Ksyrup
08-25-2003, 04:08 PM
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?
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?