Object Details
maker
Kohner Bros., Inc.
Description
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.
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.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Sherman L. and Marjorie A. Naidorf
Date made
1967?
date made
ca 1967
ID Number
2005.0055.04
accession number
2005.0055
catalog number
2005.0055.04
Object Name
Puzzle
puzzle
Physical Description
plastic (pieces, tray material)
paper (instructions, box material)
Measurements
overall: 2.3 cm x 15.5 cm x 26 cm; 29/32 in x 6 3/32 in x 10 1/4 in
place made
United States: New Jersey, Elmwood Park
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Mathematical Recreations
Women's History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1292827