In 1776, a man drew a picture on card board, then he cut the picture out with a jigsaw and that’s how they began. The puzzles reached popularity during the Depression, for the entertainment. With no money to buy anything, much less games, the puzzles were mostly small and real cheap, maybe five cents for a small one. People began making them for themselves. Women were hired to make them because they already knew how to sew by cutting them out, making and selling them.
There was not enough puzzles in the Depression and people traded them with each other or shared their puzzles. People are still enjoying these picture puzzles as of today.