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Thursday, January 29, 2026

National Puzzle 🧩 Day

National Puzzle Day
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National Puzzle Day is celebrated annually on January 29. 
Founded in 2002 by puzzle enthusiast Jodi Jill, the day honors all forms of brain exercises, including jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, Sudoku, word searches, and brain teasers. 
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National Puzzle Day
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National Puzzle Day
Each year on January 29th, National Puzzle Day recognizes how exercising our brains with puzzles is just one of its many benefits.

National Puzzle Day
Whether it's a crossword, jigsaw, trivia, word searches, brain teasers or Sudoku, puzzles put our minds to work. Studies have found that when we work on a jigsaw puzzle, we use both sides of the brain.  And spending time daily working on puzzles improves memory, cognitive function, and problem-solving skills.
The bottom line is, puzzles stimulate the brain, keeping it active, and practicing its skills.
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HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL PUZZLE DAY
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NATIONAL PUZZLE DAY HISTORY
In 2002, Jodi Jill created National Puzzle Day as a way to share her enjoyment of puzzles. As a syndicated newspaper puzzle maker and professional quiz maker, Jodi Jill developed classroom lesson plans especially for the observance and the popularity has grown year after year.
 
Puzzle FAQ
Q. Can anyone participate in National Puzzle Day?
A. Yes. There are so many different kinds of puzzles that anyone can celebrate this day.
 
Q. When was the crossword puzzle first created?
A. Journalist Arthur Wynne from Liverpool receives credit as the inventor of the word game we know today. He created what is considered the first known published crossword puzzle. The puzzle appeared in the December 21, 1913, edition of the New York World newspaper.

Q. When was the first sudoku puzzle created?
A. An 18th-century mathematician from Switzerland developed a game called Latin Squares. In 1895, these puzzles were published in French newspapers. Today’s version of Sudoku, however, is much more modern. Howard Garns from Connersville, Indiana, created the game we play today. Garns is a freelance puzzle inventor, and he called the game Number Place. In 1979, Number Place first appeared in the magazine “Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games.”

Q. What image was on the first jigsaw puzzle?

A. A British cartographer and engraver by the name of John Spilsbury invented the jigsaw puzzle when he glued a world map to a piece of wood. He cut out each country separately.
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-puzzle-day-january-29
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