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 The Future of Jigsaw Puzzles    Nowadays , more and more people play puzzles  . Especially for children, there are many benefits to playing with puzzles . It can Cultivate the concept of plane combination, understand the meaning of sequence/order/logic, enhance the development of hand-eye coordination, cultivate observation skills, cultivate patience and concentration.   While the artwork used in puzzles is constantly changing to keep pace with current consumer tastes, there have been few manufacturing innovations in recent years. Nonetheless, there are areas from which future developments are likely to come. As noted above, quality customized wooden puzzles are gaining in popularity. One company, i.C. Ayer & Co. has developed novel computer-controlled water jets to automate the cutting of wooden puzzles. One new type of puzzle takes two-dimensional jigsaw puzzles  and transforms them into three-dimensional puzzles. These puzzles feature die cut pieces which, when assembled, form
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How Jigscut Puzzle Die Made  Background   A jigsaw puzzle is a picture, which is adhered to a thin and stiff background, like wood or cardboard , and then cut into multiple pieces. The pieces are assembled by the user to reform the original picture. Although the origin of the word puzzle is unknown, it is known that the first jigsaw puzzles were made in the 1760s by European cartographer John Spilbury. Raw Material    Virtually any artwork can be used for puzzle making but most major manufactures use lithographic prints because they are high quality, inexpensive, and easily mass produced. Many of the pictures used in puzzles are based on famous photographs or paintings, but some custom puzzle makers let the customer supply their own photographs or pictures. BACKING MATERIAL    Mass market puzzle manufacturers use card-board (also known as chipboard) as a backing material because it is cheap and easy to cut. Higher quality custom-made puzzles still use wood , usually in 5-ply birch. I