Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some puzzles, though packaged in new trimmings, have been around for centuries, according to the exhibit...
...exhibit depicts a wide variety of puzzles. On display is a puzzle more sophisticated than the now-ubiquitous jigsaw puzzle, known as a "tangram." The tangram, though used in many disparate cultures, appears in more or less the same form throughout China, Japan and Europe...
Another puzzle that the exhibit depicts the long history of is the dexterity puzzle. This very simple puzzle--with four balls in a circular maze--caused a craze in the 1880s almost on the scale of the Rubik's Cube fad a century later. The object was to put the four balls in the center of the maze, or place the "pigs...
...exhibit details the chronology of these pieces. One puzzle, made in the image of the Atlantic Ocean, challenges players to put the "planes" of Lindbergh, Byrd, and Chamberlain into "hangars" located on the other side of the ocean. The puzzle pays tribute to the real-life race as to which of the three pilots would cross the Atlantic first...
...exhibit has jazzed-up Cubes, with pictures of E.T., world flags, Prince Charles, and even Chex cereal on the sides instead of colors. But the most challenging puzzle in the six-sided genre seemed to be the five-by-five-by-five cube, one of only 20,000 specimens ever made...