Puzzle Classification all Subclasses 2017
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EXAMPLES |
| DEX-UNCA |
Uncased Dexterities |
Cup & Ball, "Le Pendu", "Theo der Turnier", Tomy's "Crazy Maze", Puzzles using Tops |
| DEX-BALL |
Dexterity. Plain Balls into holes |
Pentangle "Roly-Poly" puzzles |
| DEX-OBST |
Dexterity with sundry obstacles &/or objects |
Ramps - bridges - jumping beans - etc. |
| DEX-LQOB |
Liquid objects |
Mercury manipulation |
| DEX-INLQ |
Dexterity in Liquid |
Water-filled puzzles |
| DEX-MIRR |
Indirect viewing by mirror |
Kohner's "Nervous Breakdown" |
| DEX-MECH |
Mechanised |
Tomy's "Pocketeers" |
| DEX-TOOL |
Using tools & magnetic tools |
Adam's 1940s "Fantom Puzzlers", Ayer's "Suffragette Puzzle" |
| DEX-RTFL |
Route following where the Dexterity greatly outweighs the routefinding. |
Superplexus. |
| DEX-PITF |
Follow a Path follow without falling into traps |
Farmer's "Silver Bullet" 1914 |
| DEX-HIDD |
Objects concealed from view |
Four Generations "Ball in Block", Engel's "Black Box" |
| DEX-ELEC |
Electrical & Electronic Dexterities |
Nombrex's "Crosso" 1950s, Nintendo "Game & Watch - Vermin" 1980 |
| DEX-PINB |
Pinball related dexterities |
Bagatelle |
| DEX-OTH |
Other Dexterities |
Pneumatic operation |
| DEX-REL |
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| RTF-CPLX |
Routefinding with Changing Path &/or Complex Traveller |
"Frying Pan"(changing), "Yankee"(complex), "Tandem Maze"(complex), "Bootlegger"(complex) |
| RTF-STEP |
Routefinding Step Mazes |
Ring & Hole mazes, "Pike's Peak" |
| RTF-UNIC |
Unicursal Routefinding |
Icosian Game, Konigsburg Bridges |
| RTF-ANY |
Route Mazes (any path) |
Most Hedge mazes, Mazes on surface of a cube, Ball in 4x4x4 cube of cubelets |
| RTF-OTH |
Complex Route Mazes with special objectives |
"Worried Woodworm", Colour Mazes, Number totalling mazes, avoiding objects, visiting places en route |
| RTF-REL |
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| TNG-RIGI |
Tanglement of Rigid & Semi Rigid Parts |
Wire PUZZLES, Cast "ABC", Chinese Rings |
| TNG-R&F |
Tanglement of Rigid & Flexible Parts |
Hess Wire puzzles, Dalgety's "Devil's Halo" |
| TNG-FLEX |
All Flexible Parts |
Leather tanglement puzzles |
| TNG-RING |
Puzzle Finger Rings |
Puzzle Rings, Puzzle Bracelets |
| TNG-REL |
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| OPN-BOX |
Opening Containers |
Boxes, Purses |
| OPN-LOCK |
Opening Locks |
Padlocks |
| OPN-HIDD |
Opening/finding Hidden Compartments not originally designed as puzzles |
Chippendale Tea-Chests, Poison Rings. |
| OPN-OTH |
Opening other objects |
Nut & Bolt, Knives, Pens, Cutlery, Oskar's Keys, Oskar's "Dovetail", "Hazelgrove Box" |
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| INT-BOX |
Boxes that disassemble |
Strijbos Aluminium Burr Box, Stickman's "Borg Box" |
| INT-CART |
Cartesian (Internal Parts along 3 mutually perpendicular axes) |
Burrs, Cutler's Burr in a glass, most plastic keychains, JWIP, "Nine of Swords" |
| INT-POLY |
Interlocking Polyhedral & other non-cartesian geometric shapes |
Coffin's "Saturn", Squashed burrs |
| INT-OTH |
Other Interlocking Shapes |
"Tak-it-Apart", "Plato's Plight" |
| INT-REL |
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| JIG-STD |
Standard Jigsaws |
Can include double sided puzzles, & jigsaws with holes & gaps |
| JIG-IDEN |
Jigsaws with identical pieces |
"Shmuzzles", Ceramic hexagons, Picture Cubes & Blocks |
