6-Directional Icosidodecahedron Rotational Puzzle

Abstract

Games and toys that include systems, devices, apparatus and methods for physically and mechanically organizing a plurality of separate pentagon face pieces in combination with a plurality of separate triangular face pieces to form icosidodecahedron with one of several predetermined patterns. The games and toys can include a 2-color and 4-color setups of using 12 pentagon face pieces with 20 triangular face pieces, each of the pieces can include magnets on their bottom which magnetically attract to central metal bearing forming an overall sphere shape. Sections of the assembled icosidodecahedron can be rotated along up to six equators by the player into different predetermined patterns that exist from the two color and four-color setups.

1 . A mechanically moveable puzzle game for organizing different disordered faces of puzzle pieces that form an icosidodecahedron into one of several predetermined patterns, comprising:
 a central metal ball;   a plurality of puzzle pieces consisting of twelve separate pentagon face puzzle pieces with contiguous convex curved outer face surfaces, each having a lower facing magnet, and   twenty separate triangular face puzzle pieces with contiguous convex curved outer face surfaces, each having a lower facing magnet,   wherein the lower facing magnets of the twelve separate puzzle pieces and the lower facing magnets of the twenty separate puzzle pieces mechanically all magnetically attach to and are rotatable about the central metal ball, and all together form a spherical projection of an icosidodecahedron having an assembled sphere shape of disorganized puzzle pieces; and   a plurality of game plays to form a predetermined organized pattern from the disorganized puzzle pieces in the sphere shape is accomplished, each game play limited to solely rotating and counter rotating selected complete hemispheres of the sphere shape, each of the selected complete hemispheres formed from different combinations of the twelve pentagon face puzzle pieces and the twenty separate triangular face puzzle pieces.   
     
     
         2 . (canceled) 
     
     
         3 . (canceled) 
     
     
         4 . The puzzle game of  claim 1 , wherein the 12 pentagon face puzzle pieces and the 20 triangular face puzzle pieces include a two-color setup. 
     
     
         5 . The puzzle game of  claim 4 , wherein the two-color setup includes:
 a first color of 6 pentagon face pieces and 10 triangular face pieces; and   a second color of 6 pentagon face pieces and 10 triangular face pieces.   
     
     
         6 . The puzzle game of  claim 1 , wherein the 12 pentagon face puzzle pieces and the 20 triangular face puzzle pieces include a four-color setup. 
     
     
         7 . The puzzle game of  claim 6 , wherein the four-color setup includes:
 a first color of 5 pentagon face pieces and 5 triangular face pieces;   a second color of 5 pentagon face pieces and 5 triangular face pieces;   a third color of 1 pentagon face piece and 5 triangular face pieces;   a fourth color of 1 pentagon face piece and 5 triangular face pieces.   
     
     
         8 . (canceled) 
     
     
         9 . The puzzle game of  claim 1 , wherein the predetermined configuration of the pentagon face and the triangle face make the assembled sphere shape between approximately 2 inches to approximately 3.5 inches in diameter. 
     
     
         10 . A method for mechanically organizing different disordered faces of separate puzzle pieces to form an icosidodecahedron into one of a plurality of predetermined patterns, comprising the steps of:
 providing a central metal ball;   providing a first plurality of puzzle pieces consisting of twelve separate pentagon face puzzle pieces from two colors, each having contiguous convex curved outer face surfaces, each having a lower facing magnet;   providing a second plurality of puzzle pieces consisting of twenty separate triangular face puzzle pieces from the two colors, each having contiguous convex curved outer face surfaces, each having a lower facing magnet;   magnetically attaching the lower facing magnets of the first plurality of puzzle pieces and the lower facing magnets of the second plurality of puzzle pieces to the central metal ball to form a spherical projection of an icosidodecahedron having an assembled sphere shape with a disorganized pattern of disorganized puzzle pieces;   mechanically rotating and counter-rotating different selected complete hemispheres from the assembled sphere of the disorganized puzzle pieces; and   repeating sequences of mechanically rotating and counter-rotating the different the selected complete hemispheres until an organized pattern visible on the assembled sphere is achieved.   
     
