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The first jigsaw puzzle was specious around 1760, when John Spilsbury, a British engraver and mapmaker, mounted a map on a sheet of weald that he then sawed around each individual country
- Spilsbury absorbed the crop to allowance in coaching geography
- After catching on with the wider public, this remained the dominant benefit of jigsaw puzzles until about 1820.
A sample of notable puzzle Photo Puzzles authors includes Sam Loyd, Henry Dudeney, Boris Kordemsky and, extra recently, David J. Bodycombe, Will Shortz and Martin Gardner.