Disclosed are toy battle dart shooting gameplay environments supporting players' dart projectile hits or tags with detectable projectile devices, systems, and methods for resolving hits to a targeted player from a toy projectile during gameplay. In certain configurations interactive shooting battling provide arrangements are between players individually or within an arena architecture facilitated Targeted Player Hit Resolution via data communications with detectable projectiles and interactive shooting systems and methods.

A smart puzzle cube having prompting and recording functions includes at least four cubes (101), a central sphere body (4), and at least one conductive connector (8). The cubes (101) and the central sphere body (4) are securely connected by the conductive connector (8) via a mechanical connection, the cubes (101) are structurally connected to each other and rotatable, and puzzle cube layers formed by the cubes (101) rotate in both directions without limit. The conductive connector (8) includes a rotation detection module (10) that detects rotation directions and angles of the puzzle cube layers.

A cube puzzle solver includes: a position sensing element; at least one user interface (UI) output; and a controller that receives position information from the position sensing element, determines a suggested move, and directs the at least one UI output to provide an indication associated with the suggested move. An automated method of determining a position of a cube puzzle solver includes: monitoring a set of sense pins; identifying rotation based on a change in state of at least one sense pin; identifying a face associated with the identified rotation; and updating a state of the cube puzzle solver based on the identified face and the identified rotation. A cube puzzle system includes: a cube puzzle device including: a wireless communication interface; and a user device communicatively coupled to the cube puzzle solver over the wireless communication interface.

An interactive vending system includes at least one vending machine, at least one portable device, a management server and two routers. The first router is connected to the vending machine, thereby connecting the vending machine to the internet. The portable device is connected to the internet. The second router is connected to the management server, thereby connecting the management server to the internet.

A method of gradually revealing an image using cube puzzles is provided. A first image is divided into a plurality of blocks. Each block can have one or more arbitrary colors. A second image is then generated from the first image where each block of the second image corresponds to one or more blocks of the first image. The blocks of the second image are unicolor blocks with colors that are selected from one of the six colors of a cube puzzle. Groups of adjacent blocks of the second image with the same number of rows and columns as the sides of the cube puzzles are assigned to participants to match to the color of the blocks on the sides of their cube puzzles. Once each participant matches the colors of an assigned region on a side of the corresponding cube puzzle, the matched region is reveled to all participants.

An electronic toy vehicle track that abruptly stops selected cars along their path of travel based of their progress on the course. The abrupt stoppage can occur as a result of a vehicles position relative to other vehicles on the track, time duration on the track, traveling at too low of a speed for any period of time or combinations of such data or other data. A selected car may abruptly stop by such methods as crashing into an obstacle having a disruption in its lane of travel by something such as a collapsing bridge.

A crafting system for guiding a user in creating a craft, includes a crafting challenge repository storing a plurality of crafting challenges. The challenges each include instructions for creating a specific craft. A display surface can display the crafting challenges thereon. A controller includes instructions to receive a selection of a selected crafting challenge to be displayed on the display surface, and instructions to prepare a selected challenge for display on the display surface and to provide the prepared challenge to the display surface for display thereon. The controller is accommodated in a housing. At least one at least partially transparent crafting surface, may be removably mounted above the display surface such that when instructions of the prepared challenge are displayed on the display surface, the instructions are visible to the user through the crafting surface.

Interactive blocks with sensors for collecting information about how tactile objects are interacted with and with one or more communication interface for sending the interaction data to one or more other device or platform for analyzing the interactivity, providing feedback to a user, and assessing manual ability and dexterousness, cognitive ability, memory and retention, providing challenges based on past performance, learning curve, etc.

A sensing device, a ball shaft for smart magic cube, and a smart magic cube are provided. By optimizing the sensing device of the smart magic cube, only two circuit boards are needed to sense rotation states in six directions, thereby changing a current technology that requires setting PCB boards and sensors in each direction of the smart magic cube. The smart magic cube has a simple structure and is easy to assemble, which may reduce production costs.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of three-dimensional puzzles that implement image sensors to read signatures of individual shell segments to thereby determine shell segment patterns. Also disclosed are embodiments of systems that implement RGB sensors adjacent gradient color maps to provide contactless absolute position encoders.