Type-5: SEQUENTIAL MOVEMENT PUZZLES

These are puzzles that involve a series of moves or rotations to solve. The most famous of these is Rubik's Cube. They are grouped into 5 categories: 
  (a) Solitaire: These are puzzles that play like a game, but you
        play by yourself.  Typically, they are games where you jump
        pegs over other pegs and try to leave one remaining.
  (b) Sequencer: These are puzzles on which you have to perform a
        sequence of moves to solve.  Usually, you know what the
        moves are but have to figure out the proper order in which
        to make them.
  (c) Sliding Block: Your classic sliding block puzzle is a flat
        square with space for 16 (4x4) little squares, but leaves
        one of the 16 empty.  You have to slide the other 15 around
        (you can only move one at a time) until you arrange them
        to make a picture or something.  There are many variaions
        on this, but the idea is usually the same.
  (d) Rotating Shape: This is where Rubik's cube fits in.  These
        puzzles are usually cubes, pyramids, spheres, or something
        geometric, and you usually have to rotate them to get colors
        or numbers lined up.
  (e) Maze & Route: These are puzzles that involve a maze.


TYPE-5-A: SEQUENTIAL MOVEMENT PUZZLES, Solitaire
Picture TITLE MANUFACTURER DESCRIPTION
Solitaire Pressman Jump pegs & leave 1 of 32 remaining
Hi-Q Kohner Jump pegs & leave 1 of 32 remaining
Puzzle-Peg Lubbers & Bell Mfg Co Jump pegs & leave 1 of 32 remaining & other challenges
Unknown (5a-1) (unknown) Jump pegs leaving 1 of 20 remaining
Think & Jump Pressman Jump pegs & leave 1 of 36 remaining
Solo Edibauer Jump pegs leaving 1 of 9 remaining
Test Your IQ Invicta Games Jump pegs leaving 1 of 14 remaining in triangular tray
IQ tester Venture Mfg. Co. Jump pegs & leave one remaining
Zodiac IQ tester Venture Mfg. Co. Jump pegs leaving last of 12 pegs in your zodiac sign
Hoppers Binary Arts 40 challenges for jumping with frog-shaped pegs
Double Diamond Setko Jump 16 set-screws from top-left to bottom-right
Bandits of Natchez Trace Parris Manuf. Co. Get all 6 pegs to the other side
Swap Squares Venture Mfg. Co. Swap positions of the 8 blue and 8 white pegs
Tric-Trac Venture Mfg. Co. Fill 7 of 8 holes with pegs
Turn about peg Drueke Blue Chip Swap positions of 9 green with 9 red pegs
Re-stack'em Parris Manuf. Co. Re-stack the 9 disks on one of the 3 pegs
Pagoda Puzzle Tower Bits & Pieces Re-stack the 5 Pagoda tiers on one of the 3 squares
Tree Puzzle Drueke Games Re-stack the 8 blocks on one of the 3 pegs
Shuttle Puzzle Berea College Ind. Swap positions of 4 green and 4 black marbles
River Crossing Thinkfun.com Find path across river - 40 variations
Jumper Gantt's Wood Things Swap positions of 4 red and 4 white pieces
Think Through Pressman Arrange 16 plastic squares to make a continous path
Starburst (unknown) Place pegs in holes according to rules & fill 7 out of 8 holes



TYPE-5-B: SEQUENTIAL MOVEMENT PUZZLES, Sequencer
Picture TITLE MANUFACTURER DESCRIPTION
Spin Out Binary Arts Remove plastic center piece w/ 7 knobs
Hexadecimal Puzzle Binary Arts Remove wooden center piece by sliding & changing 4 levers
Brain Puzzle Mag-nif Slide all 8 sticks to outside of plastic disk-shaped puzzle
Rubik's Clock Matchbox Make 9 clocks line-up
Orderly Fashion Bits & Pieces Exchange beads byh sliding across rotating dowels
Luminations Random House Tilt plastic pyramid to make colored lights come on
Devil's Needle World Wide Games Remove needle from 7 rings on wood/leather base
Jiu Lian Huan Eng's IQ Co. Ltd Hook the plastic & metal sword onto the 9th ring
Brainbuster Winray Products, Inc Hook the plastic sword onto the 9th ring
Tsukuda's Square Gabriel Arrange numbers 1-16 by manipulating 5 buttons
Rack'em Up Tomy Move levers/tilt to line-up colors
Waiter's Tray Bits & Pieces Slide wood piece out by manipulating 6 bottle-shaped pieces
Hidden Corridor Constantin Puzzles Slide wooden pieces to get the ball out



