@yakkoTDI I’m particularly puzzled by how these keep showing up, repeatedly, repetitiously, over and over, …
Maybe they should just be given away in IRKs to further the regret there.
These are not good puzzles. The pieces are all interchangeable. Besides edge pieces, they only have one shape, so if there is any pieces that are simple color gradients or something, it is super painful trying to figure out the right way. Every PAGE puzzle we’ve done has left us wondering if a couple of pieces were in the right location.
These would, however, make a great gift for the frenemy that loves a good puzzle. The pictures look great but they’ll have hours of agonized annoyance trying to put it together. And when they finally finish, they’ll be sure in their heart, that some pieces are wrong so they never did actually complete it.
@SnakeJG I absolutely agree!
My husband was so freaking frustrated with the pieces fitting in multiple places that he gave up…on two different ones, lol! (And of course I bought like 6 of the 1000 pc ones) He’s a great puzzler, but he said it just wasn’t worth his frustration. However, we gave them to our neighbors who also puzzle frequently, and they persevered and finished them.
They are pretty with nice bright colors…and the quality of the cardboard pieces isn’t horrible, but they are definitely a bitch to put together!
@k4evryng@SnakeJG
You say the cardboard isn’t terrible. Is it good quality though, thick and without the top layer half peeling off? It looks like a few have extremely colorful pics. Being super hard, possibly annoying isn’t a deal breaker. Not when it comes to gift giving anyways!
Tee hee hee…
@k4evryng@Lynnerizer@SnakeJG So glad I wasn’t the only one who hated these. I built the frame and about a third of the puzzle and gave up! I’m not even going to open the other one.
I bought some of this brand when they were first sold on Meh. Never again. The pieces are all almost exactly the same shape giving nothing to go on in any stretches of flat color.
I regularly do 1,000 piece jigsaws, taking an hour out of the daily routine now and then to relax, typically finishing a puzzle over a week or two. With these, I just gave up: they were not at all relaxing, just annoying.
Take a look at the top Amazon reviews - mostly 1 and 2 stars. That’s accurate.
Jigsaw puzzles for me were none of these pieces fit, so I’ll make them fit. My mother( God love her) was a master who would calmly complete a Flat Banana( with Chiquita being the only guide) or her finest was just Jelly Beans.We shellac that one to hang on my wall.
The Magic Puzzle Company has a Series Two Bundle on their website for pre-order. For anybody looking for high quality puzzles these are really good! For those who didn’t get in on the Kickstarter, they also have their Series One puzzles for sale again on Amazon.
@steeltoesenator Oh, I LOVE that idea - those are brilliant! Now I almost want to buy some of these - but I have very few clear flat spaces in my house to do puzzles.
@blaineg
Ya think? I know that I had no trouble rehoming all of my old ones last year, after having to sit on them for a decade or more because nobody wanted them.
Just to be a contrarian and “well actually” the write up, early on in 2020 puzzles WERE a hot quarantine hobby. I remember them being difficult to come by
Very disappointing puzzles since all the parts are interchangable. Some of the designs (from the past) are really tacky clip art. Cardboard is crap, and some puzzle pieces weren’t actually cut apart and trying to pull them apart resulted in tearing the pieces. Sorry Meh.
My favorite puzzles are ones my dad made while we were growing up. He cut the front of boxes off of laundry detergent, frozen pizzas, cereal boxes, etc., then glued them to plywood and used a bandsaw to cut out puzzles.
I was just doing some of them with my youngest daughter and niece yesterday.
Here’s a picture of one of them (most are products from the late 70s and early 80s).
@Kyeh@yakkoTDI@zachdecker That is a super-cool family heirloom. A lot of time and skill went into that (plus the great ad art)
Must have been a super-thin bandsaw blade. Sadly, I think most of the new ones like on offer here are just cut with big die presses. Though the name “jigsaw” comes from the traditional technique which is rarely done any more in commercial puzzles.
@zachdecker Yeah on that cool mister salty picture, I was going to guess older at first (50s or 60s) but then I saw that it said 10 oz 283 grams so that brought me back to when I was in grade school in the 1970s and things started having metric units on them. The plan was that we were supposed to completely switch over to metric in 10 years. Well, 50 years later, that didn’t happen, except they made liquor bottles smaller (for the same price), and got weird packaging sizes for others (soda cans are 12oz, but large bottles are 1.5 l). Even worse is what happened to tools for car service. It used to be “American” car = “English”/“SAE”, “foreign” car = Metric. But American cars have been mixed for a long time since so many parts are from other countries. Just this week I worked on my Dodge truck and the battery hold-down was metric, but the battery clamp nut was “SAE.” Often they are close enough you can use the “wrong” tool but it really makes it hard to have the exactly right tool handy for everything you need.
