Color-change puzzle game

A puzzle apparatus for providing a user with a challenging puzzle to solve, said apparatus comprising:

• a generally spherical housing having at least one generally circumferential opening therein;
• a generally circular matrix of shaped color-producing media disposed within said housing;
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• a plurality of generally interengaged, slidable tiles carrying color-producing media thereon, said tiles being proximate said opening of said housing;
• a light source oriented to direct light to said shaped color-producing media;
• wherein said light source radiates light from proximate the center of said generally spherical housing through respective media of said shaped color-producing media of generally circular matrix, then through respective media of said color-producing media of said slidable tiles, and then to the eye of the user such that at least some of said light seen by the user has passed through both a color-producing medium in said circular matrix and a color-producing medium in one of said tiles, said respective color-producing media interacting to produce a light color other than that which would have been produced if the light had passed through only one of said color-producing media;
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• wherein said slidable tiles are relatively arrangeable to produce a solution to said puzzle, said solution comprising a predetermined pattern of colors as viewable by the user when looking generally toward said opening of said housing.

An art set for facilitating the creation of artistic patterns of colored light, said art set apparatus comprising:

• a housing having at least one opening therein;
• a matrix of shaped color-producing media disposed within said housing;
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• a plurality of generally interengaged, slidable tiles carrying color-producing media thereon, said tiles being proximate said opening of said housing;
• a light source oriented to direct light to said shaped color-producing media;
• wherein said light source radiates light through respective media of said shaped color-producing media of said matrix, then through respective media of said color-producing media of said slidable tiles, and then to the eye of the user such that at least some of said light seen by the user has passed through both a color-producing medium in said matrix and a color-producing medium in one of said tiles, said respective color-producing media interacting to produce a light color other than that which would have been produced if the light had passed through only one of said color-producing media.

A method for a user to solve a puzzle presented by a puzzle apparatus wherein said apparatus includes a housing having at least one opening therein, a matrix of shaped color-producing media disposed within said housing, and a plurality of generally interengaged, slidable tiles carrying color-producing media thereon, said tiles being proximate said opening of said housing, wherein a light source radiates light through respective ones of said shaped color-producing media of said matrix, then through respective ones of said color-producing media of said slidable tiles, and then to the eye of said user such that at least some of said light seen by said user has passed through both a color-producing medium in said matrix and a color-producing medium in one of said tiles, said respective color-producing media interacting to produce a light color other than what which would have been produced if the light had passed through only one of said color-producing media, said method comprising the following steps:

• (a) sliding an individual tile relatively to others of said tiles within said generally interlocking configuration such that said tile is brought into a different aligned correspondence from one color-producing medium of said matrix to another color-producing medium of said matrix;
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• (b) repeating step (a) until said interlocking tiles are arranged to produce a solution to said puzzle, said solution comprising a predetermined pattern of colors as viewable by said user when looking generally toward said opening of said housing.

A puzzle apparatus for providing a user with a challenging puzzle to solve, said apparatus comprising:

• a housing having at least one opening therein;
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• a plurality of generally parallel plates having windows containing color-producing media therein, said plates being disposed in said housing and being individually rotatable about a common axis to align windows from individual said plates;
• a light source oriented to direct light to said shaped color-producing media;
• wherein said light source radiates light through respective color-producing media of said aligned windows, and then to the eye of the user such that at least some of said light seen by the user has passed through color-producing media in windows of at least two of said plurality of plates, said color-producing media interacting to produce a light color other than that which would have been produced if the light had not passed through one of said color-producing media;
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• wherein said plates are individually rotatable to produce a solution to said puzzle, said solution comprising a predetermined pattern of colors as viewable by the user when looking generally toward said opening of said housing.