TYPE-5-C: SEQUENTIAL MOVEMENT PUZZLES, Sliding Block
Picture TITLE MANUFACTURER DESCRIPTION
(various pictures) (various) Arrange tiles to make picture (spiderman, lion, USA map, etc)
(3-D pictures) (various) Arrange tiles to make 3-D picture (dinosaur, toad, etc)
1-15 puzzle (various) Arrange numbers 1-15 in 4x4 tray
14-15 puzzle Sam Loyd Arrange numbers 1-15 (impossible due to 14/15 being swapped)
1-8 puzzle (unknown) Arrange numbers 1-8 in 3x3 tray
1-20 puzzle (unknown) Arrange numbers 1-20 in 3x7 tray
Popeye The Roalex Co Make 4 popeye characters in various collumns (some not possible)
Unknown (5c-1) (unknown) Make as many words as you can across and/or down
CrossWiz Playball American Publishing Do crossword (hints on the back) & slide blocks to match
CrossWiz ComicCap American Publishing Do crossword (hints on the back) & slide blocks to match
IQ Colour Printing Ltd Arrange so only 1 of each symbol per row/collumn
Tricky Arrow Norsk Move arrow to bottom by sliding wooden blocks
Dirty Dozen Square Root Co. Slide wood blocks to get square out (12 starting positions)
Square Root Square Root Co. Slide wood blocks to get square out
Magnetic Square Wm. F. Drueke & Sons Slide wood blocks with magnets to get square to opposite corner
Flying Puzzle Repro. J.W. Lorbek Jr. Move "plane" block from NY to Paris
Two Sliding Squares Serhiy Grabarchuk Re-arrange blocks so medium/small blue square is just 1 big square
Mint Man Kelrack Ltd. Slide blocks to get mints out
Free Throw University Games Get basktball out by sliding large square piece to bottom
Pepsi puzzle bank Made in China Sliding block shaped like a pepsi can, 39 tiles
$100 cup Express Yourself Inc Sliding block $100 bill on a cup
Traffic Jam Binary Arts Move trucks & cars off of board; cards show starting positions
Stormy Seas Binary Arts Slide boats out; cards show starting positions
Work-or-Golf Binary Arts Interchange words WORK & GOLF
Slide Master Dan Gilbert 2-level sliding block w/dogs, bones, etc
5 piece Sliding Puzzle Puzzle makers Inter. Get wooden square into 4-piece wooden frame
The Slider Bits and Pieces Get metal square into 4-piece metal frame
Roadside Rescue Binary Arts Move cars & rescue trucks off board; various start positions
Fancy Squares Puzzle Puzzle makers Inter. 9 wooden blocks with 4 start positions
Sliding Beetle Bits and Pieces 8 odd-shaped wood blocks in square wood tray
Unknown (5c-2) (unknown) 9 wood blocks in square wood tray
Solitaire? (unknown) Arrange cards in order, like the solitaire game (I think)
On The Green SiamMandalay.com Slide blocks to remove ball from the square "tee" piece