@pmarin I’m not sure, but a 1/8" blade may have been used on some of them.
The “art work” on all of them are from things around the house, and knowing my dad I am certain the wood was from somebody’s trash.
Not only are they the same cut, please understand that every piece (other than edges) is the exact same shape. And the edges have only two shapes. This is as boring as it gets.
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I am puzzled by this offer.
@yakkoTDI yeah doesn’t seem to be a good fit for Meh.
@omni72 @yakkoTDI I’m at piece with my decision to buy.
@yakkoTDI I’m particularly puzzled by how these keep showing up, repeatedly, repetitiously, over and over, …
Maybe they should just be given away in IRKs to further the regret there.
Oh No! Glenn ate the puzzler!
@hchavers That’s the one I wanted, too!
These are not good puzzles. The pieces are all interchangeable. Besides edge pieces, they only have one shape, so if there is any pieces that are simple color gradients or something, it is super painful trying to figure out the right way. Every PAGE puzzle we’ve done has left us wondering if a couple of pieces were in the right location.
These would, however, make a great gift for the frenemy that loves a good puzzle. The pictures look great but they’ll have hours of agonized annoyance trying to put it together. And when they finally finish, they’ll be sure in their heart, that some pieces are wrong so they never did actually complete it.
@SnakeJG I absolutely agree!
) He’s a great puzzler, but he said it just wasn’t worth his frustration. 
However, we gave them to our neighbors who also puzzle frequently, and they persevered and finished them.
My husband was so freaking frustrated with the pieces fitting in multiple places that he gave up…on two different ones, lol! (And of course I bought like 6 of the 1000 pc ones
They are pretty with nice bright colors…and the quality of the cardboard pieces isn’t horrible, but they are definitely a bitch to put together!
@k4evryng @SnakeJG
You say the cardboard isn’t terrible. Is it good quality though, thick and without the top layer half peeling off? It looks like a few have extremely colorful pics. Being super hard, possibly annoying isn’t a deal breaker. Not when it comes to gift giving anyways!
Tee hee hee…
@SnakeJG Wow. It sounds like whoever designed these completely missed the point of jigsaw puzzles.
@k4evryng @Lynnerizer @SnakeJG So glad I wasn’t the only one who hated these. I built the frame and about a third of the puzzle and gave up! I’m not even going to open the other one.
@k4evryng @Lynnerizer the cardboard is better than what you’ll find in really cheap puzzles and is acceptable, but I wouldn’t go as far as to say good.
@k4evryng @Lynnerizer @SnakeJG
Seems like the definition of Meh!
I wonder what they did with all the extra time saved by not typing out “quantity”.
@awk they couldn’t figure out the spellin.Uanti needs to be it’s own word.
I bought some of this brand when they were first sold on Meh. Never again. The pieces are all almost exactly the same shape giving nothing to go on in any stretches of flat color.
I regularly do 1,000 piece jigsaws, taking an hour out of the daily routine now and then to relax, typically finishing a puzzle over a week or two. With these, I just gave up: they were not at all relaxing, just annoying.
Take a look at the top Amazon reviews - mostly 1 and 2 stars. That’s accurate.
OH MY GOD THEY PUZZLED GLEN!!!
Could we get some brighter colors in these boring-ass muted tone puzzles please.
@michaelant The brighter colours sold out and this is the trash…I mean surplus that Meh bought for us.
Previous reviews were REALLY Bad, as mentioned above.
If you got these at a good enough price, maybe consider selling them as fire starter?
@ypwulby I came to say the same thing. Perfect for kindling…not much else.
Jigsaw puzzles for me were none of these pieces fit, so I’ll make them fit. My mother( God love her) was a master who would calmly complete a Flat Banana( with Chiquita being the only guide) or her finest was just Jelly Beans.We shellac that one to hang on my wall.
The Magic Puzzle Company has a Series Two Bundle on their website for pre-order. For anybody looking for high quality puzzles these are really good! For those who didn’t get in on the Kickstarter, they also have their Series One puzzles for sale again on Amazon.
