vertices of big unit component BU are shown in Table 1.
Hereinafter, the puzzles will be described with the same ratios as the unit components in Table 1. The values in the table are only for describing the shape of the unit components but not for limiting the substantial length of the puzzles.
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In the aforementioned 18 shapes of the puzzles, the seventh puzzle b07, the eighth puzzle b08 and the fourteenth puzzle b14 may be composed of two repeated puzzles. Hence, the piece number of the puzzles of the present embodiment may be 21. A hexagonal prism may be pieced by these 21 shapes of puzzles, and a hexagonal prism having smaller size or different slope angles may also be pieced by picking up appropriate puzzles. The detail of the piecing configurations will be explained below taken in conjunction with a puzzle frame.
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In Table 3, although the third puzzle b03 to the sixth puzzle b06 are composed of one big unit component BU and one small unit component SU, the configurations of the big unit component BU and the small unit component SU therein are different. Hence, the said four kinds of puzzle have different shapes, which can be referred to the drawings and the coordinate listed in Table 2. The same as above, the shapes are also different from each other between the ninth puzzle b09 and the tenth puzzle b10, and the eleventh puzzle b11 and the thirteenth puzzle b13. Further, the arrangement and configuration of the unit components thereof are also different, so that the shapes of these 18 kinds of puzzle are different.
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The aforementioned descriptions are only for demonstration but not for limiting the scope of the present creation. A person skilled in the art is able to understand the core concept of the present invention after reading the content of above, and to modify the embodiment depending on requirements. In other words, the embodiment described above are not intended to limit the present invention. The scope protected by the present invention is defined by the appended claims.
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106207052 | May 2017 | TW | national |