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Benefits of Jigsaw Puzzles for Children

There are several benefits any child can avail of by playing jigsaw puzzles, in boxes or online games. There are 3  ways in which jigsaw puzzle can prove beneficial for children’s proper growth & development:

• Improves Hand – eye coordination: While playing jigsaw puzzles children learn how to observe the pieces and put them in the correct position. 
• Enhances Brain & Memory Power: Jigsaw puzzles are very beneficial in developing a child’s mental and logical behavior in their early stages. It is also helpful in developing manual dexterity. As children get older, he/she will be able to proceed to more intricate puzzle games. This will further help develop and improve their other skills such as vernacular and numerals. 
• Boosts morale: The successful completion of jigsaw puzzles presume a gratifying feeling in children. This in turn boosts a child’s morale and eventually children are motivated to play and finish more puzzles. Thus, they are also encouraged to move onto more complex puzzles. 

Types of Puzzles

Throughout the history there were created and developed various types of puzzles for mind training and memory development skills. These are the most popular ones:

• Logic puzzles using a chess board, such as Knight's Tour and Eight queens.
• Mathematical problems such as the missing square puzzle. Many of these are "impossible puzzles", such as the Seven Bridges of Königsberg, Water, gas, and electricity and Three cups problem. See List of impossible puzzles.
• Picture puzzles, such as sliding puzzles like the fifteen puzzle; jigsaws and variants such as Puzz-3D.
• Puzzle video game
• Sangaku
• Sokoban
• Spot the difference
• Tangram
• Word puzzles, including anagrams, crosswords, word-searches and ciphers.
• The Anagram Jigsaw is a jigsaw puzzle where pieces are rearranged for two correct solutions.

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First Jigsaw Puzzle Ever Created

Interesting Facts on Puzzles History

“Legpuzzel” is the dutch name for jigsaw puzzles and tangram-like puzzles.

Puzzel represents the most general word, encompassing logical puzzles, crosswords, mechanical puzzles and in general all kind of “problems” to solve.

On 18 october 1817 in Paris a booklet with the title “Le Casse-tête Chinois” was published and it was a copy of the English publication ” The Chinese Puzzle”.

In italy the etimology of word puzzles weas reflected in Rompicapo- Al Gioco Cinese chiamato il Rompi-Capo” was the title of an 1818 Italian publication.

The Spanish Rompecabezas is from some later date, probably introduced as Rompe-Cabezas as one of the titles of French export puzzles.

The German name Kopfzerbrecher has been used in 1891 as the name for the Anker tangram puzzle

“Chinese puzzles” became in the middle of nineteenth century the name for mechanical puzzles from Asia  - they were made in Japan or India.

Unlike word or jigsaw puzzles, mechanical puzzles are hand-held objects that must be manipulated to achieve a specific goal. These puzzles are often referred to as mechanical puzzles, brain teasers, 3D puzzles, mind benders, one person games, or just plain wooden games or wooden toys.

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