If you're a jigsaw puzzle enthusiast I have a question for you

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I love puzzles. I have done 5000 piece ones of water/mountains. So frustrating but so fun at the same time!

I have now resorted to the free ones on an app. I can finish them in a few hours and no missing pieces. Miss the huge ones though! I do have one my dd got, well I got her for her birthday that we need to start again but I will wait til the weather gets cold.

Wow 5000! I haven't done one that large. Largest was something like 3500.

I have a 1000 piece Disney one that I bought in the parks in 2011. It's a Thomas Kinkade kind:



The only downside is they really like to make ones that are 750 and I want more of a challenge. It can be expensive to get the Disney Thomas Kinkade ones (at least through Amazon) for the 1000 piece ones whereas the 750 are much more reasonable in price.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

So who is ready to take on the Ravensburger Disney puzzle with 40,320 pieces and ringing in at $415.82 on Amazon? The images look beautiful, but it is a little out of my price range to be able to take on the challenge. If it is like other super huge puzzles I have read about, the endeavor is made ever so slightly easier in that they generally package each image in its own bag. You then only have to sort through 1/10th of the pieces instead of all of them as you try to find the correct one. One reviewer said that it was taking them about a month to complete each 4,032 piece section. I would hate to have a piece go missing out of a puzzle like that!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

So who is ready to take on the Ravensburger Disney puzzle with 40,320 pieces and ringing in at $415.82 on Amazon? The images look beautiful, but it is a little out of my price range to be able to take on the challenge. If it is like other super huge puzzles I have read about, the endeavor is made ever so slightly easier in that they generally package each image in its own bag. You then only have to sort through 1/10th of the pieces instead of all of them as you try to find the correct one. One reviewer said that it was taking them about a month to complete each 4,032 piece section. I would hate to have a piece go missing out of a puzzle like that!

Holy cow! and on Amazon's website it says it measures: 22.3' x 6.2' if fully put together in one puzzle. I just cannot even picture how large that is.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Holy cow! and on Amazon's website it says it measures: 22.3' x 6.2' if fully put together in one puzzle. I just cannot even picture how large that is.

The good news is that if you like the images, you can get the five on the top row as individual 1000 piece puzzles. Just do a search for "Ravensburger Disney Collector's Edition" and they should come up. There is Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow White, and Fantasia. I was wondering if maybe they released those five this year and will release the last five next year? (Purely speculation on my part.) I had seen the original puzzle some time ago, but didn't realize they sold the scenes individually. I know what I'm going to be adding to my birthday list!

 

[monorailsilver]

Wow 5000! I haven't done one that large. Largest was something like 3500.

I have a 1000 piece Disney one that I bought in the parks in 2011. It's a Thomas Kinkade kind:
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The only downside is they really like to make ones that are 750 and I want more of a challenge. It can be expensive to get the Disney Thomas Kinkade ones (at least through Amazon) for the 1000 piece ones whereas the 750 are much more reasonable in price.

I used to love the big puzzles, loved the challenge, still do but my house is smaller then my parents so I have no place to keep it for weeks unless we want to eat dinner with puzzle pieces!

I used to buy from Bits and Pieces.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

I used to love the big puzzles, loved the challenge, still do but my house is smaller then my parents so I have no place to keep it for weeks unless we want to eat dinner with puzzle pieces!

Someday I'm hoping to have my husband make me something like the Bits and Pieces puzzle board. It has four thin drawers for sorting pieces, an edge along two of the four sides to contain the pieces, but still be able to slide the finished puzzle off easily, and can be set aside when you aren't working on it. Of course you still need to have a place to move it to, like under a bed or whatever.

Of course they don't make a board that would hold the 6-foot long puzzle, but they do have one large enough to hold a 1500-piece puzzle.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I used to love the big puzzles, loved the challenge, still do but my house is smaller then my parents so I have no place to keep it for weeks unless we want to eat dinner with puzzle pieces!

I used to buy from Bits and Pieces.

Oh I hear you on the space!

My sister's godmother (who I was closer to than my own godparents) made me a large board out of wood with raised rounded edges when I was in middle school so I could have a place to put my puzzles on and move the board if needed but before I had that board I was doing puzzles on the coffee table in the family room or a piece of poster board which wasn't ideal of course and my mom as much as she loved seeing me do puzzles didn't like having her coffee table taken over lol. The part of the board where the puzzle would go measures 32"X26" so it works for a decent chunk of puzzles.

I've got the board on a card table in one of my extra bedrooms right now and I tend to watch the DIS Unplugged episodes (both WDW and USO) while doing crafts or puzzles or I'll just put on other YouTube videos like ride/area music, etc. I call that room my craft/library/luggage storage room lol

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The good news is that if you like the images, you can get the five on the top row as individual 1000 piece puzzles. Just do a search for "Ravensburger Disney Collector's Edition" and they should come up. There is Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow White, and Fantasia. I was wondering if maybe they released those five this year and will release the last five next year? (Purely speculation on my part.) I had seen the original puzzle some time ago, but didn't realize they sold the scenes individually. I know what I'm going to be adding to my birthday list!

