The jigsaw puzzle thread.

gBAZ

Lets post our jigsaw puzzle related stuff here.

My latest jigsaw puzzle acquisition:



Some resources/links:
http://puzzle-forum.de/ < German forum Thread specifically for 5,000 or higher piece count puzzles
^^even more specific, The BIG LIST on flickr <-- in English, thank god
^trying to collect all of the 5,000+ piece puzzles is impossible I tell you! I was curious to try, and literally found NONE of the older puzzles for sale anywhere!

My puzzle collection and "looking for" <link/site coming soon>

ps. I'll try to get my own little site up and running for my personal collection and stuff. So for now I'll use the pa forums attatchments. (or I'll start an imgur gallery at least)

edit1: new link to a blog with some older puzzle related stuff.
https://2warpstoneptune.com/category/jigsaw-puzzles/
I really want that Eerie and Creepy puzzles! really rare.

Tommy2Hands

would you like to play a game

Munkus Beaver

Protip: start with the corners
Pro tip: don't fuck around with them puzzles with big blue skies

Brolo

a friend of mine got this as a joke when we were in college

we spent very large portions of 2nd and 3rd year trying to put it together

gBAZ

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Protip: start with the corners
Pro tip: don't fuck around with them puzzles with big blue skies

Solid color, or very near same color, puzzles are tough. I usually just end up testing each puzzle piece.
^this includes most 'outer space' puzzles too.

I would never ever buy a solid color puzzle, those all white or all black puzzles are just, well not as fun as finishing a nice fantasy puzzle.

OmnipotentBagel

Ever do one of those edge-less puzzles? Those things are rough.

Donovan Puppyfucker

Yo.

Duke 2.0

Appropriately, it's a puzzle of the vomit people make when they think of doing said puzzle

Speed Racer

they

really couldn't think of a better subject for their puzzle than "a whole bunch of baked beans"?

OmnipotentBagel

Speed Racer wrote: »

they

really couldn't think of a better subject for their puzzle than "a whole bunch of baked beans"?

I think it's just because of how indistinguishable it will make the pieces. I have a similarly themed puzzle using coffee beans (which, granted, are a much less gross-looking subject)

Donovan Puppyfucker

Speed Racer wrote: »

they

really couldn't think of a better subject for their puzzle than "a whole bunch of baked beans"?

There's a bunch of them that are similar, one's a picture of Smarties for example. The point is meant to be that they are difficult to do without being 5000 piece puzzles as big as a wall.

Straightzi

My favorite jigsaw puzzles are the ones that are like, small objects arranged to look like other things

Like, this looks like a general store from a distance, but then you get close and you realize it's all made out of matchsticks and twine

It both adds a weird layer of difficulty and a layer of discovery to the whole thing

I'm also fond of murder mystery jigsaws, but that's much more of a dumb novelty thing

OmnipotentBagel

Straightzi wrote: »

My favorite jigsaw puzzles are the ones that are like, small objects arranged to look like other things

Like, this looks like a general store from a distance, but then you get close and you realize it's all made out of matchsticks and twine

It both adds a weird layer of difficulty and a layer of discovery to the whole thing

I'm also fond of murder mystery jigsaws, but that's much more of a dumb novelty thing

I had one of those! It came with a newspaper full of information about the mystery and you had to use clues in the puzzle to solve the case. It's really cool (in possibly the most nerdy definition of "cool" yet).

Goatmon

Brolo wrote: »

a friend of mine got this as a joke when we were in college

we spent very large portions of 2nd and 3rd year trying to put it together

That looks amazing. 8->

Butler

Two dimensional puzzles inferior

Three dimensional puzzles superior

#pipe

My wife had a concussion for 8 months last year and while she had trouble watching TV or using a computer or reading books or playing video games, puzzles were something she could do to pass the time.

During this time I realized that good puzzles are really hard to find and the majority of them you find on the shelf in toy stores are shit.

Cello

Butler wrote: »

Two dimensional puzzles inferior

Three dimensional puzzles superior

I fucking loved Puzz3D growing up you have no idea

Straightzi

One time in college I got back early from winter break, and nobody was there except for one of my friends and we didn't have any food other than the dozen donuts I'd bought on my way back to campus. There was nothing to do, so we ate those dozen donuts and assembled a 3D puzzle. It was a hellish experience, and a couple weeks later we took that puzzle down to the frozen river, doused it in rubbing alcohol, and set it ablaze.

