Just 30 great puzzles to buy this weekend
Bored at home amid social distancing restrictions and freshly extended stay-at-home orders? Consider the jigsaw puzzle.
The humble hobby is having a moment as people seek out ways to keep themselves occupied at home during the coronavirus pandemic. In an interview with CNBC, the North America CEO of the German gamemaker Ravensburger said the company's U.S. puzzle sales shot up a ridiculous 370 percent year over year at the beginning of April. The co-owner of the Puzzle Warehouse, a family-owned store in St. Louis, said its current sales are "beyond even Christmas volume" in an interview with The Washington Post, with as many as 10,000 puzzles flying off its shelves every day. (For context, the shop usually sold about 1,000 puzzles a day in the Before Times.) Read more...
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