Polycube Puzzle Known as Kolor Kraze
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: House of Games Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This thirteen-piece puzzle has twelve brightly colored plastic pieces that consist of two small cubes of different colors and one that consists of three small cubes. The small cubes come in nine colors, three of each color. They can be arranged as 3 x 3 x 3 cube. The goal of the puzzle is to have all nine colors showing on each face of the cube. This example of the puzzle is in a transparent plastic box which is too large for it. The box has no lid.
label: Description
content: The shape and number of the pieces in puzzles 2012.0091.06 and 2012.0091.07 are the same, although the coloring is different.
label: Description
content: The size, colors and arrangement of the puzzle corresponds to that of the Kolor Kraze puzzle copyrighted in 1970 by House of Games Corporation in Don Mills, Ontario, Canada.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans, <I> Puzzles Old and New: How to Make and Solve Them</I>, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986, p. 43.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Canada
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Judy Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0091.07
label: accession number
content: 2012.0091
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0091.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.4 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm; 4 1/2 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in