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Surely you've seen before pictures of amazing 3D- naturalistic paintings, painted on the pavement or the walls of various building.

Lately  “Lions Gate Gorge”, a giant 3D artwork created by artist Qi Xinghua has been acknowledged as the world’s largest 3D painting, by the Guinness Book of Records.

The amazing painting, located in front of a shopping mall in Guangzhou, China, measures 23 meters wide and 32 meters long, on the ground, while the wall in the background is 6 meters high. It covers an area of 892 square meters and looks so realistic that people say they actually get dizzy when walking on the painted ropes that traverse the colorful gorge.

Enjoy the pictures of this amazing and huge painting:

A creative approach on Jigsaw Puzzles by manufacturing furniture elements:

Stave Puzzles is an American jigsaw puzzle company located in Norwich, Vermont. The company was created in 1969 by Steve Richardson and Dave Tibbetts. They manufacture hand cut jigsaw puzzles made from cherry-backed, 5-layered, 1⁄4-inch (6.4 mm) wood. Stave produces several different types of puzzles ranging from traditional puzzles, teaser puzzles, trick puzzles and lately three dimensional puzzles, limited edition puzzles and complete custom puzzles.

Owners of Stave Puzzles include Queen Elizabeth II, Barbara Bush, Stephen King, Julie Andrews, Tom Peters, and Bill Gates.

The Stave Company of America make and sell the most expensive range of modern jigsaws. As long ago as 1993 a Stave puzzle was sold for over $12,000.  Stave make many jigsaws each year that are eagerly snapped up at prices of over $5,000 each.

Here are some examples of these amazing Jigsaw Puzzles.

Ramon Bruin is a 31 year old talented freelance artist, who graduated at the Airbrush Academie in the Netherlands.  He is mostly a self-taught artist. Besides a great passion for airbrush, he also draws and paints. With experience in multiple techniques and materials like acrylic-, oil, water paints, charcoal, paint pens, pencils and graphite he makes unique artwork.

From modern-expressionism to kick-ass airbrush designs and from photorealism to 3d optical illusion drawings. With great passion for airbrush, Ramon studied (2007 – 2010) at the Airbrush Academie in Lelystadб in the Netherlands and graduated as a professional all-round airbrush artist.  With great eye for detail and a sharp use of color Ramon can handle any form of design.

Here is a gallery of amazing 3D works of this talented painter

There are several benefits any child can avail of by playing jigsaw puzzles, in boxes or online games. There are 3  ways in which jigsaw puzzle can prove beneficial for children’s proper growth & development:

• Improves Hand – eye coordination: While playing jigsaw puzzles children learn how to observe the pieces and put them in the correct position. 
• Enhances Brain & Memory Power: Jigsaw puzzles are very beneficial in developing a child’s mental and logical behavior in their early stages. It is also helpful in developing manual dexterity. As children get older, he/she will be able to proceed to more intricate puzzle games. This will further help develop and improve their other skills such as vernacular and numerals. 
• Boosts morale: The successful completion of jigsaw puzzles presume a gratifying feeling in children. This in turn boosts a child’s morale and eventually children are motivated to play and finish more puzzles. Thus, they are also encouraged to move onto more complex puzzles. 

Throughout the history there were created and developed various types of puzzles for mind training and memory development skills. These are the most popular ones:

• Logic puzzles using a chess board, such as Knight's Tour and Eight queens.
• Mathematical problems such as the missing square puzzle. Many of these are "impossible puzzles", such as the Seven Bridges of Königsberg, Water, gas, and electricity and Three cups problem. See List of impossible puzzles.
• Picture puzzles, such as sliding puzzles like the fifteen puzzle; jigsaws and variants such as Puzz-3D.
• Puzzle video game
• Sangaku
• Sokoban
• Spot the difference
• Tangram
• Word puzzles, including anagrams, crosswords, word-searches and ciphers.
• The Anagram Jigsaw is a jigsaw puzzle where pieces are rearranged for two correct solutions.

“Legpuzzel” is the dutch name for jigsaw puzzles and tangram-like puzzles.

Puzzel represents the most general word, encompassing logical puzzles, crosswords, mechanical puzzles and in general all kind of “problems” to solve.

On 18 october 1817 in Paris a booklet with the title “Le Casse-tête Chinois” was published and it was a copy of the English publication ” The Chinese Puzzle”.

In italy the etimology of word puzzles weas reflected in Rompicapo- Al Gioco Cinese chiamato il Rompi-Capo” was the title of an 1818 Italian publication.

The Spanish Rompecabezas is from some later date, probably introduced as Rompe-Cabezas as one of the titles of French export puzzles.

The German name Kopfzerbrecher has been used in 1891 as the name for the Anker tangram puzzle

“Chinese puzzles” became in the middle of nineteenth century the name for mechanical puzzles from Asia  - they were made in Japan or India.

Unlike word or jigsaw puzzles, mechanical puzzles are hand-held objects that must be manipulated to achieve a specific goal. These puzzles are often referred to as mechanical puzzles, brain teasers, 3D puzzles, mind benders, one person games, or just plain wooden games or wooden toys.

A new resource of online jigsaw puzzles is ready to be used and conquered by creative and sharp minds.

Jigbo.com is a beautiful collection of online jigsaw puzzles with the possibility to explore and solve them.

With us you can trace your progress, create your own puzzles online and much more. Find hundreds of new jigsaw puzzles every day and become a respected and competitive player. You will be able to choose among a variety of puzzles, with different design, dimensions and number of pieces.

If you love art, you will certainly appreciate the wonderful images jigsaw puzzle can create. Sign in as a user and choose online puzzles of various categories and difficulty level.

Jigsaw puzzles online are offered in the following categories: animals, architecture, battle, fantasy, food and drinks, interior, landscape, monsters, objects, people, plants, robots, toys, transport, etc.