History of Jigsaw Puzzles
It all started around 1760 by a man named John Spilsbury an engraver and a mapmaker. The first jigsaw puzzle was a map of the world. Spilsbury pasted a map to a piece of wood and cut out each country. Afterwards, teachers started using Spilsbury's puzzles to help students learned their geography lessons by putting the world maps together. Jigsaw Puzzles for adults emerged around 1900, and by 1908 a full-blown craze was in progress in the United States
Challenging Jigsaw PuzzlesBack then, jigsaw puzzles were much more difficult to solve. One of the reasons is that the pieces were cut exactly between the color lines, so there were no pieces with two colors to show which parts fit where. If that wasn't enough, the adult puzzles didn't even include a picture of the puzzles with them, so one could only guess how their puzzle should look like. The Name OriginWhen the treadle saw was introduced around 1885, the name jigsaw puzzles was given, although they were actually cut by a fretsaw, not a true jigsaw. In the early 1900, most jigsaw puzzles were made of wood and cardboard. Jigsaw Puzzles CrazeThe puzzles craze began around 1920-1930 when companies like "Chad Valley" and "Victory" in the UK and "Einson Freeman", "Viking" and others in the US started producing a wide range of affordable puzzles. |
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Online Jigsaw Puzzles Today
Jigsaw Puzzles are still very popular entrainment for all ages. The new trends are 3D puzzles and puzzles played free over the Internet or in the home computer. Kids still learn a lot from solving puzzles as they used to 300 years ago and that's why we introduce this free online jigsaw puzzles service, enjoy it...