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[img]http://media1.picsearch.com/is?q2uYULI_Yz2XQIs66OFtulhyuDUepcBuOoDUkQIH9_0&height=224[/img]The jigsaw puzzle
is among the oldest forms of entertainment and dates back for the late
1700s. The jigsaw has passed through many stages of improvement to become today's contemporary pastime.
Jigsaw puzzles possess a variety of makes use of, from entertainment to education to
physical and emotional therapy.

A Starting as an Educational Tool The forerunner from the modern jigsaw puzzle was invented in 1767 by John Spilsbury as a teaching
device to assist children to discover the geography of England and Wales.
It was a wooden map with no interlocking pieces. In fact, interlocking
pieces weren't introduced to jigsaws until significantly later, with the invention of saws that could reduce using the accuracy needed to
produce the interlock. From this inauspicious beginning via the 1800s, jigsaw puzzles caught on and grew as a popular
pastime.

Jigsaws: The New Preferred Parlor Game By the early 1900s the jigsaw
puzzle became each of the rage with adults in each the US as well as the UK.
As a result of the cost of creating these wooden puzzles, they have been mostly the domain from
the wealthy, and jigsaw puzzles started to rival bridge and lawn bowling as parlor games.
As puzzling grew, major game producers, including Parker Brothers
and Milton Bradley began to produce jigsaw puzzles.

Introduction of Shaped and Interlocking Pieces The popularity
of jigsaws inside the first decade in the 1900s lead Parker Brothers to begin to create puzzles with interlocking and shaped pieces.

Also about this identical time cardboard jigsaws started to become created by way
of die-cutting. Most manufacturers, however, stuck with creating wooden puzzles,
because the basic belief was that there was no market for inexpensive, cardboard puzzles.

Depression-Era Development of Jigsaws With all the advent in the Great Depression, demand for low-cost cardboard,
die-cut puzzles exploded. Households found that jigsawing was not only entertaining, but an excellent diversion from the stresses
of life. Also, when full, a jigsaw puzzle might be traded with a pal,
continuing the trend of low-cost entertainment.

A Increase from Marketing At this time, companies also began using puzzles for promotional giveaways with
numerous retailers providing a puzzle with a obtain. At the height of the depression, within the early 1930s, the "Jig in the Week"
was introduced and sold at newsstands. Several series became obtainable and being the initial to assemble that week's
puzzle resulted in bragging rights for the solver.
Economic woes and also the rise in reputation of low-cost
puzzles took its toll on the wooden puzzle makers, though some retained a loyal
following.

Introduction in the Customized Jigsaw Through the rise of cardboard puzzles a
brand new manufacturer, Par Puzzles, came into recognition. These hand-cut, finely crafted puzzles have
been created by brothers who catered towards the
affluent, including film stars and royalty.
Par's claim to fame was personalized puzzles, often cut with their owner's names
as pieces.

Today's Jigsaw Puzzles Because the height of recognition throughout
the depression, fascination using the jigsaw puzzle has ebbed and flowed.
Following Globe War II rising wages resulted in greater cost
and lower sales of wooden jigsaw puzzles. At this identical time,
improvements in printing and reproduction of
fine art on jigsaws resulted in increased sales of cardboard puzzled.

Right now, most puzzles are cardboard, but you will find a handful of
manufacturers nevertheless producing high-quality, wooden jigsaw puzzles for
children puzzles. A number of puzzles are now accessible, from irregularly shaped puzzles, to doubled-sided jigsaws to 3D jigsaws.
They continue to fascinate us and provide a way to bring folks with each other with
the common aim of getting the one who puts in that last piece.