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International Puzzle Day

This day celebrates puzzles of all types - jigsaws, riddles, science, maths, mechanical, and word puzzles, and of course, real life puzzles.

Puzzles are problems that are difficult to solve or require special skills to resolve. 

For example, crosswords, word search, and anagrams put a person's vocabulary and skills with a language to test. Games like Sudoku and Rubik's Cube, on the other hand, test the player's logical thinking and mathematical skills. Jigsaws develop patience, visual skills and TEMPER !

Health

In addition to being entertaining and fun, puzzles have distinct health and social benefits, especially in early childhood. 

Collaborative puzzles help children learn how to work together while learning other spatial, motor, and problem-solving skills. Studies have shown that doing puzzles can help enhance brain activity in adults. It also increases creativity and concentration, and it improves memory.

Did You Know…

That the world’s first crossword was published on December 21, 1913 in the Sunday newspaper, New York World. The puzzle was created by journalist Arthur Wayne. He was born in Liverpool, emigrated to the US and played violin in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the origin of the word ‘puzzle’ is a bit of a puzzle. But the verb ‘to puzzle’ seems older than the noun ‘puzzle’.

The oldest known puzzle is a dissection of a square mentioned by Archimedes around 250BC. Archimedes asked how many solutions there were. The answer of 536 was only found in 2003.

Jigsaw puzzles were invented by the English mapmaker and geographer John Spilsbury in 1760.

A 40,000-piece jigsaw was completed by Dave Evans in April 2013, but it collapsed the next day.

 A 1,141,800-piece puzzle was put together by 15,000 people in Ravensburg, Germany in 2008.

The world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube puzzle is 5.5 seconds.

There are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible solutions to sudoku puzzles.

Over 15 million Professor Layton puzzles have been sold. The Prof’s first name is Hershel.