Do you like to do jigsaw puzzles?

[Travel60]

I've always loved puzzles. Growing up there was usually one going. My brother and I give each other 1,000 piecers for Christmas.

As my kids grew up, I kept one going on dining room table. It could be there for weeks and we would just work on it. Provided great time to talk about life and what's going on. Now my son and his fiance trade puzzles with me. I just bought them a 1,000 piece puzzle of the place they will be married and as soon as I can get my camera over to their new house I plan to have a photo of the house made into a 1,000 piece puzzle.

My son, though, works them til they are done....into the night, 1,000 piece done in a day. I sort of like having it there to work on.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I’ve done a few puzzles this year, and am doing a 1000 piece puzzle now that has posters of many Broadway shows. During the summer, I especially like doing puzzles while having a Phillies Baseball game on, if it’s a day game.

My most recently finished puzzle. It was 500 pieces. I have passed it along to a friend.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

I love jigsaw puzzles, but only do ones on my iPad now. Every morning for years I’ve done a daily jigsaw puzzle with my morning coffee…196 pieces, just enough to get my fix but not devote a lot of time to it. It’s just called “Jigsaw Puzzle” in the app store and currently Mickey Mouse is on the icon. It’s not a Disney puzzle app, but does have a collection of Disney puzzles.

 

[nycdisneygal]

Didnt really do many growing up but my kids have always liked it. When we did our Alaska cruise we bought a Liberty Puzzle in Ketchikan (back in 2017!!). we finally did it over this mem day weekend when we rented a beautiful beach house but had horrendous weather. My teen who normally is not fun had a good time doing it with us so I got some more for our Air B n B trip in a couple weeks!

 

[tasha99]

I love them, but only do them on vacation. I don't do them at home anymore because my current cats are too helpful. I think 500 pieces is the sweet spot--not too easy, but doable in a few hours. I used to do bigger puzzles back in the day, but at home, where I could devote more time to them.

 

[disneyworldsk]

I love them, but only do them on vacation. I don't do them at home anymore because my current cats are too helpful. I think 500 pieces is the sweet spot--not too easy, but doable in a few hours. I used to do bigger puzzles back in the day, but at home, where I could devote more time to them.

yep! Cats!!

 

[OrangeBirdGirl]

Like them if a good scene. We have a finished basement and a table and chairs down there that we will built lego sets on or do a puzzle so we don't see the mess on our main floor. I like our main floor to look spotless always so I couldn't stand looking at an unfinished puzzle for weeks. As we go in spurts, work on a puzzle maybe an hour a couple times a week so it takes awhile.

 

[AshleyFranm]

Yes, I like and play jigsaw puzzles. But rarely do I play because Jumble Answer is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue.

 

[kymom99]

I love to do puzzles and have heard that it is actually good for brain development. However, I haven’t worked any big ones in years because of my incorrigible cat.

 

[ozliz]

I remember enjoying puzzles occasionally in the past. These days I have playful and inquisitive cats. Therefore no puzzles for me!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Yes, I like and play jigsaw puzzles. But rarely do I play because Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue.

Welcome to the dis, Ashley.

 

[leebee]

We have a dear friend who is into jigsaw puzzles. She ALWAYS has one going. It's become tradition that when we go to their house for NYE, we do a puzzle. The men often wimp out on us, but Barbara and I will work a puzzle until the wee small hours, trying to finish it; once we saw both the midnight NYE celebration and the dawn of the new year! They have a summer place off the coast and when we go out there, we also always do puzzles- sometimes several if the weather is iffy or rainy. DH and I have several puzzles here at home, but don't really have a good place to do them. I need a puzzle mat, so we can roll it up when we need the space. OH and I have a whole bunch of cookie sheets (yard sale/goodwill) that I sort pieces onto, so they can be stacked to the side when we aren't puzzling over them!

 

[SleeplessInTO]

I love puzzles. My most recent one below.

