Jigsaw puzzles have journeyed from classroom tools to global pastimes, mirroring changes in technology, industry, and leisure. This mini‑site traces that story—from wooden “dissected maps” to cardboard mass‑market hits, all the way to digital puzzles you can play anywhere.
The appeal has stayed surprisingly constant: a calm challenge, a promise of order emerging from chaos, and a satisfying finale when the image locks into place. Yet every era added something new—better cutting tools in the nineteenth century, affordable cardboard in the twentieth, and bite‑size mobile sessions in the twenty‑first. Along the way, puzzles have been teachers, time‑fillers, social ice‑breakers, collectibles, and even art objects.
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