It is jigzaw puzzle season

[mysteryowl]

We started out slow with (2) 250 piece ones, then 300, and now we there is a 500 piece one out. It is really fun to have a puzzle going on a card table at this time of year. We have a tradition of writing a message on the back of the puzzle when it is finished, plus signatures. The puzzle is then passed along to a friend or family member.

Do you do puzzles at this time of year?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. One doesn't do jigsaw puzzles if one has cats.

[mysteryowl]

2. We have a cat!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Yours must be one of the rare cats who doesn't compulsively conduct gravity tests.

[mysteryowl]

4. Ha!

I understand. There is some of that on occasion.

We put a towel on the puzzle at night.

[Siwsan]

6. I've switched to doing on-line jig saw puzzles

They are great because the cats can't mess with them and you can't lose any pieces.

[PoliticAverse]

7. Sure you do...

you just don't finish them.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. I had three cats and I still did jigsaw puzzles.

[Fresh_Start]

28. sure you do

it adds to the challenge...looking for the missing pieces and trying to fit the chewed pieces into the right space on the puzzle

[Lars39]

5. I do digital ones at jigsawplanet.com

[mysteryowl]

8. I tried that once. It was not for me.

I like time away from the computer and to feel the pieces. Plus, you can't flip it over and write a message to pass along.

[Lars39]

12. I miss the sorting and finding the edges,

but we’ve downsized and don’t have the room now. I like the idea of signing them and passing them on to friends.

[Siwsan]

9. I use that one, and thejigsawpuzzles.com

I'd love to find a program where I can make my own puzzles.

[Lars39]

13. You mean convert one of your own photos to a puzzle?

I haven’t done it yet, but I think it can be done at jigsawplanet.

[Siwsan]

15. Yes! I'll have to check that out

Thanks!

[shraby]

10. I like jigsaws too. The 1000 plus sizes. Mr. Shraby put an end to cat problems.

He took a large flat lazy susan, connected it to a piece of fairly thin plywood mostly for weight.
The the kids had a lot of hot wheel tracks he screwed to the edges of the plywood. That way the cat couldn't push them on the floor and I could sit at the coffee table working it and turn it as needed.

It was large enough to hold a 2 or 3 thousand piece puzzle.

[zanana1]

24. That was clever!

Could he come to my house?

[nocoincidences]

11. It was always a family tradition around the holidays

to have a jigsaw puzzle going.

I am, alas, owned by 4 cats who think jigsaw pieces are provided so they can be distributed around the house like easter eggs.

And so I have also resorted to online puzzles to satisfy my impulses.

I prefer the puzzles on Jigidi, but there are several sites out there that can meet my needs.

[KT2000]

14. Yes!

Our second hand stores have lots of them - good ones too. There are so many pretty ones.
When I have house guests, I like to keep a puzzle going so guests have something to do while I fix meals etc.

[mysteryowl]

31. Perfect!

[KT2000]

41. Actually got the idea

from the auto repair shop - puzzles for waiting customers!

[mysteryowl]

42. Nice idea for that too.

Any waiting rooms for that matter. Look out, this might become a Blue-Wave Fad!

[snacker]

16. Yes, it's a winter tradition here

especially at the holidays when everyone is home. I usually just leave one on a card table so people can work on it whenever. Unfortunately, our standard poodle is the perfect height to walk by and grab a piece. Last year, our 1000 piece puzzle turned into a 998 piece puzzle. We got smart and put a fortress of chairs around the table to keep her away. I love your tradition of writing messages and putting signatures on the back of the puzzle. We do exchange and share puzzles. I'll often make one puzzle on my own, but it really is more fun as a group activity.

[lame54]

17. I think you are ready for this...

https://www.amazon.com/Educa-Sistine-Chapel-Puzzle-18000-Piece/dp/B00I049QOY/ref=asc_df_B00I049QOY/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312125857837&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13344297520000049829&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032482&hvtargid=pla-526436402615&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=67812628011&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312125857837&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13344297520000049829&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032482&hvtargid=pla-526436402615

[mysteryowl]

30. 18,000 pieces!!

Not in this lifetime!

