They’ve been a staple of entertainment since map engraver, John Spilsbury, created the first jigsaw puzzle in 1762. Mounting one of his master maps onto wood and then cutting around the countries, ...

For example, in McLeod’s personal puzzle-solving experience, “a 500-piece jigsaw is small enough to be spread out completely ...

Shots have been fired in the war on puzzles. The meat of this video is overcoming hurdles, like a rhomboidal gantry table, helping machine vision see puzzle pieces accurately, and solving a small ...

Click on an image below to play a jigsaw puzzle created from National Geographic’s iconic photography. Images are sourced from Photo of the Day and will update daily.

The author reads his story from the November 11, 2024, issue of the magazine.

After taking up the hobby during the coronavirus lockdowns, a Victorian doctor has taken her place among competitive puzzling ...

Enjoy a daily jigsaw puzzle. Choose the size of the puzzle you'd like to solve and reveal its image by applying your puzzle-making skills. The objective of Simply Jigsaw is to recreate a complete ...

Becca Taylor, Andrea Peng and their fellow jigsaw enthusiasts were ... she began completing multiple puzzles a day — logging hours at the table before and after work. “At the height of ...

These puzzles take a lot of room and the finished image ends up being 19.25 x 26.6 inches. Our table was about three feet — or 36 inches — wide which was enough to fit the whole frame but did ...