     
         11 . (canceled) 
     
     
         12 . (canceled) 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the 12 pentagon face puzzle pieces and the 20 triangular face puzzle pieces include a two-color setup. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the two-color setup includes:
 a first color of 6 pentagon face pieces and 10 triangular face pieces; and   a second color of 6 pentagon face pieces and 10 triangular face pieces.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the 12 pentagon face puzzle pieces and the 20 triangular face puzzle pieces include a four-color setup. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15 , wherein the four-color setup includes:
 a first color of 5 pentagon face pieces and 5 triangular face pieces;   a second color of 5 pentagon face pieces and 5 triangular face pieces;   a third color of 1 pentagon face piece and 5 triangular face pieces;   a fourth color of 1 pentagon face piece and 5 triangular face pieces.   
     
     
         17 - 20 . (canceled) 
     
     
         21 . A mechanically moveable puzzle system for organizing different disordered faces of puzzle pieces that form an icosidodecahedron into one of several predetermined patterns, consisting of:
 a central metal ball;   twelve separate pentagon face puzzle tiles, each having a contiguous convex outer curved surface forming a pentagon, each having a lower facing magnet magnetically attached to and rotatable about the central metal ball, each outer curved surface of each outer surface of each pentagon face puzzle tile being one uniform color;   twenty separate triangular face puzzle tiles, each having a contiguous convex outer curved surface forming a triangle, each triangular tile having a lower facing magnet magnetically attached to and rotatable about the central metal ball, each outer curved surface of each triangle tile having one uniform color, wherein the twelve separate pentagon face puzzle tiles and the separate triangular face puzzle tiles mechanically attach to the central metal ball form an assembled sphere shape having a disorganized pattern of the twelve separate pentagon face puzzle tiles and the separate triangular face puzzle tiles;   a plurality of game plays to form an organized pattern in the sphere shape from the disorganized pattern, each game play consisting of solely rotating and counter-rotating complete hemispheres from the sphere shape of the twelve separate pentagon face puzzle tiles and the separate triangular face puzzle tiles, each of the complete hemispheres formed from different combinations of the twelve pentagon face puzzle tiles and the twenty separate triangular face puzzle tiles.   
     
     
         22 . The puzzle game of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 side grooves and side protrusions on the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces for interlocking and aligning the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces together, and preventing the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces from being dislodged.   
     
     
         23 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising the step of:
 providing side grooves and side protrusions on the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces for interlocking and aligning the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces together, and preventing the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces from being dislodged   
     
     
         24 . A mechanically moveable puzzle game for organizing different disordered faces of puzzle pieces that form an icosidodecahedron into one of several predetermined patterns, comprising:
 a central metal ball;   twelve separate pentagon face puzzle pieces with contiguous convex curved outer face surfaces, each having a lower facing magnet, each curved outer face surface of each pentagon face puzzle piece being one uniform color;   twenty separate triangular face puzzle pieces with contiguous convex curved outer face surfaces, each having a lower facing magnet, each curved outer face surface of each triangular face puzzle piece being one uniform color;   side grooves and side protrusions on the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces for interlocking and aligning the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces together, and preventing the the pentagon face puzzle pieces and the triangular face puzzle pieces from being dislodged,   wherein the lower facing magnets of the twelve separate puzzle pieces and the lower facing magnets of the twenty separate puzzle pieces magnetically attach to and are rotatable about the central metal ball, and all together form an assembled sphere shape of disorganized puzzle pieces; and   a plurality of game plays to form a selected predetermined pattern, each game play limited to rotating and counter rotating selected complete hemispheres of the sphere shape, each of the selected complete hemispheres formed from different combinations of the twelve pentagon face puzzle pieces and the twenty separate triangular face puzzle pieces.