Picture puzzle

Abstract

A picture puzzle wherein each part of the puzzle is constructed by the user to form a plurality of elongated pieces and a rectangular box, each elongated piece having a plurality of sides presenting a segment of a picture on each side, the puzzle pieces then 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 then aligned contiguously and in face-up fashion, so that six (6) different pictures may be constructed.

1 . An article of invention consisting of various pre-created cards and then constructed by the user thereby forming one (1) rectangular box and thirteen (13) 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 when constructed by the user, each face (side) of the equilateral triangular tube has an imprinted image of a segment of a picture, the three sides having segments of six (6) 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 pre-printed cards to be constructed by the user into equilateral triangular tubes and a rectangular box can be manufactured from either cardboard, plastic or wood.