JPH032302Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed explanation of the idea] The present invention relates to a puzzle game toy.

In conventional puzzle games that change the two-dimensional arrangement of chips on the board, for example, in the 15 game, the process of forming empty positions of chips on the board and moving chips adjacent to the empty positions to the empty positions is repeated. Therefore, a method of changing the chip arrangement is adopted, and a method of cyclically moving a set of chips is not adopted. Here, moving cyclically means that any chip in a set of three or more chips moves to the position where one of the chips in the set was before movement.

On the other hand, in puzzle games that change the three-dimensional chip arrangement, such as the Rubik's Cube game, the chip arrangement is changed by repeating the procedure of cyclically moving the arrangement of a set of solid objects (considered as a type of chips). However, the structure of the toy is three-dimensional and complex. Furthermore, if the number of chips is 13 or more, it is not possible to change from arbitrary chip arrangement to arbitrary chip arrangement due to structural limitations of the toy. For example, in the Rubitzk cube game, the solid at the top of the cube is only at the top.
A solid at the center of a side can only be moved to the center of the side, and a solid at the center of a face can only be moved to the center of the face.

The purpose of the present invention is to realize a puzzle game in which the arrangement of chips on a two-dimensional board is changed by repeating the procedure of cyclically moving a set of chips, and to create a toy structure using this changing method on a two-dimensional board. The goal is to make it easier.

Another purpose of the present invention is to realize a puzzle game in which the number of chips can be changed from one arbitrary chip arrangement to another arbitrary chip arrangement even if the number of chips is 13 or more by repeating the procedure of cyclically moving a set of chips. .

Next, the present invention will be explained based on the drawings. This example corresponds to the second claim of utility model registration.

A flat board surface 1 is divided into hexagonal frames 2 (thick lines in Figure 1), and the inside of the frame 2 is divided by congruent equilateral triangles 3 (the hatched portions descending to the left in Figure 1). Equilateral triangle 3 corresponds to the first regular polygon. A chip storage area 4 is provided at each vertex of each equilateral triangle 3 on the board surface 1. Here, each vertex is shared by a plurality of equilateral triangles 3, but even if the vertices are shared, there is only one chip storage location 4 per vertex. In FIG. 1, chips 5 are placed in all chip storage areas 4. A regular hexagon 6 (the hatched part pointing downward to the right in FIG. 1) is composed of six regular triangles 3 that share one vertex. Regular hexagon 6 corresponds to the second regular polygon.

The chips 5 may be anything that has an identification mark and can be placed stably in the chip storage 4 without overlapping each other, and in this embodiment, it is a disk with hiragana written on it. The chip moving tool 7 has seven holes 8 into which the chips 5 located in a total of seven chip storage areas 4 are inserted, located at the vertices and centers of the regular hexagon 6. A knob 10 is attached to a disc-shaped base 9 of different dimensions (see Figs. 2 and 3).
Then, by holding the knob 10 and rotating the chip moving tool 7 around the center of the regular hexagon 6, all the chips 5 located at the six vertices of the regular hexagon 6 can be moved with one rotation.
can be moved to another vertex of the regular hexagon 6. Chips 5 located at the center and outside of the regular hexagon 6 during this rotation
The position of is unchanged. In other words, a set of chips 5 located on a ring of regular hexagons 6 can be cyclically moved. Note that the chip moving tool 7 may have any other shape as long as it can cyclically move the six chips 5 on the regular hexagonal ring 6 in one rotation. Further, as long as the chip storage area 4 is displayed on the board 1, the equilateral triangle 3 and the frame 2 do not need to be displayed.

The method of moving the chip according to the present invention will be explained.

First, two regular hexagons H that share only one vertex P1
1. Consider H2. On the ring of regular hexagon H1, the j (1 to 5)th vertex clockwise from P1 is P2, and on the ring of regular hexagon H2, k (1 to 5) in the clockwise direction from P1.
Let the apex of the number be P3. For simplicity, the same symbol is used for the chip place and the vertex. Chip storage P1,
The chips initially located on P2 and P3 are respectively C.
1, C2, and C3 (see Figure 4A). First, rotate the chip on the ring of regular hexagon H1 counterclockwise and
Move to the k-th chip storage area, then rotate the chips on the ring of regular hexagon H2 counterclockwise and move them to the k-th chip storage area, then rotate the chips on the ring of regular hexagon H1 clockwise. Then, when the chips on the ring of regular hexagon H2 are rotated clockwise and moved to the k-th chip storage area, chips C2 and C are placed on the chip storage areas P1, P2, and P3, respectively.
3, C1 moves, and the positions of the other chips remain unchanged (see Figure 4B). That is, 3 chips C1, C
2. Only C3 can be moved cyclically.

