Picture puzzle

Abstract

A picture puzzle comprised of a plurality of elongated pieces, each piece having a plurality of sides presenting a segment of a picture on each side, the puzzle seated in a rectangular box adapted to hold said pieces in a contiguous relationship with selective sides of said pieces in a face-up relationship so that when all the sides are aligned in a grooved base created from some of the pieces, all of the segments of the full picture face upwardly and are in contiguous relationship with each other, thereby forming a full picture. Differing sides of the pieces may be aligned contiguously and in face-up fashion, so that three (3) or six (6) different pictures may be constructed.

1 . An article of invention as a picture puzzle comprising a plurality of elongated equilateral triangular tubes with each tube having three (3) faces imprinted in a predetermined manner so that when all the elongated tubes are arranged side-by-side with their longitudinal axis in parallel with each other, each piece laid firmly in the grooved recesses of a grooved base of similar angle (60 degrees), and similar dimensions of width and longitude to receive the equilateral triangular tubes, all within a rectangular box accommodating the grooved base. 
   
   
       2 . An article according to  claim 1 . wherein each face (side) of the equilateral triangular tube has an imprinted image of a segment of a picture, the three sides having segments of three (3) differing pictures, in color, thereon. 
   
   
       3 . An article according to  claim 1 . wherein the recesses of a grooved base in the rectangular box are also triangular with angles of 60 degrees to receive the elongated equilateral triangular tubes. 
   
   
       4 . An article according to  claim 1 . wherein each of the thirteen (13) equilateral triangular tubes, except for one (1), has an imprinted image of a segment of a picture, in color, on the three (3) sides of each tube. One tube included in the groove base is not imprinted, and remains seated in the grooved base of the rectangular box and is never used as a segment in any of the full pictures. 
   
   
       5 . An article according to  claim 1 . wherein each of the equilateral triangular tubes and the rectangular box can be manufactured from either cardboard, plastic or wood.