Ohhh that's cool to get the individual ones!

In general I like the quality of Ravensburger too.

It's funny you mention a birthday list. While I haven't bought any on it yet I do have an Amazon Wish List called "puzzles"

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I used to buy from Bits and Pieces.

Someday I'm hoping to have my husband make me something like the Bits and Pieces puzzle board. It has four thin drawers for sorting pieces, an edge along two of the four sides to contain the pieces, but still be able to slide the finished puzzle off easily, and can be set aside when you aren't working on it. Of course you still need to have a place to move it to, like under a bed or whatever.

Of course they don't make a board that would hold the 6-foot long puzzle, but they do have one large enough to hold a 1500-piece puzzle.

Ok so I just Googled bits and Pieces and wow that's soo cool all the different typs of puzzles organizers they have.

I must admit IDK if people call it cheating but I put my end pieces in a ziplock bag (though I see Bits and Pieces has trays) for the next time I put the puzzle together. I just want to get down to making the puzzle instead of having to sort each time. I haven't framed any of my puzzles yet because I like the idea of putting it together again and again but when I was like 10/11 I felt the need to take photos with a disposable camera of my finished work the first time I put a puzzle together. I can only image what the 1hr photo attendant was thinking .

 

[Frozen Canuck]

I must admit IDK if people call it cheating but I put my end pieces in a ziplock bag (though I see Bits and Pieces has trays) for the next time I put the puzzle together. I just want to get down to making the puzzle instead of having to sort each time. I haven't framed any of my puzzles yet because I like the idea of putting it together again and again but when I was like 10/11 I felt the need to take photos with a disposable camera of my finished work the first time I put a puzzle together. I can only image what the 1hr photo attendant was thinking .

I have a Ravensburger puzzle app on my iPad and there is the option for it to pre-sort out the edge pieces for you. Since Ravensburger is the expert on puzzles, I'm going to assume that they make the rules, and if they say it is okay to separate the outer pieces from the interior ones, then it can't possibly be cheating.

I actually think bagging the outer pieces is a great idea. I redo most of the puzzles that I own as well, they are too expensive to not get multiple uses from, and we always set aside the edge pieces first. I don't see any harm in cutting 5 or 10 minutes off of your assembly time by having them pre-sorted.

Too funny on the whole photo thing!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I have a Ravensburger puzzle app on my iPad and there is the option for it to pre-sort out the edge pieces for you. Since Ravensburger is the expert on puzzles, I'm going to assume that they make the rules, and if they say it is okay to separate the outer pieces from the interior ones, then it can't possibly be cheating.

I actually think bagging the outer pieces is a great idea. I redo most of the puzzles that I own as well, they are too expensive to not get multiple uses from, and we always set aside the edge pieces first. I don't see any harm in cutting 5 or 10 minutes off of your assembly time by having them pre-sorted.

Too funny on the whole photo thing!

Well that makes me feel totally better now knowing that the app lets you presort .

I don't know when I decided to start bagging the end pieces but after I started doing that I was like 'face palm' why didn't I think of this before. It saves time and makes me more inclined to keep doing the puzzles since I'm not doing what I would call the boring stuff before getting to the fun part.

 

[kimblebee]

I have a Ravensburger puzzle app on my iPad and there is the option for it to pre-sort out the edge pieces for you. Since Ravensburger is the expert on puzzles, I'm going to assume that they make the rules, and if they say it is okay to separate the outer pieces from the interior ones, then it can't possibly be cheating.

I actually think bagging the outer pieces is a great idea. I redo most of the puzzles that I own as well, they are too expensive to not get multiple uses from, and we always set aside the edge pieces first. I don't see any harm in cutting 5 or 10 minutes off of your assembly time by having them pre-sorted.

Too funny on the whole photo thing!

There's a puzzle app??

Now I know what to do when I'm bored to death in the hospital.

Thanks

 

[Frozen Canuck]

There's a puzzle app??

Now I know what to do when I'm bored to death in the hospital.

Thanks

Yes, sometimes it goes on sale for "free" as opposed to $2.99 (I think???), but your $2.99 gives you "coins" that you can use to purchase a few puzzles from their puzzle library. They occasionally give puzzles away for free (during the month of Christmas this year...I think there were 24 "gifts") and sometimes they do sales where all puzzles are 50% off (also Christmas, plus one other time during the year, which I am drawing a blank on right now). I did purchase one of their "sack of coins" packages ($8.99) and I still have three hundred coins left after at least a year. I have accumulated 81 puzzles in my collection just by making sure I grabbed all of their free ones, keeping notes and buying the ones that I really want when they are on sale, etc.

Not to derail the thread from jigsaw puzzles, but if you are looking for a slightly different style of puzzle, download the free trial of Pathpix puzzles (Pathpix Lite) and see what you think. I enjoyed them so much, that I ended up buying Pathpix Max. The puzzles weren't super hard, but they were detailed, so there were lots of path matches to make.

 

[aboveH20]

I use those, I think it's called Puzzle Presto. It's large sticker sheets you cover the back with and they work great. My tip for getting the puzzle turned over is to do the puzzle on a card table. When finished, cover the puzzle with a large piece of cardboard. Holding the cardboard and the table at the same time, turn the table upside down. Now you have the puzzle laying on the cardboard with the back side up!

