Stackable puzzle and a method for stacking characters of a set to form the puzzle
AssigneeFundustry, Inc.
InventorCraig Barnard
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Abstract
A stackable puzzle and assembly having a set of known characters arrangeable in a know order are provided. The puzzle includes pieces that may be interconnected to form a stack of the pieces. The stack can only be arranged in the known order as a result of a unique arrangement of pegs and apertures on each of the interior pieces of the stack. The first piece preferably includes only pegs and the last piece only includes apertures. A method is further provided for stacking a plurality of characters representing a set of characters such that the set is arrangeable in a known order.
Claims17
An assembly of known characters arrangeable in a known order, the assembly comprising:
- a plurality of pieces, each piece distinctly shaped to represent one of the known characters;
- two pegs having a cross-sectional area projecting perpendicularly from each of the plurality of pieces;
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- two apertures defining a cross-sectional area slightly larger than the cross-sectional area of each of the pegs, the two apertures constructed and arranged through each of the plurality of pieces such that the two pegs projecting from one of the plurality of pieces only fit through the two apertures of another one of the plurality of pieces such that the pieces are arranged consecutively in the known order.
A stackable puzzle comprising:
- a first character having at least one peg constructed and arranged perpendicularly to a face of the character wherein the first character is distinctly shaped to represent a letter of an alphabet;
- and
- a plurality of additional characters each having at least one peg and at least one aperture wherein the number of pegs is the same as the number of apertures and further wherein the at least one peg and the at least one aperture are constructed and arranged for stacking one of the plurality of characters on the first character and subsequent characters of the plurality of additional characters on one of the other of the plurality of additional characters such that all of the characters are arranged in a known order for the characters following stacking wherein the plurality of additional characters is distinctly shaped so that each represents a different letter of the alphabet.
A method for stacking a plurality of characters representing a set of known characters wherein the set is arrangeable in a known order, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a first character in the set, the first character having two pegs arranged perpendicularly to a face of the character wherein the first character is distinctly shaped to represent one of the known characters;
- providing a plurality of subsequent characters in the set, each of the subsequent characters having two pegs and two apertures wherein each of the plurality of subsequent characters is distinctly shaped to represent a different one of the known characters;
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- stacking one of the plurality of subsequent characters in the set in the known order such that the two apertures of the subsequent character uniquely mates with the two pegs of the first character.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.