RU193134U1 - PUZZLE - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to entertaining puzzle games and can be used to train attention, memory, imagination, the development of logical and figurative thinking and fine motor skills. The puzzle contains many parts with fragments of a color image on one side, made with the possibility of interfacing to form a whole color image. Some details are made in the form of semantic figures having the form of recognizable images. Other details are made of arbitrary shape with elements of mutual conjugation in the form of protrusions and recesses, at least part of which has a recognizable shape similar to the shape of fragments of semantic figures. The semantic figures are evenly placed on the field of the puzzle between parts of arbitrary shape. The technical result is the expansion of the arsenal of entertaining and educational games, by creating a new puzzle design with wide gaming capabilities. 7 c.p. f-ly, 6 ill.

Description

The technical field to which the utility model relates.

The utility model relates to entertaining puzzle games and can be used to train attention, memory, imagination, the development of logical and figurative thinking and fine motor skills.

State of the art

A puzzle is a collapsible picture, which is a mosaic that needs to be composed of many fragments of a picture of various shapes and contents.

Currently, there is a wide variety of puzzle modifications. Known board game puzzles, including a set of flat wooden game elements with fragments of a color image deposited on one or both sides of the elements, while the elements are made with the possibility of interfacing through the provided for them bulges (protrusions) and grooves (recesses) to form a holistic picture (see patent for utility model RU 96021, IPC: A63H33 / 08, A63F9 / 12, published on July 20, 2010).

Traditionally, the details of the puzzle have a shape close to square, triangular, or close to the shape of another geometric figure, on the sides of which protrusions and recesses are made, mainly of a semicircular configuration. These protrusions and recesses serve as couplers.

The assembly of such traditional puzzles is monotonous, especially if the picture is divided into a large number of game elements and contains large fields that are uniform in color.

More interesting and entertaining are puzzles in which mosaic-like game elements carrying fragments of an image have an arbitrary irregular shape: non-repeating (for example, see US patents US1948962, IPC: A63F9 / 10, publ. 12/14/1932 and US 5743741, publ. 04/28/98) or repeating, i.e. the same for all game elements (for example, see patents US20100194041, published 05/05/2010 and WO8001990, IPC: A63F9 / 10, publ. 02.10.1980).

Moreover, in the mosaic of the patent WO8001990, all game elements are made in the form of figures with a recognizable lizard shape, on one side of which fragments of a color image are applied, and the second side is painted “under the lizard”.

Known puzzle (patent GB 110992, IPC: A63F9 / 10, publ. 11/15/1917), including a wooden substrate, on one side of which is applied a color picture (figure). The wooden substrate with the picture is divided by cut lines into individual parts, and the cut lines on the back of the assembled puzzle form the outline of a figure with the recognizable shape of a particular animal - a camel. This figure is also divided by cut lines into many parts and can be assembled separately from the color picture.

This solution expands the functionality of the game, allows you to get a game with two tasks that differ in complexity.

As the closest analogue, by the presence of signs similar to the essential features of the claimed technical solution, the puzzle design disclosed in US1236378, PUZZLE, IPC: A63F9 / 10, publ. 08/07/1917.

 The puzzle includes many parts with fragments of a color image on one side, made with the possibility of interfacing for the formation of a consistent content of the color image. Some parts are made of arbitrary shape with elements of mutual conjugation in the form of protrusions and recesses. Other details are made in the form of semantic figures with an easily recognizable shape, evenly placed along the field of the puzzle between parts of an arbitrary shape.

The semantic figures are in the form of recognizable, well-known images, for example, letters, symbols, objects, machines, animal figures of animals, etc.

The presence of parts with an easily recognizable shape increases the fun of the game and facilitates the assembly of those parts of the picture where the colored fragments have a more or less uniform appearance in color, for example: sections of the sky, road, field, etc., due to “hidden” in them recognizable figures.

Despite the existing variety of famous mosaics, there is always a need for new puzzles, as a person is characterized by constant development and striving for new things.

The proposed technical solution is aimed at solving the problem of expanding the arsenal of entertaining educational games and creating a new design of a puzzle game (puzzle) with advanced gaming capabilities.

Utility Model Disclosure

The essence of the solution lies in the fact that in a puzzle containing many parts with fragments of a color image on one side, made with the possibility of interfacing to form a complete color image, of which some parts are made of arbitrary shape with elements of interfacing in the form of protrusions and recesses, others the details are made in the form of semantic figures with a recognizable shape, evenly placed along the field of the puzzle between parts of an arbitrary shape, according to the claimed utility model, at least a part the said protrusions and indentations are made with a recognizable shape that repeats the shape of fragments of semantic figures.

