Patent ID: 8398080

Claim:
A puzzle, toy or educational apparatus, the apparatus being in the form of an assembly of components, or an assembliable kit, to define: (1) an elongate support, (2) a number of individual pieces collectively forming a completely circumferential band about, and adjacent, the elongate support and the circumferential band being rotatable as a whole about an axis of said elongate support, and (3) at least one other circumferential band disposed about said axis, wherein there is a magnetic interaction (A) between at least one individual piece and an adjacent individual piece of a same circumferential band, (B) between said elongate support and at least one individual piece of said circumferential band, or (C) between both (i) at least one individual piece and an adjacent individual piece of a same circumferential band, and (ii) between said elongate support and at least one individual piece of said circumferential band, and wherein rotation of said rotatable circumferential band allows alignment or disalignment at least substantially parallel to said axis, of indicia of said rotatable band with indicia of said other circumferential band; the circumferential bands, when rotated about the elongate support, providing feedback to a user by a feedback mechanism, the feedback during movement of said at least one circumferential band provides at least one or more of the following outcomes: a sense of moving beyond an indexed position, and a sense of indexing to a desired or correct position, the feedback mechanism being located on, (a) opposing surfaces of said circumferential bands, (b) the elongate support and the circumferential bands, or (c) both the opposing surfaces of said circumferential bands and the elongate support and the circumferential bands.