Shit I should have bought shares in Puzz 3D before I made that post.
EDIT: I had... that castle one I posted, London Bridge and the Eiffel Tower. There might have been one other smaller one too. God damn I wanted the Millennium Falcon puzzle so bad.
Me and my brother and my parents did the Millennium Falcon one. It was as great is you think it was!
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
during her final year of highschool, she started making a 1000 or so piece one, and the whole family had to start helping, just so we could get the bloody thing finished, and she would get back to studying
we also often get one for christmas, which is often a great thing for if it starts raining a whole lot and it's not nice enough to go outside. Maps of places can be pretty good. Because then they also test your geography. And you learn stuff. We found out that there is a place in Australia called Useless Loop, which is lovely.
Oh my God, yes! For my 10th birthday I got the US Capitol Building and one of my friends and I tore into it ravenously to put it together, and three of my other friends there just could not understand our excitement. Coincidentally, I only still communicate with one of said friends!
I remember when he get the Empire State Building for Christmas we sank an entire weekend into it and still only got about 2/3 done with it. I may have to buy one of these bastards on eBay to sate my nostalgia.
Three dimensional puzzles inferior
Four dimensional puzzles superior.
The way it works is, the puzzle gives you a timeline of building construction (and sometimes deconstruction) to follow, so after you finish layers one and two, you assemble layer three along the timeline so you can watch the city grow as it would have over the years.
We didn't realize you were supposed to pop out the little empty spaces in layer two when we assembled New York, so we had to use tweezers to set all the skyscrapers in place by the end. And then Chicago? YEAH, that blue mass of Lake Michigan took my brother, his girlfriend and I - and we're a puzzle family - two months because the pieces aren't well differentiated and the image detail doesn't correspond to the minute striations on the blue pieces themselves.
Anyway they're pretty fun. Except for Lake Michigan. Fuck you, Lake Michigan.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
...but
1. i don't really have a table to do them on,
additionally,
2. where the cats wouldn't immediately discover this new toy to squirrel away.
when i was a kid, i put together a hexagon-shaped puzzle with a photo of a ton of pocketwatches. maybe it was just the box that was a hexagon? anyway, that was a good one. i believe i purged it in the last move.
Ohh I think I had one like that, with the little descriptive bubbles all over it. They came in hexagonal boxes, right?
I think I still have the puzzle and yes it has bits of the book on it
I have had to glue it several times here as it gets really dry and the glue decays really quick
I think last year we had to impose a strict limit on the number of pieces we could have, because at a certain point, we just didn't have enough space on certain tables to fit them on
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My dad's got into the habit of having jigsaws made from people's photos. He's used a few of my pics so far, and I'm thinking of getting him to do this one.
These are the three puzzles I made earlier this year:
One from Ravensburger if I'm not mistaken, and two from Educa's Power of Nature series.
I love the fact that 1000 piece puzzles fit perfectly in a 50x70cm frame, and that you can buy coloured drawing paper of 50x70cm, so I flip my puzzle over, put it on the glass, put the coloured drawing paper behind it (in case the puzzle is slightly smaller; Ravensburger puzzles of 50x70 are slightly smaller, and that's why I use the coloured paper), then push the back on the frame on it, fold the metal foldy things forward while pressing hard on the back, and voila, a jigsaw in a frame which stays put and no glue is required!
And when I'm bored of one I can take it out and put another one in :biggrin:
So a friend of mine bought a puzzle and she really had some trouble with it because she got crazy of all the pieces.
So I tried it and yup, after a week or so I was slightly crazy too and when I closed my eyes I saw them everywhere...
EVERYWHERE :eek:
The worst thing of all: there were 13 pieces missing! :rotate:
So I mailed Clementoni, the company and sent them the correct request form and a pic of the puzzle so that they knew which pieces I was missing.
This was their reply:
That's more than 13 pieces! That's the whole 1000 pieces again! :bigfrown: :eek: :exclaim: :rotate: :snap: :crackle: :pop: :hydra: :twisted:
I haven't had the courage yet to seek out the missing 13 pieces...