TYPE-5-D: SEQUENTIAL MOVEMENT PUZZLES, Rotating Shape
Picture TITLE MANUFACTURER DESCRIPTION
Rubik's Cube Ideal Toy Corp. 3x3x3 cube, get all sides same color
Rubiks Mini Cube OddzOn Inc 2x2x2 rubik's cube
Rubik's Revenge Ideal Toy Corp. 4x4x4 rubik's cube
Rubik's Professor Seven Towns Ltd. 5x5x5 rubik's cube
Rubik's Cube Ball Ideal Toy Corp. Spherical version of 3x3x3 rubics cube
Rubiks UFO Seven Towns Ltd Align colors on Flying Saucer
Rubiks Wood Cube Winning Moves Games 30th anniversary wooden classic cube
Rubiks World Winning Moves Games 4x4x4 rubics cube shaped like a globe
Rubiks Cube Calendar Ideal Rubiks cube perpetual calendar
Rubiks Touch Cube Techno Source Electronic version of classic cube
Taz Puzzle Head Bits & Pieces 2x2x2 Rubiks cube shaped like Tazmanian Devil
Tweety Puzzle Head Bits & Pieces 2x2x2 Rubiks cube shaped like Tweety's head
K-Brain DaMert Company 2x2x2 Rubiks cube shaped like a brain
Sudoku on a cube Westminster 3x3x3 Rubiks cube with digits 1-9 on faces
Quble Geospace 3x3x3 Rubiks cube with letters to play word games
Mirror Cube Hawthorne Direct LLC Asymetric rubics cube with a single color
The Void Puzzle winning-moves.com Rubiks cube with hole in middle (no center pieces)
Quad Cube TDC games 4 co-joined 2x2 rubics cubes
Floppy Cube I-xun 1x3x3 rubiks cube
Puzzle Pen (unknown) Pen with 6-sided sliding colored tiles
Wooden Twister 1A Spilury Puzzle Co. Wooden twisting sphere with 4 different colored balls
Wisdom Ball Chiao-chih Research Spherical with 6 different colored circles x 8 nums
Babylon Tower R.O.C. Taiwan Get beads in each of 6 columns same color from lightest to darkest
Whip-it LJN Toys Get square-beads in each of 6 columns the same color
No. 5205 Lakeside 3x3x3, get like-color marbles across each row
Vadasz cube Island Communic. LLC 2x2x2 cube, slide blocks / match colors
Unknown (5d-2) Bloomingdales Group the 4 white & 4 red balls together
Spinning Drum www.SiamMandalay.com Rotate disks to align colored marbles in 4 columns
The Orb (unknown) Rotate segments of orb to get like-color beads together
Brainstring Original Recenttoys Int'l Interchange colored string ends in cube
Brainstring Advanced Recenttoys Int'l Un-knot the colored string ends in rhomboid
Masterball Made in Singapore Manipulate black & white orb to make solid color on each side
Back Spin Binary Arts Disk with 6 groups of colored balls on each side
Gripple M-squared 4x4 set of colored pieces on 5 spinning circles
Unknown (5d-3) (unknown) 2x2 square, get all purple squares on top, all green on botom
Gear Ball Meffert's/RecentToys Twist ball full of gears & make colors line up
Alexander's Star Ideal Toy Corp. Get all sides same color, star shaped
Mobius Line Toys & Games Intern. 12 sides rotate to make continous loop
Missing Link Ideal Toy Corp. 3-D sliding block, Restore all 4 chains
Mefferts challenge Pressman Manipulate ball to get 4 solid colored rings
Pyraminx Tomy Get all 4 sides of pyramid same color
Tricky Disky Tricky Puzzles Ltd Match colors/symbols on disk with 4 spires
COMBO David Ayers Hex shaped, align colors/#s on 6 sides
Smart Alex 2 MCH FUN Cube with 4 hex pieces that rotate
Square 1 Irwin Toy Ltd Like rubics cube but turns at angles too
Q7 Super Square 1 The Paragon Group Like Rubiks cube but round center odd shapes & 4 layers
Ivy Cube D-Fantix Rotating cube w/ 45-degree oval shapes in side
Inversion Puzzle Toys & Games Intern. Slide cubes in frame to reverse red/blue faces
Skewb Pressman Cube separated into rotating diamonds & triangles
Calendar bank (unknown) Bank with colored pips showing days of the month
Round Column puzzle Lanlan 2x3x3 rubiks cube shaped like hockey-puck
2-Layer Cylinder Dian Sheng Toys 2-layer cylindrical Rubik's Cube
Rubik's Tower Winning-Moves.com 2x2x4 Rubiks Cube
Brain Twist puzzle Hoberman Flip & Twist pyramid to match colors on sides
Tank Diamond Cube DianSheng/Tridiz 14-sided; rotates like a rubiks cube
Cuboctahedron J.A. Storer Rubic's cube with angled edges; 14-sided
Mini Pyrastar Recent Toys Twist to get solid colors on each of 8 triangular edges
Unknown (5d-4) (unknown) Bracelet with 8 colored segments
Puzzle Ball Chenghai Yagao Toys Move colored balls inside soccer-ball to match holes
Rubiks shells OddzOn (Hasbro) Group the colored balls in the tubes by twisting
Puzzler Avenger Go Images, Inc. Group all 5 colors together in the 2 rotating circles
Turnstile Binary Arts Group all 5 colors together in the 2 rotating circles
Top Spin Binary Arts Arrange numbers 1-20 in oval; circle reverses 4 numbers
Triple Cross Binary Arts Align dome & 3 dots by sliding pieces
SwitchBack Binary Arts Line up purple & blue balls in grid
Lockout Tri-Tec Industries Giant lock; set switches to change puzzle solution
Cross Teaser DaMert Co, Auburn WA Disk with rotating color crosses
Rubiks Rings Pocket Puzzles Get like-color balls together in 2 intersecting angled circles
Hungarian Rings Starcrest Get like-color balls together in 2 intersecting flat circles
Atomic Chaos University Games Move balls thru tubes & rotate halves to get like colors together
Spectra Eng's IQ Co. Ltd Align disks so like colors touch in a row
9 Ball Puzzle Binary Arts Get 9 billiard balls in order in circle
8 Ball Puzzle Binary Arts Get 8 billiard balls in order in 2-row tube
Megamix (unknown) Rotate plastic disks to spell words
QBoid Brainwright/D.Pitcher Rotate 2x3 oval shape to make colors match
Grecian Computer ProjectGeniusInc.com Rotate 4 dials so all 12 columns add to 42
Brain Storm United Pacific Desgns Slide squares & rotate 3 rows to get all columns in same color
Venus Cube Puzzle Master Inc. Basically a 3x3 rubiks cube, but with odd shaped edges for easy turning
Pocket Cube Puzzle Master Inc. 2x2 cube with smaller 2x2 cube embedded
Aztec Ghost Tower ProjectGenious.com Get same-colored balls in each column of wooden puzzle




