Do you like to do jigsaw puzzles?

[bobbiwoz]

I like doing puzzles, DH does not. I have a puzzle caddy to store most when I am not working on it.

This time of the year our family has had a tradition to do “Bear House.” Without any visitors, it’s up to me and DH to do it, and he and I are working on it. I am very happy, it’s working out for us.

For whatever reason, this just says Christmas to us...from another year!
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We finished it today! First time that DH did more than one piece. We put aside some time on a few days, put a Christmas CD on, and enjoyed working together.

 

[crazylady]

I like 1000 piece puzzles. Normally we finish them pretty quickly but last year I bought a portfolio looking thing we use now when putting them together. If we get bored, it all folds together and slides under the couch.

I have one now that is too hard. It's a library with books all in muted colors and alot of woodwork. It's just way to brown/beige for me. The only other one I couldn't finish was a two sided one.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

I’m so glad I started this thread. I’ve truly enjoyed reading how puzzles bring people together.

Someone upthread linked a puzzle organizer, and I purchased that and a 500 piece puzzle today. I like the fact I can fold it up and put it away when Im not working on it

 

[Babsy]

I enjoy puzzles.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I do NOT find something like that relaxing!

 

[bluezy]

Yeah, I like them. I get mostly 500 piece puzzles at Dollar Tree and set them up on a long table in the basement so I'm out of the way. I try to find puzzles that are challenging because I'm pretty good at them. I love Wysocki puzzles for the paintings but they're just too easy for me so I avoid them. I find it very relaxing sorting through the pieces and putting like ones in groups before I start the puzzle. Once someone gifted me a puzzle that was two sided and had similar pictures on either side. *THAT* was frustrating and I gave up because I was getting stressed out. Who needs that?

After I finish a puzzle, I carefully break it up, put it back in the box and tape the box closed. Our local VFW takes them for distributing to nursing homes...or at least they used to. I have a stack all ready to go for when the virus all-clear finally comes.

I agree that the Charles Wysocki puzzles are usually very easy. I like to alternate them with a difficult puzzle because they provide a little relief from the mentally challenging puzzles. When I'm working on a difficult puzzle, I sometimes find it hard to step away from it when I start gaining momentum and getting a lot of pieces together. When I'm working on a Wysocki puzzle I find it much easier to walk away from it because it's easy to get back in the swing of things when I get it out again.

 

[bluezy]

A spinoff question for the puzzlers here...do you look at the box or poster of the puzzle while assembling it or do you work blindly? I always have the picture out to guide me but a friend of mine never looks at the box/poster while working on the puzzle. Before she told me that, it never occurred to me not to use the picture while putting the puzzle together.

 

[PollyannaMom]

A spinoff question for the puzzlers here...do you look at the box or poster of the puzzle while assembling it or do you work blindly? I always have the picture out to guide me but a friend mine never looks at the box/poster while working on the puzzle. Before she told me that, it never occurred to me not to use the picture while putting the puzzle together.

I always prop the box up to look at.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

A spinoff question for the puzzlers here...do you look at the box or poster of the puzzle while assembling it or do you work blindly? I always have the picture out to guide me but a friend mine never looks at the box/poster while working on the puzzle. Before she told me that, it never occurred to me not to use the picture while putting the puzzle together.

We always have the box handy, but we don't always use it, if that makes sense. It is sometimes good for reference in placing blobs of completed sections of puzzle, but lots of times we just work away at different areas without reference. Of course we have an image in our mind of what it should look like to begin with, since we have previously looked at the box to choose it.

This, of course, goes without saying, for puzzles like Ravensburger's new Krypt series of puzzles, which are made up of gradients of one colour, silver or gold, for example, or The Impossible Puzzle, which is clear plastic pieces. I would still find those incredibly challenging even with the box sitting right in front of me.

 

[BrianL]

I do some casually - I really like the 4 packs of the Disney Thomas Kincade ones. 500 peices is about the limit of my patience. I have several made and have glued some - I'd like to come up with a display of some kind.

 

[NAB]

A spinoff question for the puzzlers here...do you look at the box or poster of the puzzle while assembling it or do you work blindly? I always have the picture out to guide me but a friend mine never looks at the box/poster while working on the puzzle. Before she told me that, it never occurred to me not to use the picture while putting the puzzle together.

I love when 5hey come with a poster....I usually have puzzle pieces in the top and bottom of the box....lol

My daughter tells me that is cheating, she doesn’t need it at all.

 

[disneyworldsk]

https://www.wdwinfo.com/disney-merchandise/putting-the-pieces-together/
I wrote this article on the disunplugged in the fall. I got new lighting for my puzzles for the holidays too as a gift.

 

[StephMK]

I dont really like them, trying to find the pieces just feel annoying. MIL always had one out at Thanksgiving and the rest of my family enjoys them. She put it on the dining room table under a hard table mat.

I bought one and forgot to set it out at Thanksgiving. I'll set it out tomorrow and let the family get to work. I also bought DH a Cubs puzzle as a gift.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

A spinoff question for the puzzlers here...do you look at the box or poster of the puzzle while assembling it or do you work blindly? I always have the picture out to guide me but a friend of mine never looks at the box/poster while working on the puzzle. Before she told me that, it never occurred to me not to use the picture while putting the puzzle together.

I look at the box, which I have propped up off to the side. I did a Titanic-themed mystery puzzle once that had a different photo on the box than what the actual puzzle was- I liked putting that one together a lot. When you put it together it revealed the answer to the mystery written in a booklet included with the puzzle.

I do a lot of puzzles with repetitive things on them-piles of buttons, etc. I also really like Autumn themed puzzles for some reason.

 

[emer95]

I always prop the box. I also always have a helper.

 

[PlamenSpouk]

Yes I love Jigsaw Puzzles. But I do them on this app. It have huge collection of very beautiful jigsaw puzzles - all free!
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realistic.jigsaw.puzzle.game

 

[MrsPete]

Love 'em.

 

[low-key]

I haven't dine one in decades, I would like to play again someday

 

[Frozen Canuck]

I realize this thread is getting older now, but I just wanted to mention something that I have been participating in puzzle-wise, that has been great.

Just after Christmas of this year, someone in our town started a puzzle and book exchange group on Facebook. Now, this would have been fabulous way back at the beginning of the pandemic when there was that huge puzzle shortage, but it is still just as good now. The page allows people in our town to list puzzles (and books) they have completed and are willing to pass on to someone else for free (there is no selling allowed on the board and items that are offered are assumed given and not loaned). I have gotten several new puzzles to work on over the last few months this way, including one of the Ravensburger Villainous ones. The group does allow you to post puzzles that might be missing a piece or two, asking that you just disclose the missing pieces when you post them. Some of the puzzles have made rounds to multiple homes, the senior center, etc. and are no longer left to languish in a dusty cupboard after they have been completed.

 

[lucas]

Nope. I don't enjoy them at all.