Puzzle Day . It is celebrated on January 29, this day a large number of activities related to puzzles and puzzles are carried out.
Summary
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- 1 Puzzle
- 2 Famous puzzles
- 3 Benefits of puzzles
- 4 Celebration
- 5 Sources
Puzzle
A jigsaw or puzzle is a board game whose objective is to form a figure thanks to the perfect combination of the pieces that form it. The first puzzle in history was created in the year 1760 , a fortuitous event at the hands of a map maker , John Spilsbury , who created the first puzzle by putting together a map of Europe by putting together countries cut out around its borders.
The city of Ávila became in 2016 the Spanish capital of puzzles with its first National Puzzles Tournament , which took place on January 9, where 40 pairs of puzzle fans met in that city to face each other in this first tournament , the Children participated in a children’s workshop to show the little ones how to play a puzzle.
Nowadays the term puzzle refers to all those games in which following an order or fulfilling a certain way, it is possible to solve an enigma. Nowadays, puzzles have evolved into interactive and educational video games whose main objective is to solve a skill test. In this category we find different categories such as adventure, strategy, action, etc.
Famous puzzles
There are a large number of puzzles that have spread around the world becoming very popular, such as:
- Sudoku
- Tangram
- Towers of Hanoi
- Rubik’s Cube
Benefits of puzzles
Completing puzzles brings the following benefits:
- Exercises visual memory .
- Helps increase the child’s concentration.
- It is a very good way to manage stress .
- Increases curiosity about what is not known.
- The child develops and understands spatial forms.
- Helps to develop problem solving capacity.
- It is a good practice to care for their shapes, sizes, etc.
Celebration
This day there are usually various activities in which they can participate from children to adults.
In many places, championships are held in which participants will have to try to solve the proposed puzzles correctly and in less time than their opponents such as sudokus , puzzles , tangram figures , etc.
A giant puzzle of hundreds of pieces is also usually made, which will be placed in their corresponding places by all those who want to participate in the activity.
