In which you need to create a mosaic from many fragments of a picture of various shapes.
In English, the separate word “puzzle” means a puzzle of any kind, not necessarily a mosaic.
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✪ ASSEMBLY PUZZLES: How to quickly assemble a puzzle
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Hello! My name is Andrey and I will tell and show you how to quickly assemble a puzzle. First, we will open the box with the puzzle and pour everything out of it. Now we will select from the total mass all the elements with a flat side and assemble a frame from them, after which we will sort our pile into several smaller piles with characteristic and expressed color, that is, let's sort it out by color, then you can start collecting parts of the whole by color or select the most characteristic elements of a face, symbols, small fish, birds or animals in the picture and collect them, and if after sorting it out into colors there is a small pile of neither this nor that you can continue assembling it from there and join parts with a pronounced color to these elements; after all the colored parts are joined with the frame, we get a completed picture and do not forget that in puzzles you need to pay attention not only to the colors but also to the shape of the elements especially joined lugs and lugs, corresponding to them, thank you for your attention. I wish everyone a good docking!
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According to one version, the London engraver, cartographer and publisher John Spilsbury was the first to come up with puzzles around 1760. He made a fascinating puzzle - he sawed a black and white paper geographical map, previously pasted onto a wooden base, along the lines of state borders. It was proposed to reassemble the map.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, puzzles were used as a teaching tool. The pictures that matched each other were not fastened together, but simply placed on the base.
At the end of the 19th century, the expensive wooden base was replaced with cheaper cardboard.
In 1909, the first factory production of puzzles with fastening parts was opened in the USA.
As a result of the mass production of puzzles, puzzles became cheaper, which increased the popularity of the game. To date, the production principle has remained virtually unchanged. The motif, printed on cardboard, is cut into many small pieces using a puncher.
In Russia in the 19th century, board games became very popular. Puzzles, which were called “puzzles” in the German manner, were no exception. Puzels consisted of no more than 100 parts and were more of a parlor entertainment. During the Soviet period, puzzles disappeared from store shelves, returning again at the end of the 20th century.
Types of puzzles
Currently, there are a large number of different types and modifications of puzzles. When collecting them, the goal is the same - to obtain a single picture from individual elements. Puzzles are divided by the size of the elements and the size of a single picture. The complexity of the puzzle within one number of elements is determined by the pattern, and the main criterion is the number of elements itself - the higher it is, the larger and more complex the puzzle.
The classic number of elements in a small puzzle is 54 (puzzles with approximately 260 elements are considered children's). The sizes of the puzzles range from small (about 50 cm²) to very large (several m²). For example, the standard size of a 500-piece puzzle is 47x33 cm.
There are large-sized puzzles made from a small number of elements especially for young children. Children's puzzles most often depict cartoon characters, or stills from cartoons.
Puzzles with more than 260 elements are aimed more at an adult audience. Accordingly, they can depict landscapes, erotic and fantastic scenes. There are puzzles with advertising pictures. Very large puzzles (over 6 thousand elements) usually depict scenes from the Bible, paintings by famous artists, and ancient geographical maps. They take quite a lot of time to assemble.
Nowadays the puzzle is a puzzle familiar to us since childhood. But have you ever wondered how it occurred to a person to cut a sheet of paper with an image into pieces, in order to then assemble it again and again, creating a whole picture?
There is a version that the very first puzzle was invented not for entertainment at all, but for teaching and testing the knowledge of students. And it was made not of paper or cardboard, but of wood. It was not technically possible to put a bright color design on the puzzle, so the students had to be content with a black and white image.
This happened in the sixties of the XVIII century in England. Member of the Royal Geographical Society John Spilsbury made a puzzle with which you could test your memory and assemble a geographical map from fragments. According to one version, it was a map of England and Wales, and according to another, it was a map of the world, which was cut along the borders of countries. John Spilsbury used thin panels of red cedar or Lebanese wood as the basis for his puzzles. Black and white engravings of maps were pasted onto them. The puzzle was quite expensive, but because of its novelty and originality it gained enormous popularity among both children and adults. The disadvantage of the wooden elements was that they were not firmly attached to each other and the finished picture could be easily destroyed by an awkward movement.
