PUZZLE GAME "COLOURED BALL" Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A63F9/00 

FIELD: games.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to puzzle games and can be used as a game for developing logical thinking of people of any age. Similar puzzles are known, in which by means of transformations permitted by the game mechanism, an external colouring is changed, for example, "Motley Ball" puzzle (patent RU 2254896). Purpose of such games is to restore a given fixed colour of the figure. Objective of this invention is to expand the range of puzzle games. Puzzle game "Coloured ball", made in appearance of classic soccer ball, comprising inside electric power supply element, closed electric contacts, luminous elements of inner colour illumination of external semitransparent surface elements and electronic circuitry, which controls this illumination, in form of sphere, which is formed by twelve pentagonal and twenty hexagonal elements, where when pressing any pentagonal element made of dark opaque flexible material, under which closed electric contacts are located, all hexagonal elements made of white semitransparent material, immediately adjacent to the pentagonal element, on which pressed, simultaneously cyclically change the colour of its internal illumination. Puzzle game may represent a convex polyhedron formed by flat pentagonal and hexagonal elements. Outer surface of puzzle game may be formed by larger or smaller number of polygonal elements.

EFFECT: complexity of puzzle solving with possibility of its variation, improvement of its aesthetic attractiveness at various versions of solution, since in the given puzzle, the colour of the adjacent illuminated elements can vary arbitrarily and accordingly obtain a greater number of colour combinations in the game, which complicates the solution in the absence of a guessing algorithm.

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