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Cincinnati Magazine March 2, 2021 Jigsaw puzzles were as hard to find as toilet paper throughout 2020, as Americans looked for anything to entertain us during the pandemic’s lockdowns. Amy Pepe of the Geneva (New York) Historical Society says this current fascination is actually the third jigsaw puzzle craze, and Cincinnati shows the same pattern, with locals jumping on the puzzle bandwagon all three times. The whole family, including the baby, the dog and the cat, took up jigsaw puzzles in 1909, according to this Cincinnati Post cartoon. Complicated puzzles that year usually contained fewe...

Jigsaw puzzles have made a major comeback in 2020. In the spring, when the first shelter-in-place orders were issued in many regions of the country due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, there was a surge in demand for puzzles. Puzzle makers saw sales go up by 300 to 400%, and, due to the pandemic-related pause in production, quickly sold out of popular items. As this seemingly endless year has dragged on—with record-breaking numbers of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.—sheltering in place isn’t ending anytime soon. Puzzling, which many adults find to be both meditative and engrossing, is part...