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Free Online Jigsaw Puzzles: Make the Pieces Fit
Improve your mind, create a pretty picture and learn new facts with a jigsaw puzzle. Not just a great way to pass the time on a rainy day, research has shown that putting together jigsaw puzzles helps to keep the mind sharp over time and delay or even altogether prevent the onset of dementia.
- Exercise your mind with challenging puzzles.
- Put the pieces to create beautiful pictures.
- Educate with different facts related to the picture.
The Birth of Jigsaw Puzzles: From an Educational Fad to a Worldwide Phenomenon
The London mapmaker John Spilsbury was the inventor of the jigsaw puzzle game, which was introduced in 1760 as a tool to help children learn geography.
Spilsbury mounted a map on a wood board and then cut it into pieces. A hundred years later the first cardboard jigsaw puzzles were invented, and that format remains immensely popular to this day.
Jigsaw puzzles really caught on during the Great Depression because:
- Low cost relative to the hours of fun it offered.
- Jigsaw puzzles came in all shapes and sizes.
- It helped improved knowledge.
ProProfs Jigsaw Puzzle Instructions
To solve the word searches made on ProProfs, follow the following instructions:
Click and drag pieces to place them in the puzzle.
Correct pieces when placed together will join together.
Continue dragging pieces until the puzzle is finished.
The faster you finish the puzzle, the higher your score will be.
Solving Jigsaw Puzzles: Tips to Help You Finish that Puzzle in Record Time
Whether it has few pieces or a great many, solving a jigsaw puzzle can harder than it looks. Here are some tips to help you solve these puzzles:
Separate All the Pieces:
The pieces will originally be piled on top of one another, making them hard to see. Dragging the pieces apart from one another will help you see them better and help you decide where they belong.
Match Pieces to the Outline on the Screen:
Each jigsaw puzzle will be solved within a square or rectangular frame. There will be outlines in the frame (if grid setting is on for the puzzle) that will help you decide where the pieces go.
Study the Picture:
Each puzzle will have a picture that shows you how the jigsaw will look when it is solved correctly. Study the picture intently because that will help you know which pieces to look for when you are doing each section of the puzzle.