| JIG-SLOP |
Jigsaws with non perpendicular/sloping cuts |
"Broken Heart", Japanese "Sabre Tooth Tiger" |
| JIG-LAYR |
Multiple layer Jigsaws |
Transparent Escher jigsaw |
| JIG-OTH |
Other jigsaws |
Stave variable picture, "Toyznet", Bilhourd's incomplete surfaces |
| JIG-REL |
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| ASS-CART |
Assembly of Cartesian Parts |
Pentominoes, Checkerboards, Polycubes, Soma, "Hoffman" cube, "Managon", "Even Steven", Squashed Soma, Laker Cube |
| ASS-STRA |
Straight Edge/Face Non-cartesian |
Tangram, T-puzzle, Triangular & Hexagonal polyominoes, 9-piece ivory cube |
| ASS-POLY |
Assembly Polyhedra & Spheres |
Ball Pyramids |
| ASS-OTH |
Assembly of other shapes |
Pack the Plums, Apple & Worms, "Phoney Baloney", Gears |
| ASS-REL |
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| PAT-EDGE |
Matching Edges &/or Corners patterns |
Heads & Tails, "Dodeca", Macmahon squares |
| PAT-STIX |
Patterns of sticks |
Match Puzzles, Jensen's "Tricky Laberint" |
| PAT-NUMB |
Arrangements of Number Patterns |
Magic Squares, Number Puzzles |
| PAT-SIMI |
Pattern arrangements of similar, points, pegs, or pieces according to predetermined rules |
Queens on Chess Board, Josephus, Waddington's "Black Box", "Instant Insanity", "Dodeca", Macmahon cubes, Bognar's "Planets" |
| PAT-DISS |
Arrangement of dissimilar pieces to make pattern according to predetermined rules |
"Testa", Skor Mor's "Instant Indecision", Chinese Balls in Ball, Waddington's "Kolor Kraze" |
| PAT-STAK |
Stacking, Overlapping & Weaving Patterns |
Stacking Transparent Layers, "Lapin", Loyd's Donkeys, Weaving puzzles |
| PAT-OTH |
Other Pattern puzzles |
Oskar's "Solar System" |
| PAT-REL |
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| FOL-SPRI |
Folding Springy wire and strips |
"Why Knots", Mobius Strips |
| FOL-HGOP |
Folding Hinged parts in Open chain |
Rubik's "Snake", Strung Cubes, Clinch Cube |
| FOL-HGCL |
Hinged Parts in Closed chain |
Flexagons, Rubik's "Magic", "Flexicube" |
| FOL-SHEE |
Folding sheets & strips |
Map Folding, "Jail Nixon", strip polyhedra |
| FOL-OTH |
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| SEQ-PLAC |
Sequential Placement |
"Psychic Puzzle", "Fit Puzzle" |
| SEQ-RIVR |
Sequential River Crossing |
"Wolf,Sheep & Cabbage" |
| SEQ-HOPP |
Sequential Hopping & Jumping. |
Solitaire, Tower of Hanoi, Counter & Peg moving puzzles |
| SEQ-SIMP |
Sequential Simple Sliding & Shunting (No group moves needed) |
15s puzzle, Tit-Bit's "Teasers", "Inversions" |
| SEQ-GRP |
Sliding & Shunting with Mechanical or Rotating parts (some Group moves NEEDED) |
"Tower of Babel", "Missing Link", "Backspin", "Turntable Train", Tomy's "Great Gears", Raba's "Rotascope", "Rubik's" Cube, "Orbit" |
| SEQ-ROLL |
Sequential Rolling |
Rolling 8 Cubes |
| SEQ-OTH |
Sequential Miscellaneous Mechanical |
"The Brain", "Hexadecimal", "Spin Out" |
| SEQ-REL |
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| JUG-STD |
Puzzle Vessels standard (built-in tubes to suck) |
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| JUG-CPLX |
Complex Vessels requiring special manipulation |
Gemma Patent 2006, Combination JUG-STD/JUG-BASE |
| JUG-BASE |
Vessels that pour from Base |
"Jolly Jugs", Thrift Cups |
| JUG-NLID |
Lidless Vessels (fill from base) |
Cadogan Teapots, Chinese winepots |
| JUG-OTH |
Other vessels |