Next, on the ring of regular hexagon H2, move 1 clockwise from P1.
Let the (1st to 5th) vertices be P4, and the chip storage P
The chips initially located on 1 to P4 are respectively C1 to
C4 (see Figure 4 C). First, chip storage P
If only the three chips on chip locations P1, P2, and P3 are moved cyclically, and then only the three chips on chip locations P1, P3, and P4 are moved cyclically, as a result, chip C4 is moved on chip locations P1, P3, and P4, respectively. , C1, and C3 move, and the positions of the other chips remain unchanged (see FIG. 4D). In other words, the positions of any three chips on any regular hexagonal ring can be cyclically moved.

Let arbitrary vertices on regular hexagons H3, H4, and H5 be P5, P6, and P7, respectively. Regular hexagon H3 and H
4 is m regular hexagons H that share two vertices.
6, H7, H8, . . . , H9, H10, and regular hexagons H3 and H5 are connected by n regular hexagons H11, . Regular hexagons H3 and H6 have two vertices P
8 and P9, regular hexagons H6 and H7 share two vertices P10 and P11, regular hexagons H7 and H8 share two vertices P12 and P13, and regular hexagon H9
and H10 share two vertices P14 and P15, and regular hexagons H10 and H3 share two vertices P16 and P17. In this way, any two chip locations on the board can be connected by a regular hexagon that shares two vertices. Also, regular hexagons H3 and H11 have two vertices P1
8 and P19, and regular hexagons H12 and H5 share two vertices P20 and P21. Chip storage P
5~C5~C the chip initially located on P21
21 (see Figure 5A). First, regular hexagon H3
Cyclically move only the three chips on the chip storage areas P5, P8, and P9 on the ring, and move them to the chip storage area P.
5, the chips located on P8 and P9 are respectively C8,
Let them be C9 and C5. Next, only 3 chips are placed on the ring of regular hexagon H6 on chip storage areas P9, P10, and P11, and then chip storage area P1 is placed on the ring of regular hexagon H7.
Only the 3 chips on 1, P12, P13..., then the chip locations P15, P on the ring of regular hexagon H10
If only the 3 chips on 16 and P17 are moved cyclically, the chip storage locations P5, P8,
Chips C8, C9, C10, C11, ..., C1 are placed on P9, P10, ..., P16, P17, respectively.
7, C5 moves, and the positions of the other chips remain unchanged (see Figure 5B). Next, only the three chips on the ring of regular hexagon H4 are chip storage P6, P17, and P16, and the chip storage P16 on the ring of regular hexagon H10,
Only 3 chips on P15, P14... Chip storage places P12, P11, P1 on the ring of regular hexagon H7
If only the 3 chips on 0 and the 3 chips on the chip locations P10, P9, and P8 on the ring of the regular hexagon H6 are sequentially moved cyclically, chips C8 and C will be placed on the chip locations P5, P8, and P6, respectively.
6, C5 moves, and the positions of the other chips become the same as in the initial state (see Figure 5C). This result is applicable when m is 0 or a positive integer, so
Only three chips located on two vertices of any regular hexagon and on any one chip location on the board can be cyclically moved.

Next, if the chip storage area P18 can be made equal to P8, if only the three chips on the two vertices P8 and P5 of the regular hexagon H3 and the one vertex P7 of the regular hexagon H5 are moved cyclically, then if the chip storage area P18
and P19 are both different from P8, only the 3 chips on the chip storage areas P8, P18, P19, only the 3 chips on P7, P19, P18, P
If only the three chips on 5, P16, and P8 are moved sequentially to the cycle, as a result, the chip storage area P
5, chips C7, C5, C6 on P6, P7 respectively
moves, and the positions of the other chips become the same as their initial positions (see Figure 5D). In other words, only three arbitrary chips on the board can be moved cyclically.

Next, select any 4 chip locations P22 to P2 on the board.
The chips initially located on 5 are C22 to C2 respectively.
5. First, chip storage P22, P23, P2
If only the 3 chips on chip locations P23, P24, and P25 are moved to the cyclic cycle, then only the 3 chips on the chip locations P23, P24, and P25 are moved to the cyclic location. Chips C23, C22, C25, and C24 move onto P24 and P25, respectively, and the positions of the other chips remain unchanged. In other words, the positions of any two sets of two chips can be exchanged.