As in the prototype, the proposed puzzle contains two types of details: semantic figures that have the form of recognizable images, that is, figures that carry a certain content (meaning), and arbitrary shape details that perform the functions of connecting elements between semantic figures.

In contrast to the closest analogue, in the proposed design, the configuration of arbitrary-shaped parts contains a contour part characterized by a recognizable shape similar to the contour shape of a fragment of a semantic part. These are protrusions and recesses - the so-called "couplings" or "hooks" that provide mutual coupling between parts of arbitrary shape.

The presence of additional recognizable elements, repeating the form of individual parts (fragments) of semantic figures, increases the entertainingness of the game, provides new possibilities for its use by expanding the range of possible tasks in the game, helps to develop attentiveness, comparative analysis skills, etc.

In preferred embodiments of the technical solution, the semantic figures (all or some) are grouped together to form one or more plot pictures, and the semantic figures themselves, or part of them, are made up of composite, assembled from separate elements and form a “puzzle-in-puzzle”. Moreover, the elements that make up the figure can also be made of two types: with an arbitrary shape and in the form of recognizable figures.

Preferably, all semantic figures are interconnected by a common theme, which may correspond to the theme of a color image.

As a result of assembling such a puzzle, two pictures are obtained: the first is a color image on the front side of the puzzle, and the second is a graphic drawing formed by the contours of the details on the back of the puzzle.

Due to the thematic connection between semantic figures and “coupling” of arbitrary-shaped parts, the resulting graphic drawing also represents a complete thematic picture that can be used for educational purposes.

The proposed puzzle can be considered two-sided, because it is possible to collect two pictures in it: color on the front side and a graphic picture on the back side, and the assembly of these pictures can be made independently of each other.

The preferred material for the manufacture of puzzle parts is wood, mainly plywood 3-5 mm thick.

The claimed technical solution is illustrated below by the following drawings, in which in FIG. 1- FIG. 4 semantic figures are shown in gray for clarity, and in FIG. Figure 5 shows the image of the back side created by the cut lines, as this takes place in a real puzzle. At the same time, the front side is not illustrated, since the essence of the technical solution is revealed by the image of the back side, while on the front side with a color image the shapes of the parts, and their protrusions and indentations are difficult to see.

For a better understanding of the essence of the claimed technical solution, several examples of specific puzzle designs are given, with:

in FIG. 1 shows a view of the back of a assembled puzzle called “Tea Party”;

in FIG. 2 - view of the back of the assembled puzzle called "Tales of Pushkin";

in FIG. 3 - view of the back of the assembled puzzle called "Jugglers";

in FIG. 4 - view of the back of the assembled puzzle called "Friendship Celebration";

in FIG. 5 - view of the back of the assembled puzzle called "Christmas stories";

in FIG. Figure 6 shows photographs of individual parts that are semantic figures, while the same parts are shown from the front (a fragment of a color image) and from the back.

Utility Model Implementation

The puzzle consists of many parts, on the front side of which are fragments of a color image obtained in the form of a holistic picture when assembling the puzzle in a known manner.

As seen in FIG. 1 - FIG. 5, the inventive puzzle consists of two types of parts, indicated in the drawings of FIG. 1 - FIG. 4 positions 1 and 2. Details pos.1 made in the form of semantic figures with a recognizable shape. In other words, these details take the form of recognizable images that exist in reality or are fictitious and known, for example, from literature. Each semantic figure has an internal content recognized by the player in the shape of the figure.

Details pos. 1 can be made in the form of figures of people, animals, insects, birds, plants, fish and other marine and terrestrial inhabitants, fairy-tale characters, various objects, their parts (elements), various symbols, the meaning of which is widely known, etc.

Details pos. 1 are evenly placed on the puzzle field between the parts of pos. 2 so that the contour of one part pos. 1 is associated with at least two, and more often with a large number of parts pos. 2.

 Details pos. 2 have an arbitrary shape and elements of mutual conjugation in the form of protrusions and recesses corresponding to the recesses and protrusions of adjacent parts. The protrusions and recesses, the so-called "hitch" or "hooks" on the parts pos. 2, i.e., in details of arbitrary shape, have a contour of a recognizable shape similar to the shape of fragments of semantic figures, i.e. details pos. one.

