Puzzle apparatus

Puzzle apparatus comprising a set of 48 or a multiple of 48 pieces, each piece being planar and having a shape, and on at least one face a color pattern, corresponding respectively to the shape and color pattern of seven contiguous rhomboidal cells from a master pattern which in the case of simple rectilinear cells may be constructed by overlapping a first regular hexagonal mesh by three identical hexagonal meshes so as to partition the hexagons of the first mesh into twelve identical rhomboidal cells and in which in the same case three lines or chains of similarly oriented cells intersect at the centre of said hexamgons, neighboring cells in each line having different colors and alternate cells in each line having similar color, each of the three lines of cells presenting a different pair of colors from the other lines, and cells of similar color in parallel lines being in staggered or zigzag relationship one to another, the master pattern in other cases comprising cells derived from the rectilinear cells aforesaid by similarly treating each of the sides thereof, the pieces being arrangeable to provide a continuous planar assembly conforming with the master pattern.