@sassymango Thanks! I didn’t know the second set was available yet. Their puzzles are amazing, the most fun I’ve had with puzzles.
@sassymango Order’s in!
Linky: https://www.magicpuzzlecompany.com/
@blaineg thanks for posting the link. They are great puzzles!
@sassymango Yes!!!
@blaineg thank you for the link!
I’m definitely getting the set of 3 on Amazon…they look fun and have a little twist with the Easter eggs!
Since every one of these puzzles has the same cut to the pieces perhaps they could be used to create art. https://mymodernmet.com/montage-puzzle-art-tim-klein/
This link has better pictures of his work. https://twistedsifter.com/2018/11/jigsaw-puzzle-mashups-by-tim-klein/
@steeltoesenator Oh, I LOVE that idea - those are brilliant! Now I almost want to buy some of these - but I have very few clear flat spaces in my house to do puzzles.
It’s almost like someone overproduced for the Great Puzzle Crisis early in the pandemic, and can’t get rid of them now.
@blaineg
Ya think? I know that I had no trouble rehoming all of my old ones last year, after having to sit on them for a decade or more because nobody wanted them.
@blaineg @werehatrack I like the word “rehoming” it sounds much fancier than “giving away my crap.”
Just to be a contrarian and “well actually” the write up, early on in 2020 puzzles WERE a hot quarantine hobby. I remember them being difficult to come by
@sagergen somehow that, and toilet paper. So pretty much puzzling and pooping were the stay-at-home activities. For some of us, still true.
It occurs to me that buying several of these and dumping them all into one box would provide the opportunity for some very peculiar results…
@werehatrack see my post above about artist Tim Klein and the spectacular results he has doing this exact (sort of) same thing.
Very disappointing puzzles since all the parts are interchangable. Some of the designs (from the past) are really tacky clip art. Cardboard is crap, and some puzzle pieces weren’t actually cut apart and trying to pull them apart resulted in tearing the pieces. Sorry Meh.
My favorite puzzles are ones my dad made while we were growing up. He cut the front of boxes off of laundry detergent, frozen pizzas, cereal boxes, etc., then glued them to plywood and used a bandsaw to cut out puzzles.
I was just doing some of them with my youngest daughter and niece yesterday.
Here’s a picture of one of them (most are products from the late 70s and early 80s).
@zachdecker That’s pretty cool. I love some of the old packaging which is why I have a couple puzzles that have pictures of it.
@yakkoTDI @zachdecker
That is really neat!
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI @zachdecker That is a super-cool family heirloom. A lot of time and skill went into that (plus the great ad art)
Must have been a super-thin bandsaw blade. Sadly, I think most of the new ones like on offer here are just cut with big die presses. Though the name “jigsaw” comes from the traditional technique which is rarely done any more in commercial puzzles.
@zachdecker Yeah on that cool mister salty picture, I was going to guess older at first (50s or 60s) but then I saw that it said 10 oz 283 grams so that brought me back to when I was in grade school in the 1970s and things started having metric units on them. The plan was that we were supposed to completely switch over to metric in 10 years. Well, 50 years later, that didn’t happen, except they made liquor bottles smaller (for the same price), and got weird packaging sizes for others (soda cans are 12oz, but large bottles are 1.5 l). Even worse is what happened to tools for car service. It used to be “American” car = “English”/“SAE”, “foreign” car = Metric. But American cars have been mixed for a long time since so many parts are from other countries. Just this week I worked on my Dodge truck and the battery hold-down was metric, but the battery clamp nut was “SAE.” Often they are close enough you can use the “wrong” tool but it really makes it hard to have the exactly right tool handy for everything you need.
@pmarin I’m not sure, but a 1/8" blade may have been used on some of them.
The “art work” on all of them are from things around the house, and knowing my dad I am certain the wood was from somebody’s trash.
@zachdecker That is very “Meta” that the blade package itself might have made it into the “art”
@pmarin @zachdecker My 2012 Camaro is purely metric. At least so far.
But yea, the mixed Imperial/metric American cars were annoying to work on.
Wow, I should’ve looked at the forum first. Cancelled- which is fine since the ones I REALLY wanted were sold out anyway.
Not only are they the same cut, please understand that every piece (other than edges) is the exact same shape. And the edges have only two shapes. This is as boring as it gets.
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