# US 10,695,659 B2 · Puzzle set and method thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,695,659 B2 - Document ID: US10695659B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/026,971 - Filed: 2018-07-03 - Published: 2018-11-08 - Granted: 2020-06-30 - Earliest claimed: 2016-01-04 - Assignees: Ofir Elbaz; Asaf Elbaz; Chen Elbaz; Yehuda Elbaz - Applicants: Ofir Elbaz; Asaf Elbaz; Chen Elbaz; Yehuda Elbaz - Inventors: Yehuda Elbaz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10695659B2 ## CPC - A63F 9/0803: {Two-dimensional puzzles with slideable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged} - A63F 9/08: Puzzles provided with elements movable in relation, {i.e. movably connected}, to each other - A63F 9/1204: {Puzzles consisting of non-interlocking identical blocks, e.g. children's block puzzles} - A63F 13/23: for interfacing with the game device, e.g. specific interfaces between game controller and console - G09B 1/00: Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols, signs, pictures, or the like which are arranged or adapted to be arranged in one or more particular ways (puzzle-games A63F9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F) - G09B 1/02: and having a support carrying or adapted to carry the elements - G09B 1/16: the elements each bearing a plurality of different symbols, signs, or combinations of symbols and signs, only one symbol, sign, or combination thereof, of each element to be used at a time - A63F 2009/1236: {with a final configuration thereof, i.e. the solution, being packed in a box or container} - A63F 2300/1025: details of the interface with the game device, e.g. USB version detection - A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G09B: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B) ## Abstract A puzzle set comprises a plurality of cubes, each configured with a drawing at one or more of its facets; and an interface configured to cause the cubes to be positioned one adjacent to the other while permitting a change in disposition and rotational state of any of the cubes. The drawings are designed to allow continuation of one another, by which viewable contiguous facets define together a composite symbol, upon positioning the cubes in accordance with a predetermined arrangement. At least one of the facets is rotatable in relation to other facets when the cubes are positioned one adjacent to the other, allowing rotation of its drawing without separating the cubes. In a method for generating a viewable object, a facet is displaced and rotated until the drawing on each of the viewable contiguous facets are in continuation of one another to define together the viewable object. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A puzzle set, comprising: a plurality of cubes, each comprising a drawing at one or more facets thereof; and an interface configured to cause said plurality of cubes to be positioned one adjacent to the other and to cause a first facet of each of said plurality of cubes viewed by a player to be coplanar, while permitting a change in disposition and rotational state of the first facet of any of said plurality of cubes; wherein said drawing at one or more facets of a first of said plurality of cubes is designed to allow continuation of another drawing at one or more facets of a second of said plurality of cubes, by which contiguous facets of said plurality of cubes including said first and second cubes that are viewed by the player define together a composite symbol or symbols, upon positioning said plurality of cubes in accordance with a predetermined arrangement; and wherein at least one of said one or more facets of each of said plurality of cubes comprises displacement facilitating apparatus to facilitate outward linear displacement and subsequent rotation of a selected first facet in relation to all other first facets of said plurality of cubes when the first facet of each of said plurality of cubes are positioned one adjacent to another and are coplanar and contiguous one with another, thereby allowing rotation of the drawing of said selected first facet to achieve said predetermined arrangement. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein the displacement facilitating apparatus comprises: a stationary surface; and a movable surface which is movable in relation to said stationary surface. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said facets of each of said plurality of cubes comprises the displacement facilitating apparatus. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The puzzle set according to claim 3, wherein all facets of each of said plurality of cubes comprise the displacement facilitating apparatus. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein the displacement facilitating apparatus further comprises rotation facilitating apparatus to facilitate rotation in relation to the other facets of said plurality of cubes. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The puzzle set according to claim 5, wherein the rotation facilitating apparatus comprises an axle, for moving a movable surface of the displacement facilitating apparatus about a stationary surface of the displacement facilitating apparatus. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The puzzle set according to claim 2, wherein the displacement facilitating apparatus further comprises: a positioning element, for positioning said movable surface at a stable position in relation to said stationary surface. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The puzzle set according to claim 7, wherein said positioning element comprises a member selected from a group consisting of a spring and a magnet. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The puzzle set according to claim 2, wherein said at least one of said facets further comprises: oblique surfaces of said stationary surface and of said movable surface, being complementary one to the other. ### Claim 10 (depends on 2) The puzzle set according to claim 2, wherein said at least one of said facets further comprises: an element for preventing removal of said movable surface from said stationary surface. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein the interface is a frame configured to urge the plurality of cubes in a formation of rows and columns, when placed adjacent one to the other within the frame. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein the interface is embodied by magnetic material which is provided with one or more facets of each of said plurality of cubes, for magnetically coupling together adjacent cubes. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein the displacement facilitating apparatus is configured to facilitate concurrent linear displacement and rotation in relation to the other facets of said plurality of cubes. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein the displacement facilitating apparatus is configured to facilitate outward linear displacement of the selected first facet in a direction substantially parallel to the other first facets of the plurality of cubes which are positioned one adjacent to the other and are coplanar and contiguous one with another. ### Claim 15 (depends on 4) The puzzle set according to claim 4, wherein the interface is also configured to cause a second facet of each of said plurality of cubes viewed by a player to be coplanar, and wherein at least one of said second facets comprises the displacement facilitating apparatus to facilitate outward linear displacement and subsequent rotation of a selected one of said second facets in relation to the other second facets of said plurality of cubes when the other second facets of said plurality of cubes are positioned one adjacent to the other and are coplanar and contiguous one with another, thereby allowing rotation of the drawing of said selected second facet without separating one of said plurality of cubes from other ones of said plurality of cubes. ### Claim 16 (depends on 3) The puzzle set according to claim 3, wherein the displacement facilitating apparatus further comprises one or more electromechanical devices and an actuator for effecting the displacement. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The puzzle set according to claim 16, wherein the actuator is mounted on the interface, the interface comprising circuitry causing said plurality of cubes to be positioned one adjacent to the other and the displacement facilitating apparatus of two or more of said plurality of cubes to be simultaneously and selectively effected. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein the interface is a user interface and said plurality of cubes are graphically displayable on a screen of an electronic device, said user interface configured to cause rotation of one or more cubes of said plurality of cubes in response to selective manipulation of said user interface and predetermined instructions stored in a processor on which said user interface is running to define the composite symbol or symbols in accordance with the predetermined arrangement. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The puzzle set according to claim 1, wherein the displacement facilitating apparatus comprises a hollow element extending from the selected first facet which is rotatable about a tubular projection of a core member, a coiled spring housed within said hollow element for facilitating the outward linear displacement, and a latch mechanism releasably engageable with an element connected to the selected first facet for preventing the outward linear displacement when the selected first facet is in a retracted position. ### Claim 20 A method for generating a viewable object, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of cubes, each comprising a drawing at one or more facets thereof; causing said plurality of cubes to be positioned one adjacent to another while a first facet of each of said plurality of cubes viewed by a player are coplanar and contiguous one with another and the drawing at one or more facets thereof on each of said first facets are non-continuous; linearly displacing at least one selected facet of said first facets of said plurality of cubes outwardly in relation to all other first facets of said plurality of cubes when the first facet of each of said plurality of cubes are positioned one adjacent to the other and are coplanar and contiguous one with another; and rotating said at least one linearly displaced selected facet until the drawing at one or more facets thereof on each of said first facets, when once again coplanar, are in continuation of one another to define together a viewable object.