(A puzzle company will always send a complete puzzle back, because the image printed might differ a millimeter or two on each puzzle; so even if I find the 13 pieces, they will fit the missing hole, but the picture might not fit perfectly)
Oh my God, yes! For my 10th birthday I got the US Capitol Building and one of my friends and I tore into it ravenously to put it together, and three of my other friends there just could not understand our excitement. Coincidentally, I only still communicate with one of said friends!
I remember when he get the Empire State Building for Christmas we sank an entire weekend into it and still only got about 2/3 done with it. I may have to buy one of these bastards on eBay to sate my nostalgia.
Three dimensional puzzles inferior
Four dimensional puzzles superior.
The way it works is, the puzzle gives you a timeline of building construction (and sometimes deconstruction) to follow, so after you finish layers one and two, you assemble layer three along the timeline so you can watch the city grow as it would have over the years.
We didn't realize you were supposed to pop out the little empty spaces in layer two when we assembled New York, so we had to use tweezers to set all the skyscrapers in place by the end. And then Chicago? YEAH, that blue mass of Lake Michigan took my brother, his girlfriend and I - and we're a puzzle family - two months because the pieces aren't well differentiated and the image detail doesn't correspond to the minute striations on the blue pieces themselves.
Anyway they're pretty fun. Except for Lake Michigan. Fuck you, Lake Michigan.
Anyone know a way I could get a jigsaw puzzle made out of a png or jpg or something? I've got some screenshots from The Witness that would be absolutely gorgeous and may make good gifts.
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I know there are websites that do that because friends have had it done! I just uhh, don't know what's good.
I mean technically both were gifts, but I know at least my brother bought Chicago for me off Amazon. I recommend doing one with a lot of destruction/change over time to get the full effect. New York was far superior to Chicago because you got to take some things out and put new ones in.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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So a friend of mine bought a puzzle and she really had some trouble with it because she got crazy of all the pieces.
So I tried it and yup, after a week or so I was slightly crazy too and when I closed my eyes I saw them everywhere...
EVERYWHERE :eek:
The worst thing of all: there were 13 pieces missing! :rotate:
So I mailed Clementoni, the company and sent them the correct request form and a pic of the puzzle so that they knew which pieces I was missing.
This was their reply:
That's more than 13 pieces! That's the whole 1000 pieces again! :bigfrown: :eek: :exclaim: :rotate: :snap: :crackle: :pop: :hydra: :twisted:
I haven't had the courage yet to seek out the missing 13 pieces...
(A puzzle company will always send a complete puzzle back, because the image printed might differ a millimeter or two on each puzzle; so even if I find the 13 pieces, they will fit the missing hole, but the picture might not fit perfectly)
13 Missing pieces is a lot! That is so cool of them to send you a new puzzle though.
I have my eyes on this life size vintage 1971 playboy puzzle 5'6". Its 150 pieces (which may be annoying because it will be so fast to complete) Super size puzzle pieces?!?! I have yet to try a 3D puzzle :? Any suggestions?
I have seen quite a few playboy and penthouse puzzles :winky: but the last place I knew to get them closed long ago
Cool. I have my own line of erotic puzzles that I produce now (just released) but I know I am not supposed to mention that in a post like this because it would be promotional (or link to it) . hah. Yeah, I'm eyeing the one on ebay. I'm 5'5" so I want to lay down next to it and take a photo. :P
I have seen quite a few playboy and penthouse puzzles :winky: but the last place I knew to get them closed long ago
Maybe I should just buy it make it and post it.... 8-)
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my family is big on the charles wysocki old timey puzzles.
we got some neat ones for christmas - thankfully 300 and 500 piece ones. my days of agonizing over 1000 piece puzzles are kind of over. would rather just crush a few easy ones for the purposes of relaxin'. One of the ones we got for christmas is a bunch of old travel posters and it was pretty fun to do.
apparently the beau's family conflated the jigsaw puzzles on my Amazon wishlist with a desire on his part for many jigsaw puzzles, and so he got several. ...i am curious how many of my presents from his sibs and parents will be jigsaw puzzles...
i put a ton on my list as options, people, i am not obsessed! (that said, i got a couple i found at Tuesday Morning (one and-a two) for my sister's daughter. but they don't know that!)
