Patent ID: 11865464
Assignee: nan
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 19:
20. A system for solving a puzzle, the system comprising:
a game board in a tangible medium with tangible pieces including a set of pieces displaying labels in a set of labels used to track an order in which empty spaces of the puzzle are filled, wherein
(i) the game board has a set of spaces to display displaying cells of a given puzzle with a particular structure and configuration, including:
a. a given set of spaces corresponding to the cells of the puzzle;
b. a given set of distinct characters with which empty spaces in the given set of spaces of the puzzle may be filled, or associated, to solve the puzzle, where a space is non-empty if it is filled with a character from the set of distinct characters, and the puzzle is correctly solved when each space of the given set of spaces is filled or associated with one and only one character from the given set of distinct characters; and
c. a given set of rules, by which an empty space on the game board may be filled or associated with a character from the given set of distinct characters to correctly solve the puzzle, wherein said given set of rules is displayed on a display implemented as a tangible display or one or more virtual displays on a computerized device;

(ii) the tangible pieces include pieces displaying the characters in said given set of distinct characters with which the spaces of the given set of spaces may be filled or associated;
(iii) said set of labels which has a known sequential order is used to track an order in which empty spaces of the puzzle are filled in an attempt to solve the puzzle by the given set of rules provided for label association;
(iv) a secondary set of labels are distinguishable from, but with mapping corresponding to, the set of labels, for use in determining label associations for filling the spaces in the given set of spaces, which are displayed on the tangible pieces or which are displayed virtually on a computerized device;
(v) the set of rules for associating the set of labels or the secondary set of labels with the filling of an empty space of the puzzle are displayed on the tangible pieces or are displayed virtually on a computerized device; and
(vi) a display implemented as tangible media or virtually on a computerized device tracks the order in which empty spaces of the puzzle are filled in an attempt by the player to solve the puzzle, where for a given empty space the tracking comprises maintaining data including the following: the character filled, a step number at which the empty space is filled in sequential order of filling the spaces, a label associated with the filling of the space, and one or more of the secondary labels if utilized to determine the label.