Puzzle, Puzzle Picks
date: label: Date made
content: 1967?
label: date made
content: ca 1967
name: label: maker
content: Kohner Bros., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This set of puzzles consists of fifty-two (there are room in the box for sixty-four) small plastic sticks similar in size to toothpicks, as well as a leaflet giving eighty puzzles that involve starting with a given arrangement of "picks" and arriving at another arrangement. For example, one is given a row of five equal squares and told to "rearrange 4 picks to make 4 squares." The picks and puzzle book are in a cardboard box, but only the solutions to the first three puzzles are given.
label: Description
content: A mark on the box reads: KOHNER PUZZLE PICKS FASCINATING SOLITAIRE PUZZLE GAME BY THE MAKERS OF HI-Q. The instruction leaflet is copyrighted 1967.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Elmwood Park
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Teaching Math
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sherman L. and Marjorie A. Naidorf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0055.04
label: accession number
content: 2005.0055
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0055.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puzzle
label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (pieces, tray material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (instructions, box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm x 15.5 cm x 26 cm; 29/32 in x 6 3/32 in x 10 1/4 in