Puzzle game

Abstract

The present invention is an improved puzzle game where the puzzle game is composed of a plurality of removable pieces, each removable piece having at least one solution location, the improvement being means for retaining the removable pieces in the same general area of other removable pieces or the puzzle frame. The present invention provides a method of linking puzzle pieces to a frame and to other puzzle pieces, for ease of use and for storage.

1 . A puzzle game comprising: 
 a plurality of puzzle pieces, where each puzzle piece has one solution location relative to at least one other puzzle piece; and    means for restricting the location of each puzzle piece relative to the at least one other puzzle piece.    
   
   
       2 . The puzzle game of  claim 1 , 
 where the means for restricting the location of the puzzle pieces comprises a plurality of elongated flexible members, where each elongated flexible member is attached at one end to a puzzle piece.    
   
   
       3 . The puzzle game of  claim 2 , further comprising: 
 a puzzle frame, and    where the other end of the elongated flexible member is attached to the puzzle frame.    
   
   
       4 . The puzzle game of  claim 3 , 
 where the elongated flexible members are removably attached to the puzzle frame.    
   
   
       5 . The puzzle game of  claim 2 , 
 where the elongated flexible members are removably attached to the puzzle pieces.    
   
   
       6 . The puzzle game of  claim 1 , where the means for restricting the location of each puzzle piece maintains the puzzle piece in an area relatively proximate to the at least one other puzzle piece.  
   
   
       7 . The puzzle game of  claim 1 , where the means for restricting the location of each puzzle piece comprises 
 an aperture in each puzzle piece and    an elongated member capable of passing through the apertures.    
   
   
       8 . The puzzle game of  claim 7 , where the elongated member is a loop with a closure.  
   
   
       9 . A puzzle game comprising: 
 a puzzle frame;    a plurality of puzzle pieces, where each puzzle piece has at least one solution location relative to the puzzle frame; and    means for restricting the location of each puzzle piece to an area relatively proximate to the puzzle frame.    
   
   
       10 . The puzzle game of  claim 9 , 
 where the means for restricting the location of the puzzle pieces comprises a plurality of elongated flexible members, where each elongated flexible member is attached at one end to a puzzle piece.    
   
   
       11 . The puzzle game of  claim 10 , 
 where the elongated flexible members are removably attached to the puzzle pieces.    
   
   
       12 . An improved puzzle game, where the puzzle game is comprised of a plurality of puzzle pieces and a puzzle frame, the improvement comprising: 
 means for flexibly attaching the puzzle pieces to the puzzle frame.    
   
   
       13 . The puzzle game of  claim 2 , 
 where the means for flexibly attaching the puzzle pieces are removably attachable to the puzzle pieces.