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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Puzzles (The Other Kind)
About a year ago, I suddenly got an interest in puzzles - not the Kickstand variety, but the cardboard/wooden/cork kind. I think it had something to do with my 3 year old's infatuation with puzzles that kind of swept me up with it. So, for the past year, I've been putting together a bunch of puzzles - mostly the "Americana" kind (Heronim, Carol Dyer, etc.) - that are 500 to 1,000 pieces.
However, now I've decided to move up to the next level. I recently completed the Lost In a Jigsaw maze/puzzle, and just ordered Part II. These are essentially puzzles within puzzles. The entire picture, which you never get to see unless you want/need to cheat, is a maze of rooms (the first one had stone/brick/shrub walls), and each room is basically a 9-piece puzzle. Once you complete each mini-puzzle, you then have to figure out how to connect each room to the others. While some of the rooms have telltale signs as to which other rooms they connect with, most rooms have no distinguishing features which assist in any way (shrub connecting to shrub, etc.). There's only one solution, though, because it's the only solution which will provide a way out of the maze. Completely frustrating but fun at the same time. Part II should be more of the same. The other puzzle I ordered is a spherical antique globe puzzle that is actually constructed so that you can put it together as a globe. I have no clue how it works, but it looks cool. Should be interesting. Anyone else into puzzles? I've read about some of the 3-D kind that are even more intricate than the spherical ones, has anyone done such a puzzle?
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08-25-2003, 05:28 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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Can you recommend a good set/brand of 3-D puzzles? Most that I put together end up looking, well, kindof crappy. They don't fit together too well and, thus, look pretty bad. Also, do you know of a good company who makes puzzles with "standard" pieces? I'm starting to get frustrated with non-standard pieces and having something that seemingly fits together only to find out 200 placed pieces later that it doesn't, even though it looks like it should.
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08-26-2003, 03:44 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Georgia via Alaska via Washington
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KSyrup, got a link for that first 'maze' puzzle online, so I can take a look, sounds interesting.
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08-26-2003, 06:59 AM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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Buffalo Games - Lost In A Jigsaw
This is the company that makes the Lost In A Jigsaw puzzles, and is the one from whom I bought the globe puzzle. Not sure how they work, though, as this will be my first one. I've read mixed reviews - some say they are crap and don't stay together, others report no problems. It'll be new to me.
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08-26-2003, 07:01 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fairfax, VA
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2/3rds?
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