TYPE-5-E: SEQUENTIAL MOVEMENT PUZZLES, Maze & Route
Amazers Tilton Toys Ltd Get ball thru maze by tilting & turning plastic cover
Bilz Box T.E. Brang, Inc Remove bill by moving ball thru plastic maze
Maze Reiss Plastic cube with maze on each side for metal ball
Minute Maze Mag-Nif Get ball thru plastic maze before hourglass expires
Money Maze bank Mag-nif Inc Guide ball in plastic cube maze to open bank
3-D Maze Puzzle (home made) Remove ball from wood block; from book "Creative Puzzles of the World" bank
Arungo Little Harbor Move metal clip thru maze in wooden dowel rod lattice
Coast to Coast Binary Arts Move car from NY to LA in metal USA map
Celtic Maze Bits & Pieces Remove ring from metal celtic shape with notches
Thread the Maze Blue Opal Thread cord thru all holes in cardboard picture; follow 2-sided path
Unknown (5e-1) (unknown) Remove wood nut from wood screw by folling maze
Oskar's Cube Oskar van Deventer Move 6-spire cross through maze in plastic cube
Wurmm RecentToys International Remove curly worm from flat plastic apple
Maze Ball Game Chiaote, R.O.C. Sliding-block puzzle that creates a maze for a ball
Unknown (5e-2) Tilton Toys Ltd Get ball thru maze by tilting & turning plastic cover
Medallion Maze Bits & Pieces Put ball in one hole, out other in metal disk
Gift Card Maze Creative Concepts USA Move ball thru plastic maze to open & get gift card
Leaf Worm Maze Bits & Pieces Move worm across wooden leaf
16-to-1 puzzle Bits & Pieces Cast Iron; Remove U-shape from ring with 2-sided maze
L'oeuf Hanayama cast puzzle Separate 2 flat egg-shaped pieces with mazes
Smart Egg University Games Move stick through the egg-shaped maze
Puzzlerz Creative Concepts USA Move disk thru plastic maze with 3 knobs to release gift-card
The Magic Wand Fascinations Move ball to top of sand-filled plastic wand
Maze Pens (unknown) Plastic pens with mazes to get balls through
Synapse The Orb Factory Get ball thru route by twisting wooden blocks
Star Trek Howard R. Swift Move ring from edge of disk to center
Flower Maze Bits & Pieces Tilt & invert maze to get the ball out
Double Trouble Constantin Puzzles Rotate 2 gears to get 2 balls out of the maze
Wooden Double Maze Bits & Pieces Move the ball thru the 2-sided maze


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