Did ya know?

Puzzle Fun Facts!

1. In the USA more people enjoy jigsaws each year than any other table game. 

2. The fastest way to do a jigsaw is to sort all the different colors into groups before you begin. The real 'Experts' stand up all the time because sitting cramps their style!

3. Although it may seem odd, it will take you four times as long to do a 1,000 piece jigsaw as it will to do a 500 piece jigsaw. This is because each time you double the number of pieces you quadruple the difficulty. Before you start a 4,000 piece jigsaw, bear in mind that it will take you SIXTY FOUR times longer to complete it than it takes you to complete a 500 piece one!

4. The most pieces ever assembled together in a single jigsaw was 209,250 at the Grand Formosa Regent Hotel in Taiwan.

5. The first jigsaws (called 'dissected maps') were cut nearly two and a half centuries ago.

6. Craftsmen are constantly developing ways to make it more difficult to solve jigsaws. Innovations include 'The Phoney Corner' (a fake corner piece in the MIDDLE of a puzzle) and 'Color Line Cutting' (a piece cut exactly along the dividing line between different colors - a pure green piece can then join a pure blue piece and neither piece gives a clue to the color of its neighbor).