What is National Puzzle Day?
On January 29 National Puzzle Day honors the worth of
puzzles while promoting their positive effects on brain growth. Following her
interest in puzzles Jodi Jill started this festival in 2002. This event grows
in popularity every year and now receives strong support from puzzle fans.
What does National Puzzle Day aim to accomplish?
Puzzles in any form such as crosswords, jigsaws, word
searches, Sudoku or brain teasers help our minds work effectively. Regularly
spending time working on puzzles can improve:
- Memory
- Cognitive function
- Problem-solving skills
- Logic and reasoning
- Critical thinking
- Vocabulary and numeracy
Puzzle games help you boost your word knowledge and sharpen
your language skills. When we solve Sudoku grids by placing number sets we
strengthen our brain activity. Sudoku's mental tests help us keep our brains
active while building better number handling skills.
Puzzles also offer social benefits. Working on these brain
teasers alongside another person strengthens our social skills. Our
interactions through groups and children's play help us stay socially connected
while passing social learning to our kids. When people solve puzzles peacefully
with each other they gain an opportunity to still their minds without pressure.
When you solve puzzles your brain stays busy while
exercising its capabilities.
HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL PUZZLE DAY
- Invite a friend to put a puzzle together with you.
- Try a new puzzle game or revisit an old one.
- Create a puzzle game.
- Visit the National Day Calendar Classroom for numerous
puzzles and projects. - Use #NationalPuzzleDay to post on social media.
- Focus your mind on these 7 Puzzling Mysteries from History.
NATIONAL PUZZLE DAY HISTORY
Jodi Jill launched National Puzzle Day in 2002 to let others
taste the enjoyment she found in puzzles. To promote puzzles in education Jodi
Jill designed lesson plans which became successful and more students joined the
celebration every new year.
Puzzle FAQ
Q. People from every background can join in celebrating
National Puzzle Day activities.
A. Yes. All kinds of puzzle enthusiasts can take part
because there are multiple puzzle types to choose from.
Q. Who created the first crossword puzzle and when did they
launch it?
According to records from Liverpool Journalist Arthur Wynne
holds title as originator of our contemporary word game. He started the
tradition of printing crossword puzzles when he directly published the world's
first one. On December 21, 1913 the NY World's first crosswords entered public
view.
Q. Who made the first sudoku puzzle appear?
A. An 18th-century Swiss mathematician invented the game of
Latin Squares. The French newspapers launched these puzzles in 1895. The Sudoku
game people enjoy right now differs fully from its original design because it
uses more present-day technology. From Connersville, Indiana Howard Garns
designed the Sudoku game format that people use today. Garns produced puzzle
games as a free-lance creator and named the game Number Place. The magazine
"Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games" published Number Place for the
first time in 1979.
Q. What design was featured on the initial jigsaw puzzle?
A. The first jigsaw puzzle belonged to John Spilsbury who
glued a world map to wooden surface then created the individual pieces as a
British cartographer and engraver. He cut pieces for each nation into distinct
sections.
