When puzzles were first invented, they were made out of wood, and carpenters used jigsaws to cut the pieces (which explains how they got their name). Perhaps that’s why it feels so good when you put a ...

It's hard to walk by a card table full of puzzle pieces and not try to fit even one into place. It's just that pull toward a mental challenge, and the way puzzles bring people together, that Fred ...

Some of the most devoted hobbyists are willing to shell out big bucks for what one called “a couture puzzle.” “The return of analog is, I believe, the recognition that the simple and well-made can ...

There’s room still left in this world for the quality time that comes from investing oneself in a serious puzzle. Most of my childhood was marked by the periods in which my mother would monopolize the ...

That 1,000-piecer has met its match.