Royale's "Self-Pouring" Patent, Spoutless winepots (hydraulic seal) |
| JUG-REL |
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| OTH-ELEC |
Electrical & Electronic (non-dexterity) |
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| OTH-BAL |
Balancing (non-dexterity) |
"Columbus Egg" |
| OTH-MEAS |
Measuring & Weighing Puzzles |
Jugs & Liquids, 12 Golf Balls, Archimedes Gold |
| OTH-CUT |
Cutting Puzzles |
Cork for 3 Holes, Five Squares Puzzle |
| OTH-WORD |
Puzzles applied to objects, the puzzle more usually found printed on paper |
Rebus, Anagrams, Riddles, Crosswords, Etc. (on Plates, Jugs, Loo Paper, etc.) |
| OTH-MATH |
Mathematical Puzzles (excluding number pattern arrangements) |
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| OTH-LOGI |
Logic Puzzles |
Cartoon pictures to arrange in order |
| OTH-TRIK |
Trick or Catch Puzzles (solution needs subterfuge) |
"Infernal Bottle", Some magic tricks |
| OTH-MAGI |
Magic & Conjuring Puzzles |
Self-working magic tricks |
| OTH-MYST |
Objects whose function or material is a mystery |
Whatsits, Wotsits, Creteco spacers |
| OTH-VIRT |
Puzzles whose existence is only theoretically possible. |
Such as 4d puzzles, or those which can ONLY be represented on a computer |
| OTH-SET |
Sets of Puzzles of Mixed Type |
Compendiums of mixed type puzzles |
| OTH-PEND |
PENDING CLASSIFICATION !! |
Puzzles awaiting classification |
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| AMB-POBJ |
Paradoxical Objects (Objects that apparently cannot be made) |
Arrow through bottle, Impossible Dovetails, Oskar's "Escher Puzzle", Penrose triangles. |
| AMB-VANI |
Vanishing Images |
"Vanishing Leprechauns", Hoopers paradox |
| AMB-DIST |
Distortions |
Anamorphic pictures |
| AMB-ARCH |
Archimboldesque Objects |
Pictures and objects of one subject made up from unrelated images or objects. |
| AMB-HIDD |
Hidden Image Pictures (no manipulation required) |
Devinettes (obscure outlines), "Spot the Difference", Random Dot Stereograms |
| AMB-HMAN |
Hidden Image Pictures (Manipulation Required) |
"Naughty Butterflys", "Find the 5th Pig", Needing coloured overlays, Soot on unglazed part of ashtray |
| AMB-TURN |
Pictures that require turning to show different images. |
Landscape turned to make a portrait, Topsey Turveys, OHOs, Courtship/Matrimony, Monk/donkey vesta |
| AMB-ILLU |
Perception Illusions |
Optical Illusions, Weight Illusions |
| AMB-REL |
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| EPH-SHAD |
Shadow effects |
Hold to light cards producing movements by shadows, Shadowgraphs, Wiggle-Woggle Hold--to-Light cards |
| EPH-HTL |
Images revealed by Holding to Light |
Protean Views, Hold to Light advertisements |
| EPH-MICR |
Images & words concealed by extreme smallness |
Micro printing |
| EPH-MOIR |
Effects produced by moire patterns |
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| EPH-HOLO |
Holograms |
Holograms of Puzzles solving themselves |
| EPH-ANAG |
Anaglyphs |
Requiring red & green glasses for either 3D or movement effects |
| EPH-STRP |
Strip Pictures (Different views from different angles) |
Framed strip prints showing 3 different views |
| EPH-OTH |
Other puzzle related ephemera |
Non-rebus heiroglyphics |
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| XXX-DEL |
Deleted Record |
Database use: - Removed from collection, sold or upgraded |
| XXX-XXX |
Lost records |
Database use: - Erroneously unallocated Acquisition number. |