Overlapping rotatable disc type puzzle

Claim 1

A puzzle toy, comprising: (a) a housing having only five circular compartments having respective centers, each compartment having a radial dimension that is identical for all the compartments, three of the compartments being successively arranged in a tangential relationship along a first linear row with the centers of said three compartments lying on a first common centerline, the remaining two of the compartments being successively arranged in a tangential relationship along a second linear row with the centers of said remaining two compartments lying on a second common centerline, said first and second centerlines being parallel to each other and spaced apart by said radial dimension along a transverse direction, said centers of said two compartments of said second row being spaced apart by said radial dimension along a longitudinal direction normal to said transverse direction relative to the centers of said three compartments of said first row, each of said two compartments of said second row overlapping a pair of said three compartments of said first row at common oval areas; (b) a plurality of manually turnable actuators, each mounted in a respective compartment for turning movement in either circumferential direction about a turning axis that is coincident with a respective center of the respective compartment, each actuator having four oval pockets, each pocket being of identical size to that of said respective oval areas; and (c) a plurality of oval toy elements, each mounted in a respective pocket of a respective actuator, said toy elements including a first group, each having a single arc-shaped colored strip on an upper surface of a respective element of said first group, and a second group, each having a pair of oppositely curved arc-shaped dual-colored strips intersecting at both opposite ends thereof on an upper surface of a respective element of said second group.