This teaching method was also supported by representatives of other sciences. They began to make the alphabet and multiplication tables in the form of puzzles. But soon the puzzle became not only a teaching tool, but also entertainment, so puzzles began to be created in the form of portraits and landscapes.
John Spilsbury received a patent for his invention and is officially considered the founder of this trend in the field of games and puzzles. But we cannot help but mention one more person who may have become the first inventor of puzzles. This version of the origin of the toy also relates to the pedagogical field.
Frenchwoman Jeanne Marie le Prince de Beauman was the manager of a private school in England. Madame de Beaumans was interested in various original teaching methods and, probably, it was she who came up with the idea of creating a puzzle. There is evidence that she promoted the method of teaching geography using geographical maps cut into pieces of various shapes. Thus, we can assume that John Spilsbury simply picked up the idea of creating a puzzle and brought it to the masses.
Be that as it may, the popularity of puzzles increased every day, and at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Parker brothers opened the Parker Brothers factory, which produced cardboard puzzles in large quantities. Unlike their wooden counterparts, the elements of cardboard puzzles fit together better and were cheaper.
Cardboard puzzles have not lost their popularity today. Their manufacturers compete with each other, trying to create something outstanding. For example, in 2010 in Germany, the Ravensburger company released a puzzle that consists of 32,256 elements. The puzzle is based on illustrations by artist Keith Haring. The puzzle is not a single picture, but 32 images independent of each other. Each fragment consists of only six colors. The assembled puzzle occupies an area of 5.44 x 1.92 m. Not everyone has the patience to assemble such a giant puzzle.
Bright puzzles never go out of style. Now you can even order a puzzle based on your own photographs and collect images, remembering the happy moments of your life. A puzzle always makes a good gift and is a great way to entertain guests.
Puzzle, puzzle game, accidentally invented by English cartographer John Spilsbury in 1766. He glued the map to the board, when suddenly it occurred to him that it could be cut along the borders of countries with a thin saw. Which he immediately did. This is how John Spilsbury created individual countries that formed a huge map. He brought his puzzle to the students to whom he taught geography. While collecting it, they studied geography with great pleasure.
First puzzle.
At the end of the nineteenth century, artistic puzzles were also created for adults. They instantly became a favorite pastime of high society. The puzzles were wooden and cut by hand. The puzzle elements did not have protrusions, so they were assembled differently than modern puzzles, but more cunningly.
These original and elegant entertainments of extraordinary beauty and exclusivity were used to surprise guests. Among wealthy people, puzzles were part of heritage and family traditions. At that time such puzzles were very expensive.
With the advent of cardboard puzzles and new production technologies, they have become cheaper. In the 20-30s of the twentieth century, puzzles became very popular game.
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Our language contains quite a lot of concepts and jargon that came to us from abroad. Most of them are quite clear and do not raise questions, but there are some whose meaning is hidden in the fog. Today we will talk about one more word, this Puzzle, which means you will read a little lower.
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So let's continue what does Puzzle mean?? This term was borrowed from English" puzzle", which can be translated as "puzzle", "difficulty", "perplexity".
Puzzle is a puzzle game that consists of a picture or photograph cut into many pieces. The point is that you need to connect the fragments of the mosaic so that the image becomes whole again
It is stated that such entertainment can improve imagination, memory, thinking, attention, etc. The game develops fine motor skills of the hands, perception, helps distinguish individual fragments, and allows you to correctly understand the connection between part and whole.
For the first time, puzzles appeared in England in 1761
year, they were invented by a map dealer from London, John Spilsbury. Initially, puzzles were part of educational material, when children had to assemble various geographical atlases from pieces.
John made mosaics for wealthy students, so he did not select the cheapest materials. He took black and white prints and glued them to a thin panel of mahogany and Lebanese cedar, then cut his piece into small pieces. fragments the most bizarre shape.
The price of such a new product was equivalent to the monthly salary of a London worker, and despite this price, Puzzle gained popularity.
In the 19th century, enterprising Americans learned to make puzzles Based on cardboard, as a result, these puzzles have become noticeably cheaper. Later, black and white drawings were replaced with color ones. However, this game gained its greatest popularity in the 20th century. This puzzle was played by both adults and children in the salons of Europe at that time; it occupied a place of honor.
As for Russia, this fashion has not spared our country. Before the revolution, this puzzle was called " Puzels", and it was imported from Great Britain.