In the example of FIG. 1, details pos. 1 have a recognizable shape of objects used in tea drinking: cups, teapots, various sweets, fruits, flowers, as well as figurines of cats. "Couplings" of parts pos. 2 at the same time have a recognizable shape of the head of a cat, marked pos. 3, tulip heads - pos. 4, the recognizable shape of the dome of the church - pos. 5, similar to the shape of the lids of dummies.

In the puzzle called “Pushkin's Tales”, shown in FIG. 2, semantic figures (details in pos. 1) have the form of various fairy-tale characters: the old man, the swan, the goldfish, the Tsar Maiden, Baba Yaga, the mermaid, etc., and related objects. You can also distinguish the symbolic images of the month, the sun, the wind, the poet’s head.

In this case, the "coupling" of the parts pos. 2 have a recognizable shape of fragments of a hut, indicated in FIG. 2 poses 6, the head of Baba Yaga - pos. 7, the head of a goldfish - pos. 7, fish tail (mermaid tail) - pos. 8, months - pos. 9.

In the examples given, a significant part of semantic figures (details of pos. 1) are made up of several assembled elements and can be used as mini-puzzles for assembling by players with little experience, for example, young children. Such a performance of semantic figures is shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3, FIG. 4. It increases the fun of the game, expands the possibilities of its multi-level use. At the same time, semantic figures can be an integral part. Such a design is illustrated in FIG. 5, where semantic figures in the form of integral parts are indicated by pos. 11, pos. 2, pos. 13, and also shown in FIG. 6.

The semantic figures executed with the details of pos. 1 can be grouped together into plot pictures, for example, see fig. 3, on which scenes from circus life are formed from semantic figures: several clowns juggling hats, sweets, shoes and other objects, gymnasts, acrobats. In this puzzle "coupling" of the parts pos. 2 have a recognizable shape of the arms and legs of clowns and gymnasts, indicated by pos. 10.

Due to the fact that all semantic figures (details of pos. 1) are interconnected by a common theme, and the details of pos. 2 have elements (protrusions and indentations) made in the form of fragments of parts 1, on the back of the puzzle a thematic picture is formed in the form of a graphic drawing formed by the lines of the contours of the parts pos. 1 and pos. 2.

The themes on the front and back of the puzzle can overlap, which allows you to get a thematic game that can be used not only for entertainment, but also for educational purposes.

As a color image, any artistic picture can be used, for example, a picture of an artist, which will help promote his work to the masses.

A similar design can be used for advertising purposes, for example, as a corporate gift with the appropriate theme of the drawings.

The assembled puzzle can have the traditional shape of a rectangle, and can be made in a complex form, see, for example, Fig. 4, where the assembled puzzle is made in the form of three seated cats. This technique also allows you to expand the possibilities of using the puzzle, by ensuring the simultaneous assembly of individual puzzle fields by several players at once, for example, temporarily as a competition.

 As a material for the manufacture of puzzle parts, wood is used. Parts can be cut out of a sheet of wood material, for example, veneer or plywood, by laser cutting, during which a dark (burnt) edge of the wooden game element is formed, which allows you to get a graphic picture on the back of the assembled puzzle with clear contrasting lines due to pronounced , and therefore selected in this way, cut lines.

Semantic wooden figures with recognizable shapes can be used as independent game elements (toys). An example of such details is shown in FIG. 6.

Claims (8)

1. A puzzle containing many parts with fragments of a color image on one side, made with the possibility of interfacing to form a complete color image, of which some parts are made of arbitrary shape with elements of interfacing in the form of protrusions and recesses, other details are made in the form of semantic figures with a recognizable shape, evenly spaced along the field of the puzzle between parts of arbitrary shape, characterized in that at least part of the said protrusions and recesses are made with contour th recognizable form, echoing the shape of pieces of semantic figures. 2. The puzzle according to claim 1, characterized in that at least a part of the semantic figures are grouped together to form a plot picture. 3. The puzzle according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one semantic figure is made of constituent elements. 4. The puzzle according to claim 3, characterized in that the constituent elements are made of arbitrary shape. 5. The puzzle according to claim 3, characterized in that part of the constituent elements is made with a recognizable shape. 6. The puzzle according to claim 1, characterized in that all semantic figures are interconnected by a common theme corresponding to the theme of a color image. 7. The puzzle according to claim 1, characterized in that the details are made of wood. 8. The puzzle according to claim 7, characterized in that the parts are made of plywood.

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