Game Review... A puzzle actually

Almost Impossible Double-Sided Jigsaw Puzzle

Are you up to the challenge? 

This incredibly difficult doublesided puzzle is one-thousand pieces of pure brain-bursting frustration! Highly detailed marble images on either side of this 1000-piece puzzle are decidedly similar for hours of excellent diversion for those of higher patience and intellect.Who knows marbles better than the House of Marbles?

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).

Did ya Know?

 Did ya Know?

In the 1960s, 3M scientists were hard at work researching an alternative to carbon copy paper and subsequently invented a technique known as micro-encapsulation. The process of micro-encapsulation allowed researchers to make ink copies without carbon copy. Eventually scientists began using this process for perfume testing strips in 1981.

Lincoln Logs

Introduced just after Tinkertoys and the Erector Set, Lincoln Logs were yet another construction toy to make it big during the early 1900's! 

 

John Lloyd Wright, son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, brought out the line of sturdy, interlocking logs in 1916. Wright claimed that the foundation of Tokyo’s earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, which he saw while it was under construction, inspired the shape of his logs.

 

 

 Jigsaw Puzzles

 

Englishmen, John Spilsbury invented the jigsaw puzzle in 1767. Spilsbury was an engraver and mapmaker. The first jigsaw puzzle was a map of the world. Spilsbury attached a map to a piece of wood and then cut out each country. Teachers used Spilsbury's puzzles to teach geography Students learned their geography lessons by putting the world maps back together.