jigsaw puzzles

Piece-together pastimes

Jigsaw puzzles is the plural of jigsaw puzzle, a picture mounted on cardboard or wood and cut into interlocking pieces to be reassembled.

The name comes from the jigsaw, a tool once used to cut the irregular shapes.

Jigsaw puzzles range from simple children's versions to complex thousand-piece challenges: We spent the rainy weekend working on jigsaw puzzles.

Opposites
fragmented vs. whole images

jigsaw puzzlesphotographs

Light-captured images

paintings · posters

solitary contemplative vs. social active entertainment

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Competitions played collectively

party games · action sports · competitive sports · athletic contests · board games

tactile analog vs. digital entertainment

jigsaw puzzlesvideo games

Interactive electronic entertainment

mobile games · virtual reality · online gaming

Family

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Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G