I haven't yet found my father's 2016 puzzle, and the clock is ticking
I found a fractal one with Riemann spheres, but it was only sold in the US. I bought it for some other time. @Lost Salient I completely forgot I was going to get him the 3D NY one (not that it would have fit in my luggage) - my sister and I are pooling our money for next year.
There's one around that's entirely black, but that seems like a copout. Going to search the national gallery today for something really agonizing.
My mum is a jigsaw addict. She hates the 3D ones, but give her any 2d puzzle and she's in heaven. The more pieces the better.
For Christmas my little brother got her a miniature jigsaw. 150 pieces, each absolutely minuscule and, she quickly discovered, the same shape. It came in a packet that looked like a test tube. The image was of seven swans flying across a blue sky.
It took her two days to finish it. I've never heard her swear so much in my life.
She's now started on a 2,000 piece one Dad got her.
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I was gifted a wooden jigsaw puzzle from Liberty Puzzles. Not sure if it's saw cut or laser or what but there are pieces shaped like chickens and men and women and flowers it's really quite something. 375 pieces 8.25"x18.75"
And the devious bastards cut it so there aren't any corners.
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So a friend of mine bought a puzzle and she really had some trouble with it because she got crazy of all the pieces.
So I tried it and yup, after a week or so I was slightly crazy too and when I closed my eyes I saw them everywhere...
EVERYWHERE :eek:
The worst thing of all: there were 13 pieces missing! :rotate:
So I mailed Clementoni, the company and sent them the correct request form and a pic of the puzzle so that they knew which pieces I was missing.
This was their reply:
That's more than 13 pieces! That's the whole 1000 pieces again! :bigfrown: :eek: :exclaim: :rotate: :snap: :crackle: :pop: :hydra: :twisted:
I haven't had the courage yet to seek out the missing 13 pieces...
(A puzzle company will always send a complete puzzle back, because the image printed might differ a millimeter or two on each puzzle; so even if I find the 13 pieces, they will fit the missing hole, but the picture might not fit perfectly)
And I also got some Metal Earth model kits, not really a puzzle, but I'll post them here regardless:
I just need Enterprise D to complete the Star Trek Set. I hope they make more Star Trek models eventually.
...and definately want them to make Firefly Serenity ship and Rick's flying car from Rick and Morty.
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Me and my brother and my parents did the Millennium Falcon one. It was as great is you think it was!
but they're listening to every word I say
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My mom really likes puzzles. So do our cats! They are not very helpful though.
during her final year of highschool, she started making a 1000 or so piece one, and the whole family had to start helping, just so we could get the bloody thing finished, and she would get back to studying
we also often get one for christmas, which is often a great thing for if it starts raining a whole lot and it's not nice enough to go outside. Maps of places can be pretty good. Because then they also test your geography. And you learn stuff. We found out that there is a place in Australia called Useless Loop, which is lovely.
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Three dimensional puzzles inferior
Four dimensional puzzles superior.
The way it works is, the puzzle gives you a timeline of building construction (and sometimes deconstruction) to follow, so after you finish layers one and two, you assemble layer three along the timeline so you can watch the city grow as it would have over the years.
We didn't realize you were supposed to pop out the little empty spaces in layer two when we assembled New York, so we had to use tweezers to set all the skyscrapers in place by the end. And then Chicago? YEAH, that blue mass of Lake Michigan took my brother, his girlfriend and I - and we're a puzzle family - two months because the pieces aren't well differentiated and the image detail doesn't correspond to the minute striations on the blue pieces themselves.
Anyway they're pretty fun. Except for Lake Michigan. Fuck you, Lake Michigan.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
1000 pieces by D-toys
1. i don't really have a table to do them on,
additionally,
2. where the cats wouldn't immediately discover this new toy to squirrel away.
when i was a kid, i put together a hexagon-shaped puzzle with a photo of a ton of pocketwatches. maybe it was just the box that was a hexagon? anyway, that was a good one. i believe i purged it in the last move.
