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Puzzles, Word Searches, Quizzes, and Other Games - Interesting Facts
Jigsaw Puzzles
(Not part of Puzzle & Game World, yet!)
- John Spilsbury is the person credited for inventing the first jigsaw puzzle in 1767.
- The first puzzles where made from wood.
- The first puzzles where made by European mapmakers.
- Jigsaw puzzles were originally made for children and used for educational purposes.
- Puzzles used to be very expensive. This changed with the introduction of cardboard puzzles.
- Jigsaw puzzles became very popular among adults in the early 20th century.
- The sales of puzzles reached a peak in the early 1930’s when they started selling into the millions.
- Today, puzzles can be found in all sizes, with the 500 and 1000 piece being the most popular.the
Word Searches
- Norman Gibat is the person credited with creating the first word search about 50 years ago.
- Word searches became very popular with teachers as it is as great educational tool.
- Word search puzzles are especially good in helping to teach foreign languages.
- They are sometimes also known as word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle.
- Some word search puzzles have secret messages hidden inside the word search.
- Some word search puzzles are solved using a trivia question.
- The toughest word search puzzles to solve is usually those without any clues or given words.
- Today, word searches can be found in newspapers & magazines, but also in book format, or available as digital downloads and online.
Quizzes
- James Daly is the person credited with introducing the word ‘quiz’ into the English language.
- The first radio and television game shows was both broadcast in 1938.
- Chris Haney and Scott Abbott created the popular quiz board game, ‘Trivial Pursuit’ in 1979 in Montreal, Canada.
- The popular electronic quiz game ‘Buzz’ was introduced in 2005 on the Playstation console.
- Quiz games are very popular in schools as it is both entertaining and educational.
- A pop quiz is a quiz where the students do not have any time to prepare.
- The largest quiz ever had 2,280 paticipants.
- Personality quizzes, made up of multiple-choice questions, does not have a right or wrong answer.
Other Word, Number, and Puzzles Games...
Word, number, and other quiz games are very popular because they are both educational and entertaining. A few more examples of popular games are:
- Sudoku
- Dominoes
- Crossword Puzzles
- Scrabble
- Boggle
We will attempt to add more content to Puzzle & Game World (Hard cover books will follow soon).
About Us
At Puzzle & Game World we create fun and interesting Word Search, Sudoku, Crossword, and other Puzzle Books (Available on Amazon.com), and Etsy downloadable Word Search, Puzzle, Quiz, and other Puzzle pages (Available on Etsy.com). We now also have a Youtube channel, with Quiz Puzzles, Word Puzzles, and Number Puzzles. So come on over and enjoy playing the puzzles with your friends or family.
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