Something soothing about creating order out of the chaos. Never mind that it was me that dumped the pieces out in the first place.

 

[lucas]

Nope. I do not enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles. Not at all.

 

[E&Cmom]

I have really gotten into puzzle the last few years. There is always one on the go. I noticed I tend to do more in the colder months though. Recently finished this one:

 

[disneyseniors]

Count me in the "don't" like puzzles camp!
It makes me nervous to see all those pieces and try to find the exact right spot for the exact right piece! I don't have the patience for that.
However,, my husband loves them and keeps one going all the time. We haven't eaten at our kitchen table for a long time! but that's okay, he's happy

Well, I'm going to have to eat my words!!! I started doing 300 pc bigpiece puzzles that my Mom loves to do. I found one that I really thought was beautiful and I decided to give it a try.
That was last winter, and I am the proud owner of at least 30 puzzles including some 500 pieces, LOL.
Never say never. I found it relaxing, which I thought wasn't possible. It's also satisfying to finish one of these beauties. Now I am hooked and eat my words of the previous post. I also found out that I am a "puzzle snob" and only like to do Charles Wysocki puzzles.

 

[disneyseniors]

I love doing puzzles! I find it very relaxing. I've done several a year for the last few years. But the pandemic kicked me into high gear with puzzles. I've done 50 puzzles since last March. Most of them were 1000 pieces but I did 2 that were 750 pieces and 3 or 4 that were 1500. I love Charles Wysocki puzzles so that's what I've done the most of but I've done several Disney puzzles as well and a few other random ones. My method for assembling is to pull all of the edge pieces first and assemble the frame. Then I sort the remaining pieces by color onto the 4 sorting trays and go from there. I don't like to have all the pieces randomly scattered around the board -- that's very stressful for me. My sister-in-law and her husband came to visit a few months ago and brought a 2000 piece puzzle for us to work on while they were here. Their method is to put all the pieces all over the table with no rhyme or reason. That drove me nuts. I did not find that relaxing at all.

I don't have anywhere to keep a puzzle out all of the time so I have Jigthings Jigsort puzzle case. The one in the link is for a 500 piece puzzle but the one I have is for 1500 pieces (and has 4 sorting trays as opposed to 2). This case easily stores under my couch when I'm not working on the puzzle at the kitchen table. If you like to do puzzles but don't want to leave them out on the table when you're not working on them, I highly recommend this case. It's well worth the money.

I feel the same way you do about just scattering pieces randomly on the table. My husband does puzzles this way and it drives me crazy. But I drive him crazy too, LOL, because he doesn't know how I can do puzzles my way. I put the sorted pieces on paper plates. I sort them by sections, for example: Across the bottom of the puzzle,, or the left top, right top, or by 2 houses at a time, horses and people, that kind of thing. They have to fit in some category before I can do them.
We have a puzzle table that was given to us which is a big help too.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Funny this thread has come up again- I haven't done a puzzle in a while, probably at least a year. Yesterday I started thinking how nice it would be to set up a puzzle in our basement. I have a whole box full of 500 piece-ers from Dollar Tree to choose from because I can't resist them. Then I realized; we had a pretty chilly day yesterday. Somehow I associate doing puzzles with the cooler months. I think I'll dig the box out of my closet and choose one to set up.

 

[Walt's Dream]

Can not stand them! But love Crosswords!

 

[DodgerGirl]

My mom has always liked doing jigsaw puzzles ever since I was little and my mom and I would always do jigsaw puzzles because I had a bunch of puzzles in my playroom as a little girl and Mom and I would put them together a lot and then she would frame them in my room when we finished them. Even today my mom likes jigsaw puzzles and my dad and I give my mom jigsaw puzzles for Christmas sometimes and she loves them. And she has lighthouse puzzles and Thomas Kinkade puzzles as well. And my mom buys a lot of bottles of Liquid Puzzle Saver by Milton Bradley which is an excellent puzzle glue that really works great