Puzzleists are a dedicated and resourceful breed!

I also do this. I really enjoy putting puzzles together too but I consider doing the edge first a must nowadays

Has anyone ever tackled a round puzzle? Pretty sure that's one I wouldn't finish!

Wow 5000! I haven't done one that large. Largest was something like 3500.

I have a 1000 piece Disney one that I bought in the parks in 2011. It's a Thomas Kinkade kind:
View attachment 253933


The only downside is they really like to make ones that are 750 and I want more of a challenge. It can be expensive to get the Disney Thomas Kinkade ones (at least through Amazon) for the 1000 piece ones whereas the 750 are much more reasonable in price.

Beautiful. I've always said that the castle is my favorite "ride." I'm happy to sit on a bench just staring at it.

So who is ready to take on the Ravensburger Disney puzzle with 40,320 pieces and ringing in at $415.82 on Amazon? The images look beautiful, but it is a little out of my price range to be able to take on the challenge. If it is like other super huge puzzles I have read about, the endeavor is made ever so slightly easier in that they generally package each image in its own bag. You then only have to sort through 1/10th of the pieces instead of all of them as you try to find the correct one. One reviewer said that it was taking them about a month to complete each 4,032 piece section. I would hate to have a piece go missing out of a puzzle like that!

I can't even imagine -- the price or the process.

Someday I'm hoping to have my husband make me something like the Bits and Pieces puzzle board. It has four thin drawers for sorting pieces, an edge along two of the four sides to contain the pieces, but still be able to slide the finished puzzle off easily, and can be set aside when you aren't working on it. Of course you still need to have a place to move it to, like under a bed or whatever.

Of course they don't make a board that would hold the 6-foot long puzzle, but they do have one large enough to hold a 1500-piece puzzle.

See, when I first posted my question I knew there were puzzle enthusiasts in the world. I find it interesting to learn a little more more about the brands, techniques, and "equipment".

There's a puzzle app??

Now I know what to do when I'm bored to death in the hospital.

Thanks

I was thinking the same thing about the app. Haven't checked it out yet, but I plan to, too.

 

[kimblebee]

Puzzleists are a dedicated and resourceful breed!



Has anyone ever tackled a round puzzle? Pretty sure that's one I wouldn't finish!



Beautiful. I've always said that the castle is my favorite "ride." I'm happy to sit on a bench just staring at it.



I can't even imagine -- the price or the process.



See, when I first posted my question I knew there were puzzle enthusiasts in the world. I find it interesting to learn a little more more about the brands, techniques, and "equipment".



I was thinking the same thing about the app. Haven't checked it out yet, but I plan to, too.

I checked it out and on Google Play it's $4.99 Canadian. No way I'm paying for an app so I found a free one. It looks ok and it will pass the time.

 

[monorailsilver]

I use the jigsaw collection app, 3rd row down, 2nd column. It's free. I finished all the puzzles with the original download so I just downloaded more free ones, some you have to pay so I skip those. But it only goes up to 440 pieces.

 

[Mel522]

So who is ready to take on the Ravensburger Disney puzzle with 40,320 pieces and ringing in at $415.82 on Amazon? The images look beautiful, but it is a little out of my price range to be able to take on the challenge. If it is like other super huge puzzles I have read about, the endeavor is made ever so slightly easier in that they generally package each image in its own bag. You then only have to sort through 1/10th of the pieces instead of all of them as you try to find the correct one. One reviewer said that it was taking them about a month to complete each 4,032 piece section. I would hate to have a piece go missing out of a puzzle like that!

I've had my eye on that for a while. I've measured the living room in my basement and if I remove everything, it would fit. The price is the only thing holding me back right now.

Has anyone ever tackled a round puzzle? Pretty sure that's one I wouldn't finish!

I've done a few round puzzles and didn't find them any more difficult than rectangle ones. I think the difficulty comes more from the image than the shape.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

I've had my eye on that for a while. I've measured the living room in my basement and if I remove everything, it would fit. The price is the only thing holding me back right now.

A couple of the comments on Amazon mentioned that they had ordered it directly from Amazon in Germany and that even with shipping, it still came in considerably less. (About $350, if I remember correctly.) Still not super cheap, but less expensive than purchasing in the U.S.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Has anyone ever tackled a round puzzle? Pretty sure that's one I wouldn't finish!

I haven't done a round puzzle but I have done a few shaped ones. The ones I rememer having off the bat is a puzzle shaped like the Statue of Liberty and a whale.

The Statue of Liberty one was probably a little bit harder than the whale one but they weren't extremely difficult though.

 

[BrianL]

Man I was doing a puzzle last night and had assembled the frame except for one piece, which appeared to be missing. I figured the cat knocked it off the table, so I searched and searched for it. I organize the pieces by shape and I just started in on the rest of it, occasionally stopping to look for that errant border piece. I kept thinking about never finding it and how much that will bother me. Just before I went to bed I found the piece hiding with those of a different shape.