Category: Puzzles

Where do the puzzles come from? The puzzles come from the maps. Or, put another way, the first puzzle was a map. John Spilsbury , a former apprentice of the royal geographer of the English crown, invented the world’s first puzzle around 1766. As a cartographer, he mounted one of his maps of Europe on a wooden board and saw the edges of each one very carefully. of the kingdoms. The idea was to use it for children to learn geography ; When assembling the pieces, students studied the bonds of union between countries. Entertaining as well as easy. Its occurrence became a fad and in just two years, Spilsbury had already put up puzzles for sale with the themes that he thought the parents of theEnglish high society : the world, the four continents (at that time only Africa, America, Asia and Europe were known), England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Little by little, the theme was diversified and also used to teach mathematical tables, genealogies or scenes from the Bible. The puzzles remained mostly a pedagogical tool until  1820 when they began to be sold as a game for adults as well . They stopped calling themselves “dissections,” […]

There you are, an almost finished puzzle in front of you and a lot of pieces to place on your right. The image that a few weeks ago could not even be intuited, now it appears almost completely before your eyes. This piece over here. This one with this side up here and finally the last piece! Placed. You have completed the puzzle! You smile with satisfaction for a few moments, you let that sense of challenge overcome you get in your head and then you panic. What do I do now with the puzzle? Dismantling it is NOT an option. In this post we are going to give you some tips that will be useful to you at this moment in your passionate puzzle story. Pay attention. The simplest thing is that you disassemble it (calm down, do it only in a few parts and large enough so that you can easily rebuild it later) and put it back in its box. You can put paper between the layers of the puzzle so that they do not stick together and, incidentally, add one of those bags of silica gel balls that you find inside the newly purchased shoe boxes; […]

In previous articles we have talked about the 10 fundamental reasons why children should do puzzles . The benefits that this activity brings in your cognitive development are very important. We also tell you why the puzzles are also a children’s game , in which we highlighted simple tricks so that the little ones become fond of this activity that has so many virtues. How to get kids to exercise their minds by puzzle Today we are going to tell how to get kids to exercise their minds by Puzzle them in order to maximize positive effects possible and ensure that small become fond puzzle ride throughout his life, because it’s not just a game children or young people, but increasingly have demonstrated their wonderful qualities to maintain agile and active neurons and prevent diseases such as Alzheimer’s in older people. Puzzles are a good concentration activity . Getting to fully focus attention on an activity is essential for the development of children, who are able to silence the mind and focus on the task they are doing. That is why it is perfect to assemble them from an early age, provided we choose the type of puzzle properly. Let’s […]