Do You Know Who Invented These Puzzles?
Inventing a puzzle is an impressive feat that can make a person very famous and not just in the country they live or are from but around the world. There are puzzles that have been cocreated or in other words invented by more than one person and there are some very gifted individuals who have been able to invent more than one. There are some puzzles in which there is a dispute over who created them and there are many for which it is unknown to this day and will likely never be known who created them often because they were created a long time ago as there were a lot of puzzles that came into existence hundreds and sometimes even thousands of years ago and for some of them it has been lost to time who the actual inventors of them were. This is why the vast majority of puzzle creators you will have likely heard of are from the past few hundred years in particular from the 19th and 20th centuries and also because in the last couple hundred years many of the most popular puzzles of all time that are still played today have come into existence. If you are a puzzle enthusiast then you will likely have heard of most, if not all, of the inventors that are the answers to this quiz and even people who do not have that big an interest in this activity will have likely heard of a few of these creators. The inventors that are the answers to this quiz are from all over the world and are mostly male so test your knowledge and see how many of them you know or can guess right in this quiz.
The answers to this quiz can be found by scrolling down the page if you are looking for the answer after each question or by clicking here to check all the answers.
Guess who invented these puzzles:
1. Pictionary
2. The Tower of Hanoi
3. The jigsaw
4. 4D cityscape
5. Wordle
6. Pyraminx
7. Magic Eye
8. Sudoku
9. Rush Hour
10. The crossword
11. Cluedo
12. Rubik's cube
13. 15 Puzzle
14. The LEGO brick
15. Jenga
16. Where's Wally?
17. The Word Search
18. Tetris
19. Nonogram
20. Scrabble
The answers:
1. Rob Angel
2. Édouard Lucas
3. John Spilsbury
4. Shaun Sakdinan
5. Josh Wardle
6. Uwe Mèffert
7. Cheri Smith and Tom Baccei
8. Howard Garns
9. Nob Yoshigahara
10. Arthur Wynne
11. Anthony E. Pratt
12. Ernő Rubik
13. Noyes Chapman
14. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
15. Leslie Scott
16. Martin Handford
17. Norman E. Gibat
18. Alexey Pajitnov
19. Non Ishida
20. Alfred Mosher Butts