I think I still have the puzzle and yes it has bits of the book on it
I have had to glue it several times here as it gets really dry and the glue decays really quick
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One from Ravensburger if I'm not mistaken, and two from Educa's Power of Nature series.
I love the fact that 1000 piece puzzles fit perfectly in a 50x70cm frame, and that you can buy coloured drawing paper of 50x70cm, so I flip my puzzle over, put it on the glass, put the coloured drawing paper behind it (in case the puzzle is slightly smaller; Ravensburger puzzles of 50x70 are slightly smaller, and that's why I use the coloured paper), then push the back on the frame on it, fold the metal foldy things forward while pressing hard on the back, and voila, a jigsaw in a frame which stays put and no glue is required!
And when I'm bored of one I can take it out and put another one in :biggrin:
So I tried it and yup, after a week or so I was slightly crazy too and when I closed my eyes I saw them everywhere...
EVERYWHERE :eek:
The worst thing of all: there were 13 pieces missing! :rotate:
So I mailed Clementoni, the company and sent them the correct request form and a pic of the puzzle so that they knew which pieces I was missing.
This was their reply:
That's more than 13 pieces! That's the whole 1000 pieces again! :bigfrown: :eek: :exclaim: :rotate: :snap: :crackle: :pop: :hydra: :twisted:
I haven't had the courage yet to seek out the missing 13 pieces...
(A puzzle company will always send a complete puzzle back, because the image printed might differ a millimeter or two on each puzzle; so even if I find the 13 pieces, they will fit the missing hole, but the picture might not fit perfectly)
they know their audience
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Thanks.
Those remind me of some of the puzzles I have my eye on @ amazon.
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Oh, man!
I got this puzzle for my birthday when I was a kid.
I picked it out for myself at the store and everything.
I think my mom ended up doing most of it.
@tynic Ye Aulde Amazon
I mean technically both were gifts, but I know at least my brother bought Chicago for me off Amazon. I recommend doing one with a lot of destruction/change over time to get the full effect. New York was far superior to Chicago because you got to take some things out and put new ones in.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
They're gonna make Gotham City
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
13 Missing pieces is a lot! That is so cool of them to send you a new puzzle though.
Cool. I have my own line of erotic puzzles that I produce now (just released) but I know I am not supposed to mention that in a post like this because it would be promotional (or link to it) . hah. Yeah, I'm eyeing the one on ebay. I'm 5'5" so I want to lay down next to it and take a photo. :P
Maybe I should just buy it make it and post it.... 8-)
we got some neat ones for christmas - thankfully 300 and 500 piece ones. my days of agonizing over 1000 piece puzzles are kind of over. would rather just crush a few easy ones for the purposes of relaxin'. One of the ones we got for christmas is a bunch of old travel posters and it was pretty fun to do.
i put a ton on my list as options, people, i am not obsessed! (that said, i got a couple i found at Tuesday Morning (one and-a two) for my sister's daughter. but they don't know that!)
I found a fractal one with Riemann spheres, but it was only sold in the US. I bought it for some other time. @Lost Salient I completely forgot I was going to get him the 3D NY one (not that it would have fit in my luggage) - my sister and I are pooling our money for next year.
There's one around that's entirely black, but that seems like a copout. Going to search the national gallery today for something really agonizing.
For Christmas my little brother got her a miniature jigsaw. 150 pieces, each absolutely minuscule and, she quickly discovered, the same shape. It came in a packet that looked like a test tube. The image was of seven swans flying across a blue sky.
It took her two days to finish it. I've never heard her swear so much in my life.
She's now started on a 2,000 piece one Dad got her.
And the devious bastards cut it so there aren't any corners.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
@crwth
Did this one other day
Edit: The roof opens and closes ( it was a PAIN)
And I also got some Metal Earth model kits, not really a puzzle, but I'll post them here regardless:
I just need Enterprise D to complete the Star Trek Set. I hope they make more Star Trek models eventually.
...and definately want them to make Firefly Serenity ship and Rick's flying car from Rick and Morty.
Buuuut I have a 6 year old and a cat so ....