Puzzles Collection (page 3)

The card game, Pieter van den Berge, 1694-1737

Jigsaw puzzle with gaps in the middle

Two women apply their thinking power to the new fad, the Imp puzzle game
Detroit, Michigan: January 30, 1934. Two women apply their thinking power to the new fad, the Imp puzzle game

John Bull gets crossword fever
The mid-1920s crossword craze brings John Bull out in crossword fever as an epidemic of crossword puzzles hook the nation

The Next Infliction - the Cross-Word Puzzle Illustrated by W
Heath Robinsons contribution to the crossword craze of 1925, an illustrated crossword puzzle with clues included under the picture

Worthington Crosswords advertisement
An advertisement for Worthington Ales at the time of the craze for crosswords showing an engrossed crossword puzzler bumping into people and causing chaos in his wake as he walks along

The Missing Link by H. M. Bateman
An engrossed and rather obsessive crossword puzzler looks at his modest collection of dictionaries, reference books and encyclopaedias for inspiration while working in a particularly fiendish puzzle

Squaring the Dance Circles by Reginald Higgins
A stylish 1920s couple are distracted from their dancing by an engrossing crossword puzzle, all the rage in 1925. The caption reads, " A word of five letters, beginning with C

Ought and Carry On by A. Havers
A young girl puzzles over some mathematical problem using a slate

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