A jigsaw puzzlesuch is its name in the English language, is a board game that consists of composing a certain figure by combining a certain number of pieces or bits in each of which there is a part of that figure to be formed.
Board game that consists of parts or pieces that make up a figure that must be assembled
The origin of this type of games goes back to beginning of the last centurythese were artistic puzzles for adults made of wood and cut by hand, which immediately became one of the favorite entertainments of the aristocratic class.
Origins of this game
In those days, it was a common situation to surprise the guests with these puzzles.
Around the first decade of the last century, a prominent North American toy manufacturer decided to dedicate all its production to these handcrafted wooden puzzles to which it added some rather attractive modifications: figural pieces and knobs.
The latter allowed the pieces to be assembled together, making the puzzle difficult to disassemble and offered the possibility for the pieces to take new forms. But the innovations in this sense would not stop, but rather over the course of the century it would rain in large quantities: irregular edges, false corners, among others.
Problem that requires great acuity to be solved due to the complexity it presents
Another use of the word puzzle refers to that difficult problem or riddle.
When we are faced with a complex situation, which has several facets, aspects, which are mixed, and which must be effectively resolved to restore balance, we speak of puzzles.
A crime investigation can be an ideal example of this, since many times, investigators must “put the pieces together” to solve the crime they are investigating.
For example, finding the murder weapon, accomplices, verifying alibis, analyzing the victim’s relationships, his environment and investigating everything that surrounds him, all these are components that appear isolated and that investigators must unite in a certain way in order to find the person. responsible.
The Magic Cube, a three-dimensional puzzle, booming in the 1980s and which remains hyper-current to this day
Rubik’s cube or magic cube is one of the most popular mechanical puzzles in the world and was invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik, in the year 1974.
The magic cube offers us a puzzle whose faces are divided into squares of the same color that can be changed in position. Its resolution is achieved by placing all the squares on each face of the cube with the same color.
Children and adolescents who grew up in the eighties found original fun in the magic cube, not to mention the mental agility that this unique puzzle demanded of them.
The extension of its use was certainly phenomenal with millions of magic cubes being sold around the world and to date it is considered the best-selling puzzle on the planet.
Now, we cannot ignore that although the furor of this game occurred at the time mentioned, it is still in force today, and the parents who were great players of the magic cube have known how to transfer the hobby to their children and in case It is that at present it continues to be marketed very well.
Of course, it does not arouse the same attraction as new technologies, but it continues to keep its magic and attractiveness.
The enormous impact of this three-dimensional puzzle made it win the award for best game of the year in the puzzle category in 1980, of course.
For those who do not know it, which certainly must be few, the magic cube is made up of six colors, classically white, yellow, green, orange, blue and red, and structurally it moves through a sophisticated mechanism of axes that makes it easy for each face to rotate. independently, thus mixing the mentioned colors.
The resolution of the puzzle is precisely to return to each face having the same color.
In any case, there are variants in its composition that have been the result of the tributes paid to the puzzle on its 25th and 30th anniversary.
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