What is the Meaning & Definition of puzzle

A puzzle or puzzles, such is its name in English, is a board game which consists of composing certain figure by combining a number of pieces or bits in each of which there is a part of that figure to comply.
The origin of this type of games back at the beginning of the last century, it was artistic puzzle adult made of wood and cut by hand, which immediately became one of the favorite entertainments of the aristocratic class.
In those days, it was a common situation surprise the guests with these puzzles.
For the first decade of the past, a leading North American manufacturer of toys decided to allocate all their production to these handcrafted wooden puzzle which added some fairly attractive modifications: the figurative pieces and knobs. The latter allowed parts are ensamblasen each other doing that puzzle is not easily removed, and offered the possibility that parts taken new forms. But the innovations in this sense would not cease but with the passing of the century boys in large quantities: jagged edges, false corners, among others.
Another use of the word puzzle refers to that problem or puzzle of difficult resolution.
Rubik's cube or magic cube is one of the most popular mechanical puzzle in the world and was invented by the sculptor and Professor of architecture Hungarian Ernő Rubik, in 1974. Magic Cube offers us a puzzle whose faces are divided into squares of the same color can be changed from position. The resolution of this is accomplished by placing all the squares on each side of the cube with the same color.