can be opened if the pieces are arranged in the correct order application_number US 29644694 A description refer now to fig1 which is an overall drawing of a preferred embodiment of the invention the spherical rotating puzzle device 10 is comprised of two primary components consisting of thirty six sided pyramid shaped pieces 12 each having four sides a base and a top where the peak of the pyramid has been removed and eight five sided pyramid shaped pieces 16 each having three sides a base and a top where the peak of the pyramid has been removed the components are held together by a locking rail system such as the dove tail type illustrated in fig5 for the female 20 and fig6 for the male 22 fig2 further shows how the components 12 and 16 are connected by the male 22 and female 20 parts of the rail system this allows movement of the pieces around the three equatorial planes which are perpendicular to each other as illustrated in fig4 the rail 22 as shown is circumferential a set distance from the center of the sphere 10 the three inner faces 18 of part 16 as well as the rail 22 are bowed out slightly to.