Mr Puzzle’s Guide To The World Of Puzzles
Do you enjoy challenging yourself regularly with a good puzzle? Perhaps you do it to keep your mind sharp? Or maybe you have kids that love pulling things apart to discover how they work. Whatever your reason for loving puzzles, you’re bound to find the perfect puzzle on Mr Puzzle’s online store. We’ve been selling high-quality puzzles online for over 20 years, so believe it when we say we love puzzles! If you’ve ever wanted to learn a little more about the world of puzzles, read on!
Fun Facts About Puzzles
Everyone loves a good fun fact or two, and we love them more so when they’re about puzzles! Here are a few of our favourite tidbits.
- Metagrobology is the study of puzzles, and a person who studies them is called a metagrobologist.
- The inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, didn’t know he’d built a puzzle until he scrambled it. He quickly realised the difficulty of the puzzle when he tried to restore his art.
- The oldest puzzle to exist is a dissection of a square called Stomachion, created by Archimedes around 250BC. Archimedes once asked how many solutions there were, and the answer was found in 2003, a whopping 2,253 years later. There are 536 unique solutions to the Stomachion.
The current record for the fastest solve of the Rubik’s Cube is currently 3.47 seconds, set by Yusheng Du. However, a robot has recently solved the problem in 0.38 seconds, which humans will probably never be able to beat.
The Benefits Of Doing Puzzles Regularly
When you buy puzzles online in Australia, you might not know it, but you’re investing in many health and wellbeing benefits! The brainteasers sold in our puzzle shop online all aim to challenge you and encourage you to develop heightened problem-solving skills. Here are a few benefits to buying puzzles online!
- Exercise both sides of your brain. People often assume puzzles in Australia require math and logic to solve. While it helps to be able to look at high-quality wooden puzzles with rationality and objectiveness, that alone won’t get you the solution. You also need to use the creative parts of your brain to try new solutions and explore your options. When you do puzzles regularly, both your left and right brain are getting a workout.
- Improve problem-solving skills. In Australia, puzzles improve the problem-solving ability of both children and adults. As people need to explore a variety of approaches to solving a puzzle, high-quality cognitive skills develop rapidly. Puzzles help us use trial and error to come to a solution.
- They’re a natural mood-booster. There is no better feeling than solving a puzzle you’ve been working on for a while. The rush of dopamine you’ll get will naturally enhance your mood and wellbeing.
- They lower our stress levels. Puzzles encourage us to focus on one single task, allowing our brains to go into a meditative state while we work on a solution. Our minds so frequently focus on multiple things that the chance to concentrate on just one goal is relaxing and stress relief.
How To Choose The Right Puzzle For You
So, you’ve seen the ‘Puzzles For Sale’ sign, and you’re ready to stock up on Mr Puzzle’s vast range of brain teasers. However, when you start shopping, you’re overwhelmed by the enormous selection of puzzles online in Australia. Mr Puzzle has a few tips to make sure you buy puzzles that are ideal for you.
- Which type of puzzle do you usually enjoy? Are you a wooden puzzle fan? Or perhaps you love slider puzzles. There’s no point in buying a puzzle you won’t enjoy, so make sure to select one with which you can have fun.
- How advanced are you at solving puzzles? We often see people gravitate toward the most challenging puzzles only to become frustrated when they can’t solve them. Be reasonable about your skill level and try to pick a puzzle that’s just a tad outside your comfort zone to challenge yourself.
- Do you plan on doing the puzzle more than once? If you intend to solve the puzzle and never attempt it again, you may want to choose a cheaper version of the puzzle. If you’re going to do it over and over again, trying different solutions until you have mastered the problem, you might be interested in purchasing a more expensive puzzle.
- How much are you looking to spend? Expensive doesn’t necessarily mean the most challenging or most advanced. Generally, the more expensive the puzzle, the higher-quality the materials used to create it. Have a browse on Mr Puzzle’s online store to find out more information about our pricing. All our puzzles are AU prices, so keep that in mind whilst browsing.
Why Is Mr Puzzle Your Go-To Puzzle Shop Online?
When you’re looking to purchase puzzles online, Mr Puzzle is your one-stop-shop. We’ve been designing and selling puzzles since 1992, and we had our online puzzle shop well before Google even existed. We’re renowned as Australia’s leading online puzzle store, and we’re proud to be able to offer puzzle-lovers across the nation with a wide variety of brain-teasing puzzles. At Mr Puzzle, you are guaranteed to receive high-quality puzzles, premium customer service, and unparalleled knowledge of all things puzzle-related. If you’re looking to purchase puzzles for yourself, for your kids, or a puzzle-lover in your life, don’t hesitate to drop by our online store and browse the range today!
