Whether made of cardboard or sculpted out of wood, jigsaw puzzles ... they just concentrate on matching pieces,” said Anne Williams, the author of “The Jigsaw Puzzle: Piecing Together a ...

The very first jigsaw puzzle is said to have been made by London mapmaker John Spilsbury in the 1760s. "He pasted a map onto a thin piece of wood, and he used a scroll saw to cut it up ...

The face puzzle, a box of wooden jigsaw pieces, looks like a child’s game, a primitive, flattened-out version of Mr. Potato Head. Start with the biggest piece, a half-inch-thick hunk of wood ...