[hibbing]

47. I had to look and came across a 32,000 piece one!

https://tinyurl.com/ycj7qu2r

Peace

[lame54]

48. How big a table would i need

[Nay]

18. Yes! We don't have any new ones yet, though, so a trip to the store is in order. Or Amazon.

We often have a puzzle going on in the dining room -- tired of reading or the internet? Hands aching from crafts or crochet? Go work on the puzzle for a while.

[tavernier]

20. I recently read that jigsaw puzzles are even better for your brain than crossword puzzles.

Apparently because several senses are applied to problem solving with jigsaw puzzles versus crossword puzzles.

[mysteryowl]

25. This is good news. I have an extra challenge...

The current puzzle being worked on is NOT what is on the picture of the box! Ha! It was purchased new.
A fun twist to the game!

[Thekaspervote]

21. Yes..puzzles are great! Expensive, but we've taken a real liking to the liberty puzzles

[tavernier]

26. Actually some very nice and challenging 500 piecers

at the Dollar Tree for a buck. Although once in a while a piece is missing.

[mysteryowl]

29. Liberty puzzles are special works of art. Look them up.

We have some of the Dollar store puzzles. The pieces are a little flimsy and YES some of the pieces are missing. I thought it was the cat!

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Obligatory Republican jigsaw joke ...

Bush calls Cheney because he is so proud of having finished a jigsaw puzzle.

"Hey, Dick", says Bush, "I am so proud because the box this puzzle came in says 5 to 8 years on the side and I finished it in just under 6 months."

Cheney sighs and says, "You are indeed a genius, George."

Bush says, "Hey, Dick, I'm having trouble with my new puzzle, though, can you help me?"

Cheney says, "Sure, George, what's your problem."

Bush says, "Well, none of the pieces fit together in any way. I didn't have this problem with the other puzzle."

Cheney says, "Well, look on the cover of the puzzle box and tell me what kind of picture you see - that should give you a hint."

Bush says, "All I see is a picture of a really big rooster."

Cheney thinks for a minute and says "George, put all the cornflakes back in the box ..."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=110&topic_id=4833&mesg_id=5570

[mysteryowl]

32. Ha!

[sinkingfeeling]

23. I've been doing a 500 piece puzzle every day this week. Bored at my son's when he's at work.

[Phentex]

27. We do them every Thanksgiving...

No less than 1000 pieces. We've been on a Ravensburger kick for the past few years. Some really fun ones were a series called Proverbidioms - word puns and phrases depicted in the puzzle.

[mysteryowl]

33. 1000 pieces is challenging. Good for groups maybe.

I get frustrated. I like to have the satisfaction of clicking a pieces into place fairly regularly.

[kydo]

34. Sadly, I am one that does 1,000 piece puzzles in a day.

Not even working on it all day either. And I have cats.

I love puzzles. Just did a Game of Thrones


And since I had a GoT theme for Halloween, I put it outside for that night. It took a whopping 3hrs to do.

I am all in favor of jigsaw puzzle season.

[tavernier]

35. I hate you.

[mysteryowl]

36. Are you joking?

I never, ever heard of anyone doing a 1000 piece puzzle a day.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. They are cheating. The cats help.

[kydo]

39. No they. Just me.

On the GoT puzzle the cats were not an issue. Now once it was done they lay on it and knock all buildings everywhere.

[kydo]

38. For real. But I am a freak.

Got proof for both. It's insane I know. But true.

[mysteryowl]

40. Fess-up, do you do code breaking for a living?

+ = code breaker

[kydo]

43. LOL

But no just a domestic goddess.

[llmart]

44. I usually have one going starting in the late fall...

but last year I didn't get the table out. I found I was getting nothing else accomplished whenever I started on a puzzle. They are highly addictive to me. My family grew up doing jigsaw puzzles. My local library always has many for sale during their used book sales so I only pay a dollar or two for some really great ones and then when I'm done I turn them back into the library for resale to someone else.

[LakeSuperiorView]

45. tRump was pround to have finished one in a week, because the box said 2-4 Years

[a kennedy]

46. We don't but my B & S-I-L do, we're going there for thanksgiving......

I just bought a puzzle with 900 pieces for them!!!!!! They usually do 300 or 400, I’m sure they’re either gonna love it or I will be donating it to someone else.