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US 2009/0020947 A1Published application
Eight piece dissection puzzle
OwnerJohn H. Albersinventor
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Abstract
An eight-piece geometric puzzle includes five modified rectangular tiles each having a 45° interior angle, and three triangular tiles. The tiles are of rigid flat construction so as to be arrangeable on a flat surface edge to edge to form a variety of recognizable two-dimensional figures including, but not limited to, a rectangle, ship, cat head, cross, house, milk can, duck, temple, space capsule, elongated rectangle, polygon, and rocket.
Claims8
A geometric puzzle apparatus comprising:
- three planar isosceles triangular tiles, each having three linear edges, two of the triangular tiles being identical;
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- five planar truncated rectangular tiles, each having four linear edges, two 90° interior angles and one 45° interior angle;
- two of the truncated rectangular tiles being identical;
- whereby said three triangular tiles and five truncated rectangular tiles are abuttingly arrangeable on a flat surface to form a plurality of recognizable figures.
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