OmnipotentBagel

If I wanted to build something in three dimensions, I'd buy (more) Legos.

Straightzi

The big reason I find the 3D ones disappointing is that they aren't held to the rigid standards that other jigsaw puzzles are. Like, there's a lot of ways to fit the pieces together and have it still work. They frequently have guide numbers on the back, but if you have to resort to a cheat like that, then what's the point of it being a puzzle?

Joolander

https://youtu.be/rzpuCSZFhIg

Bedigunz

Joolander wrote: »

https://youtu.be/rzpuCSZFhIg

I'm very sad this video cut off right before the point where Schmidt asks Winston if he knows what color he is.

Tossrock

Butler wrote: »

Two dimensional puzzles inferior

Three dimensional puzzles superior

holy shit this just opened up a part of my memory that I hadn't thought of in more than a decade

gBAZ

Got this a few days ago.


Magic the gathering has so many cards now, and usually the art is good on nearly all of them.
WotC should make more non-card MTG merchandise dang it.

Peas

Pure White Hell
1000 micro pieces

Rorshach Kringle

https://youtu.be/MWZLhYKMuKs

Pinfeldorf

Butler wrote: »

Two dimensional puzzles inferior

Three dimensional puzzles superior

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.

Butler

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.

Ranlin

When my mother in law was a little girl she was blind for a while, and would do giant puzzles just by feel.

I wonder how she would do today.

Hirocon

Here's the biggest jigsaw puzzle I ever completed (1000 pieces):


For a thousand piece puzzle, it's pretty easy since there is a lot of readily identifiable unique detail. You can pick up almost any piece and fairly quickly figure out where it goes. That's my favorite kind of puzzle: large, but realistically solvable.

tynic

Every year, for his birthday, my family buy my father the most difficult jigsaw we possibly can. Notable past mentions: one that was transparent and 3D, one that had the image double printed on both sides, but with a 90 degree rotation and a flip, and a 2500 piece symmetrical dot painting. 2014's effort was completely white.

I should probably start the hunt for this years shortly.

Label

I do not think I would like to experience some of the puzzles here.



... I'm pretty sure I'd rather bathe with a cheese grater.

tynic

For my father's 60th we got a local puzzle artist to hand-carve a wooden jigsaw. The image was a photo of the mosel valley he took the year before:




It also included several extra near-duplicate 'decoy' pieces, just to screw with him.

Label

that's a pretty neat photograph.

gBAZ

So I got these 3 puzzles about a week ago. I didn't know they existed.
Later I find out there is a 4th in the series. Cool.

edit: Found all artists: Keith Parkinson, Elmore, and Easley.

Rankenphile

There's a series called Wasgij (jigsaw backwards, get it?) Puzzles where the box image isn't the solution -- the puzzle itself is what's behind the frame, typically what everybody on the cover image is reacting to.

Box image examples:





I always thought that was a cool idea.

Magic Pink

I really want to get another copy of the House on Haunted Hill puzzle by Springbok. And that Pac-Man screen one.



I loved it as a kid.

Dis'

tynic wrote: »

Every year, for his birthday, my family buy my father the most difficult jigsaw we possibly can. Notable past mentions: one that was transparent and 3D, one that had the image double printed on both sides, but with a 90 degree rotation and a flip, and a 2500 piece symmetrical dot painting. 2014's effort was completely white.

I should probably start the hunt for this years shortly.

Construct a puzzle made of identical blocks with patterns of magnets along the edges that need to match up correctly have the blocks connect...

..then put a timer chip in each block that will toggle the pattern from one to another at preset times.

Dis'

I've always liked the look of rules based laser cut puzzle like this one

gBAZ

A new link I refound. Of some blog with some older/rarer puzzles.
https://2warpstoneptune.com/category/jigsaw-puzzles/
I really want that Eerie and Creepy puzzles! really rare.

gBAZ

Found a flickr account, if this is someones collection, they must be rich.
Nearly all from known paintings.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/112149769@N08/