Nothing beats the sense of achievement from finding that missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle! They’ve been a staple of entertainment since map engraver, John Spilsbury, created the first jigsaw ...

I looked up their origin and found that British cartographer John Spilsbury (1739-1769) invented the jigsaw puzzle in 1766 to teach geography, carving each country out of a world map stuck to wood.

Jigsaw puzzles have been around since about 1760 when British engraver and mapper, John Spilsbury, put a map of the known world on a thin piece of wood and cut along the outline of each country.