A jigsaw or puzzle, such is its name in the English language, it 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 consisting of parts or pieces that make up a figure that must be assembled
The origin of this type of game dates back to beginning of last century, were artistic hand-cut wooden puzzles for adults, 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 guests with these puzzles.
Towards the first decade of the last century, a prominent North American toy manufacturer decided to allocate all its production to these handmade wooden puzzles to which it added some quite attractive modifications: the figurative pieces and the knobs.
The latter allowed the pieces to be assembled together, making the puzzle not easily disassembled, and they offered the possibility for the pieces to adopt new shapes. But the innovations in this sense would not cease but with the passing of the century it would rain in great 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 designates that difficult problem or riddle.
When we are faced with a complex situation, which has several facets, aspects, that are mixed, and that must be solved effectively to restore balance, we speak of puzzles.
An investigation of a crime 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, her environment, and investigating everything around her, all of these are components that are presented in isolation and that investigators must unite in a certain way in order to find the victim. responsable.
The Magic Cube, a three-dimensional puzzle, of great boom in the eighties and that to this day remains hyper current
Rubik's cube or magic cube It 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 1974.
The magic cube offers us a puzzle whose faces are divided into squares of the same color that can be changed position. The resolution of the same 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 in the magic cube an original fun and not to mention the mental agility that this unique puzzle demanded of them.
The extent of its use was certainly phenomenal, selling millions of magic cubes around the world and to date it is considered the best-selling puzzle on the planet.
Now, we cannot ignore that although the fury of this game occurred in the aforementioned period, at present, it is still valid, and the parents who were great players of the magic cube have known how to transfer the hobby to their children and by case is that today it is still marketed very well.
Of course it does not arouse the same appeal as new technologies but it still keeps its magic and appeal.
The enormous impact of this three-dimensional puzzle made it even win in 1980 the award for the best game of the year in the puzzle category of course.
For those who do not know it, which must certainly be few, the magic cube is made up of six colors, classically white, yellow, green, orange, blue and red, and structurally it is moved by a sophisticated axis mechanism that makes it easy for each face to turn. independently, thus mixing the aforementioned colors.
The resolution of the puzzle is precisely to return each face to have the same color.
In any case, there are variations in its composition that have been the result of the tributes that were made to the puzzle on its 25th and 30th anniversary.
