Puzzles

[sanzath]

So I was feeling a little nostalgic today, because I hadn't built a jigsaw puzzle in forever. So I stopped by the store and bought a 2000-piece beast, just because it was the biggest they had, and got to work on it tonight. After a few hours, I realized that 2000 is a really big number:



Here, the pieces are all laid out by color, and for a while I was afraid they wouldn't even all fit on the table *_* Anyway, chances are it'll take me a while to finish this thing.

So do any of you ever build puzzles? Still have old ones that you've never taken apart? Small ones? Big ones? 3D ones? Show me all of them!

[pmonibuv1]

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Hmmm. I haven't done jigsaw puzzles in a while. The most recent one I remember would be those 3d lego/megablocks sets that come with a step-by-step instruction booklet on how to build it. If that doesn't count, I remember a 3-d Big Ben jigsaw puzzle that was about 3 feet that my dad and I finished. I think we threw that out a couple years ago. I wouldn't mind doing another jigsaw puzzle if I had the time, space, frame, and wall space. XD

[Mike Weedmark]

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I do them, but I have a different strategy. I start from the edges, then do similar sections one at a time instead of laying every piece out at once. Dat be a massive table. Post a pic of the finished product.

Oh also I have a Puzz3D of the Big Ben clock tower. Can't post atm.

Oh wow, didn't even read pmoni's post either. Mine's definitely not 3 feet though. More like a foot.

[sanzath]

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I do them, but I have a different strategy. I start from the edges, then do similar sections one at a time instead of laying every piece out at once. Dat be a massive table. Post a pic of the finished product.

That's basically what I'm doing, I just laid it all out so I could separate the edges from everything else and get all the similar sections together. I think it's easier to find the pieces you need when you know what color you're looking for and everything of that color is already bunched together, as opposed to everything being in a giant pile of doom.

Pic of the complete puzzle will come in due time~

[who_cares973]

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I mentally did a 5k puzzle when I was at Walmart looking at the box. Only took like 10 seconds to do but it.was fun

[00Razor00]

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wat r pussles?

[DarknessXoXLight]

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I love puzzles. I have so many boxes of like 5000+ pieces my mom said I would put together as a kid in the basement. I don't have a strategy though, I kind of just go in blind and have at it. x]

Might just pull out a puzzle now......

[awein999]

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i don't mind them. if im extremely bored and don't feel like reading a book or going out i'll work on a puzzle. first i flip over all the pieces/flatten them out. next i try to find end pieces and categorize those. then find pieces that look similar after studying the box picture and put those near each other. other than that i don't know any advanced strategy. i go at a relaxing pace so it doesn't feel like a grind. also the bigger the better

edit: 3000

[nois-or-e]

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I remember doing a few of these 'impossible' puzzles when I was a kid. Hours of fun and rage~

http://www.alljigsawpuzzles.co.uk/shopping/p31.htm

[A2P]

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I will wreck your shit at jigsaws mother****er

[sanzath]

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I remember doing a few of these 'impossible' puzzles when I was a kid. Hours of fun and rage~

http://www.alljigsawpuzzles.co.uk/shopping/p31.htm

Ew, that looks like a terrible thing to do to yourself. Still if it's only 550 pieces, that isn't so bad...

Anyway, finished my borders 'cause I'm a noob like that



Also while doing this I realized all of the pieces have exactly the same lock/tab/whatever shape - 2 in, 2 out, opposite to each other. Not sure if this makes things easier or harder yet :S

[SkRAWRk]

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Props on borders + 1 non-border piece! \o/ Progress has been made!

I used to love jigsaws but I haven't done one in a while. :c I prefer logic puzzles or number puzzles like Sudoku nowadays. I should really get back into these things. :3

Make a montage of your progress! ;D

[samurai7694]

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The most challenging one I did was the 1000 piece one of a Star Wars movie poster years ago (I forgot which one out of the 6), and it took me like 2-3 hours to solve it on my own.

[25thhour]

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I remember doing a 2000 piece puzzle with my mom when I was a kid, and when we were almost done when I tipped the coffee table and it fell on the floor.... :P

[Reincarnate]

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Puzzles are fun in the right setting... we had a 5000-piecer that my dorm section put together over the course of a month or so over in a nearby common lounge. Fun to do when you're just sitting around with not much else to do.