By the way, this foreign product was very expensive at that time, so very wealthy people indulged in this entertainment.
Concerning USSR, then the industry did not produce them, however, this overseas miracle was available for sale, although it was in great short supply. The CMEA countries produced a lot of things on children's themes, including puzzles.
By the way, instead of those same puzzles, children of that time assembled cubes with pictures pasted on them, which was, of course, not an equivalent replacement, but also brought a kind of pleasure.
Many people, out of ignorance, call or compare a puzzle to a mosaic, but this is not true, and you should not do this.
What is the difference?
Mosaic is primarily a type of applied art; its creation requires multi-colored elements of bizarre shapes and non-standard sizes. They can be made of various materials, for example, glass, stone, porcelain, ceramics and others. And already connected and fastened together in any sequence, which at first glance do not suit each other, these elements turn into a mosaic. Secondly, it was only thanks to imagination and fantasy that a person put everything together, without even imagining at the beginning of the process what the final result would be. A puzzle is an already existing image, divided into individual elements that are intended to be assembled during leisure time. Therefore, you should not compare it with the great works of mosaics.
What are puzzles and who invented them?
A puzzle is a puzzle game with a picture, photograph or image of anything, consisting of several pieces that have connecting elements on two or more sides. In the 18th century, one very inventive teacher, to teach his students, without any applied material, glued a geographical map onto a wooden board, and then sawed it into many irregularly shaped pieces. Now, probably, there is no person who does not know what a puzzle is, but then this idea was unusual and was liked by the teacher’s students and colleagues, and later went beyond the student classroom, becoming a wonderful pastime for the aristocracy and a new trend in art during As time passed, the puzzles changed. During the 20th century, the puzzle gained widespread popularity. The more people became interested in this game, the more complex and colorful the puzzles appeared.
What are they?
In the modern world there are a huge number of games and fun for every taste, intellect and budget, but the puzzle does not get old and keeps up with the times, conquering new hearts. Now everyone has the opportunity to purchase a puzzle game depicting any painting, landscape, movie character, pet, or even family members. Various materials are used in the manufacture of puzzles - from the usual cardboard with a matte or glossy finish to three-dimensional figures made of plastic, plexiglass and ceramics. Colorful pictures can consist of four or six parts, or several thousand, with the smallest details drawn, which will delight true puzzle lovers. Volumetric puzzles are most often easy to assemble, but can vary in size and weight: from light, in the form of soft toys, to massive and heavy, in the form of ceramic decor. Modern technologies help in expanding the existing audience. Now you don’t have to think about what to do with the puzzle after assembly, or where to store it, because online puzzles with different levels of difficulty are available. Puzzles on a magnetic basis, which are perfectly attached to the outer surface of refrigerators, are extremely popular. They will decorate the interior of any home, remind you of wonderful moments in life or important dates, and will also become an indispensable assistant in the play and development of a child.
Collecting with your child
Puzzles for children are a godsend for any parent. A child may not be so diligent, calm, focused and enthusiastic in many cases, but collecting pieces into one big and interesting picture is one of them. You can put together puzzles with children from an early age; this will help develop the child’s motor skills and concentration, and help adults take a little break from everyday worries. This is the best way to spend fun time with your child at home. You can start assembling puzzles with simple images of animals or objects, studying their names together, and most importantly, the elements will not be dangerous, since they are quite large in size. At an older age, puzzles develop the child’s intellect and his After collecting the picture on his own, the baby will want to save it, which can be done together by putting it in a frame under glass or gluing it on a sheet of cardboard.
How not to make a mistake when choosing?
A puzzle is an interesting and original gift for a child and an adult. When choosing a puzzle game, you need to take into account the age and hobbies of the person for whom this gift is intended. For younger children, puzzles depicting their favorite characters with no more than 35 elements are best suited. For older children, you can choose a game with a large number of pieces, but for true puzzle lovers, puzzles with 3000 or more elements are suitable. The classic one is the image of geographical maps or reproductions of famous paintings, but now panels with velor or luminous coating, as well as three-dimensional puzzles in the form of globes, famous buildings and soft toys, are gaining popularity. If you find it difficult to choose a gift, then remember the puzzle. This is a game you don't grow out of.
