Puzzles, as in the jigsaw variety.
A friend of mine told me recently she got out a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle that she had bought a few years ago and over New Year's she and her husband decided to give it a whirl. They left it out on a desk in her sun room and every so often they would separately take a stab at working on the pieces.
It was a puzzle of New York City, Times square and the theater district and she said it was not at all easy. They had it all put together and finished in about 10 days of off and on solving. Then a neighbor of hers dropped by and saw the puzzle and told her that she and a group of her friends swap puzzles as they tire of doing the same ones over and over. This group is into 1000+ pieces puzzles.
I am intrigued by the idea of leaving a puzzle out on a table and slowly giving it a try even though I have never been a puzzle enthusiast.
I guess it is the idea that any puzzle solving is good for the ole noggin that has me thinking of buying one.
Do any of you out there in blogland enjoy complicated jigsaw puzzles?
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Yep...BIG TIME. I've loved jigsaw puzzles all my life...and still do them. I have shelves of them in my basement. I do them on my dining room table....and have left them for a day or two to finish at my leisure. When I was younger, I had to do them all in one day...often one sitting. I've got several 1,000 piece puzzles and many 500 or more. I've passed my puzzle obsession on to my oldest daughter. We both LOVE all kinds of puzzles. Try one Chancy...
Thanks Joy,
I think I will try one and perhaps the grand children might find it interesting to work on a harder one a bit at a time. I just checked Ebay and they have a good selection.
My daughter loves jigsaw puzzles, but I like Crosswords. I have tried to find various pieces on some of hers that she keeps spread out on a table, but I don't have much luck putting them together.
I love doing them, Chancy, but my cats have made that nearly impossible. The last time I tried (just before Christmas) they knocked almost all of it into the floor. I can attest that puzzles are good for the mind and the eyes. You'd get to enjoy it, I'll bet.
You know, with a 500 piece jigsw puzzle, if you don't leave it out on a table, it means either you never go to bed until it's finished, and that might take days, or else start all over again every evening!
So I guess you don't have much of a choice.
Like crossword puzzles, it used to be something I loved doing. I haven't done one in decades though.
My sister is very big into doing puzzles and almost always has one scattered about on a table.. there for anyone to try.
Kenju Your cats are trying to tell you something.
"Forget all those silly little pieces and pay ATTENTION to us CATS" :)
I have fond memories of visiting my Aunt for a short visit in the summers when I was a young child. She generally had a card table set up in her small living room with a jigsaw puzzle on it. I loved the idea this was something we could go to, work on as long as we wanted, or leave, just as the mood struck us to try and add a piece. We didn't have to "finish it up and put it away," only to have to get it out again at another time. I set one up a few years ago with mixed interest from others, since so many tech items in favor now.
You can purchase roll up jigsaw puzzle carriers that will allow putting them away unfinished which hold the pieces in place, to roll out for another day without having to start over. I bought one a couple years ago, but the time I might have devoted to such a puzzle now likely goes to my computer.
Before 9-11 I gave a 1000 piece NYC panoramic scene with the twin towers to a special jigsaw fan acquaintance who had just such a puzzle carrier due to having moved into limited space. Wish I had purchased one of those NYC puzzle's for myself as it's likely a collector's item now.
That puzzle's shape was quite long, would have been a bear to put together, which she later confirmed to me it was, but she did it.
You might want to start out with some smaller 200 to 300 pieces, or even smaller, but all depends on the age of your grandchildren.
Joared thanks for the info. I will look into it.
BTW I saw a puzzle on Ebay of a NYC skyline that had the Twin Towers in the picture.
Yes, indeed...I grew up with a jigsaw puzzle always on display and we, the 5 girls in the family, and my parents, would spend hours working on them.
In my computer file of aricles that I've written, but not put on my blog yet, I have a story about this very thing.
Now I don't do them as often and stick to the 500 piece ones. The others are too cumbersome for me.
I have never been able to leave a puzzle out on a table -- cats. I've never been able to do one without locking the current family feline out of the room. They love to chase the little pieces all around and you find them years later when you take the heating vents apart for some reason or replace the refrigerator.
I do jigsaw puzzles on the computer.
My mother and one of her great-grandsons do puzzles all the time. It is one of those things that generations can meet each other over.
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