i really want to do one of these fun puzzles she’s doing
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this collection you linked is incredible. so much historical context to glimpse and learn directly. what a treasure! people have done truly amazing stuff on the internet!!!
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Truly a site from an era of the internet that was neat.
great recommendation. local puzzle shop has most of them, chose the ones I liked the appearance of best. also got a metal Hanayama UFO puzzle that’s heavy and rattley and great to fiddle with
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Those were two of his new puzzles from 2022!
I’ve solved them, but Oleo truly took me forever. With the ones as the level of Oleo, I usually just have them in my coffee table drawer and break them out once in a while. That one wasn’t solved for months. Actual time spent? I dunno. Definitely in hours. But it could probably be solved in under an hour by an average person.
Anyway, I think this year he already has, like, five puzzles out, which is wild. Dammit. You’ve just inspired me to go back to the one puzzle from him I never solved.
Btw, if you search for acrylic or packing puzzles on Puzzle Master you’ll find similar stuff. Unfortunately, none of them are cheap (which I’m okay with if the money goes to the artist). It’s just a bummer, because I get very “collect them all” when I see beautiful puzzles.
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I’ll vouch for those Japanese metal puzzles too.
I always avoided them, because I thought they’d drive me nuts, and they can be really pricey.
But there was a 40% off sale on Puzzle Master last year, and I was like, “Fuck it. How many will $100 get me?” Honestly, I really enjoyed them. Other than collecting games, I don’t really like the idea of having a lot of possessions weighing me down, but when you buy too many puzzles, at least they’re pleasant to looks at and touch.
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back on topic, a 250 piece afternoon delight
all the whimsy piece face down top right
some real good tricks with this one. fake whimsy pieces like flowers and the peacock head, and fakeouts on the irregular edges for regular pieces that look like they’d match with whimsies. the off-grid shapes are great, constructing the frame was slow and challenging
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starting a week long vacation soon and oh boy is there gonna be some puzzle troublin. expect photos.
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big winner !
partner was distressed to learn we were to break it up and put it back in the box after, assuring me it’s a very normal thing to frame a finished puzle, naming three people (including her mom) she knew to proudly hang a finished snoopy jigsaw in their home. apparently a childhood mall store sold exclusively puzzles, glue, and picture frames.
now on the hunt for Next puzzles, her immediate first choice is bosch’s garden of earthly delights
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aw that’s so sweet! I’m glad you all loved that one.
Working on an Edward Gorey puzzle. It’s the worst quality puzzle we have, I think. The pieces are tiny and barely stay together. But it’s pretty satisfying to puzzle out. There are lots of fun clothing patterns to hunt for, and his iconic cross hatching makes all of that not as simple as just finding a plaid pattern or a needle detail work on a skirt.
Trying something new by keeping the pieces on one surface and assembling them on another. We got a cheap but reliable folding table to hold whole puzzles so we don’t have to have like the dinner table taken up with a puzzle, and I don’t have this growing frustration through the week that we have a DAMN PUZZLE ON THE DAMN TABLE AND WE CANT DO ANYTHING WHILE ITS ON THERE! And then I go puzzle mad…
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Still at it ! This one is a lot of fun.
I liked how it came together as floating islands instead of an outgrowth from the frame. It’s been fun to put people together then realize how they should be positioned within the frame, and slowly find ways to bridge them together.
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finally broke down and made notes for Bird 11
mild spoiler but matching up the shapes and holes with my naming scheme should be enough to obscure it
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Dang! It finally happened. A used puzzle from a thrift store was missing some crucial pieces. Namely, most of the fucking frame!!! It was one of those old Springbok puzzles, Plantasia.
Alas! It would have been some fun to put together.
My partner’s mom got us a Christmas advent calendar that dishes out like 21 puzzle pieces every day. Kind of a neat idea!
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Very happy to find out this thread exists!!
Just completed this today, 1000 pieces. It was so hard! I almost just quit when I was down to just all the white pieces, but I pushed through and maybe didn’t get a ton of job work done today.
Over the holidays worked on this puzzle, the first one I’d done in years, with Jason and his dad. Also 1000 pieces, and so many were irregularly shaped. Really fun and a good difficulty level. The three of us finished it in 2 days.
Once I decided I wanted to do puzzles again we had to figure out how that worked since we don’t have any large table other than our coffee table. We had a puzzle mat about 10 years ago but I kind of hated it and doing the puzzle on an uneven surface. So I ordered this so I can cover it and keep cat paws away from pieces and can slide it under the couch if we have company.
I also ordered 6 new puzzles, 2 1000 piece and 4 1500, that came yesterday. I am curious if anyone has tried one of those puzzle club things like Completing the Puzzle. Only have so much storage space you know, so the idea is very appealing.
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Finished this one yesterday, 1000 pieces. This was fun to do and not too difficult. I ordered it while working on the skeleton one and really gravitated towards puzzles with COLOR and PATTERNS and things that wouldn’t make it frustrating to work on. Ended up with an extra duplicate piece, which is very odd. I don’t get how that would happen, unless my assumption of how puzzles are made and boxed is incorrect. I like this brand of puzzles because the pieces click together really well and don’t feel like I’m going to tear a piece in half taking them apart.
My only gripe about this puzzle table is the felt. I 100% get that it is there for when the surface is tilted so nothing moves, but man it makes it a pain in the ass to move sections around. Minor quibble though.
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@miffy and I finished this today, on the 2 year anniversary of when we started it
Didn’t take so long cuz it was hard or nothin’, we just did most of it in one session and then I started experiencing puzzle blindness and left it on top of a bookcase for years
It wasn’t nearly as dusty as I expected!!
I would Le Puzz again.
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