Next, select any 6 chip locations P26 to P3 on the board.
The chips initially located on 1 are C26 to C3 respectively.
1, and the 6 vertices P32 of any regular hexagon H13
The chips initially located on P37 are respectively C32~
C37 (see Figure 6A). First, the two chips on chip storage P26 and P27 and chip storage P32.
and P33, respectively, so that chips C32, C33, C26, and C27 are located on chip storage areas P26, P27, P32, and P33, respectively. Next, exchange the 2 chips on chip storage areas P28 and P29 and the 2 chips on chip storage areas P34 and P35, respectively, and then exchange the 2 chips on chip storage areas P30 and P31, and the 2 chips on chip storage areas P36 and P37, respectively. Then, chip storage P26-P3
1. Chips C32 to C3 on P32 to P37 respectively
7, C26 to C31 move, and the positions of the other chips remain unchanged (see FIG. 6B). Next, regular hexagon H
Cyclically move the 6 chips on the ring No. 13, and then exchange the 6 chips on the chip storage areas P26 to P31 and the 6 chips on the chip storage areas P32 to P37 again, and as a result, any 6 chip storage area P
Only the chips above P26 to P31 can be moved cyclically.

Therefore, only the 6 chips C26 to C31 on the chip storage areas P26 to P31 were moved cyclically.
Chips C27 are placed on chip storage areas P26 to P31 respectively.
- C31 and C26 are positioned (see FIG. 6C). Next, chip storage P30, P29, P2
Only 3 chips above 8, chip storage P28, P2
7. If only the 3 chips on P26 are sequentially moved cyclically, the chip storage locations P26, P26 will be moved as a result.
Chips C31 and C26 move onto the top of the chip C31, respectively, and the positions of the other chips become the same as the initial state (6th chip).
(See Figure D). In other words, the positions of any two chips on the board can be exchanged without changing the positions of all other chips.

By sequentially repeating the replacement of only two arbitrary chips on the board, any desired chip arrangement can be realized on the board. As described above, it is possible to change from an arbitrary chip arrangement to an arbitrary chip arrangement.

You can adjust the difficulty of the game by changing the dimensions of the frame, increasing the number of chips for the same mark, etc.

Since the present invention is a puzzle game toy composed of the board, chips, and chip moving device as described above, it has the following effects.

1. Since a set of chips on a regular hexagonal ring on a flat board can be easily moved cyclically with one rotation, two-dimensional It becomes easy to manufacture a puzzle game toy in which the chip arrangement is changed, and by this method, the structure of the puzzle game toy in which the chip arrangement is changed can be made flat and simple.

2. In a puzzle game in which the chip arrangement is changed by repeating the procedure of cyclically moving a set of chips, it is possible to change from any chip arrangement to any chip arrangement even if the number of chips is 13 or more.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a plan view of the board and chips with chips placed on the board surface, Figure 2 is a plan view of the chip mover and chips with the chip mover placed over the chips, and Figure 3 is a plan view of the chips. AA' cross-sectional view in Figure 4A
-D, FIGS. 5A-D, and 6A-D are schematic diagrams showing the chip arrangement on the board. 1... Board surface, 2... Frame, 3... First regular hexagon (regular triangle), 4... Chip storage area, 5... Chip,
6... Second regular polygon (regular hexagon), 7... Chip moving tool, 8... Hole, 9... Chip moving tool base,
10...Knob, H1-H13...Regular hexagon, P
1 to P37... Chip storage area (vertices of the first regular polygon), C1 to C37... Chips.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) In a puzzle game toy that is composed of a board, chips, and a chip moving device and is used in a puzzle game that changes the arrangement of chips on the board, The chip is divided into a first regular polygon, and a chip storage area is provided at each vertex of the first regular polygon, and the chip has an identification mark and has a shape that allows it to be stably placed in the chip storage area without overlapping. One chip moving device can be placed in each of the chip storage areas, and the chip moving device can rotate around the center of a second regular polygon formed from a plurality of first regular polygons, and A disk having a hole through which all chips located at each vertex of a square can be moved to another vertex of the second regular polygon at once, and a hole into which the chip located at the center of the second regular polygon can be inserted. A puzzle game toy characterized by consisting of a shaped stand. (2) Scope of utility model registration claims in which an equilateral triangle is a first regular polygon, and a regular hexagon formed by six first regular polygons that share one vertex is a second regular polygon. The puzzle game toy described in item 1.