Jigsaw Puzzles
Friendly place to discuss puzzles and share pictures of jigsaw puzzles you have completed. Please do not keep posting the same puzzle over and over again or puzzles other people completed. If you do a puzzle a second time, you can post it again but wait about 30 days between posts and let everyone know you did it again.
Be sure to list the name (if known) puzzle brand, piece count. If you want to remark on quality, artist or degree of difficulty it is ok too.
The only time I might downvote or remove a post or comment is if it is inappropriate. I fully understand and appreciate that not all of us have the same skill levels, financial or physical ability or the same amount of time to devote to doing jigsaw puzzles. Therefore I always upvote every puzzle posted, even if may not be one I truly like.
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Box art is allowed to be used as much as you want. Encouraged even. If you can use some tiny detail in the piece to figure out where it goes overall, I think that's awesome. For me, you're building the picture moreso than connecting weird shaped edges to each other. The weird edges are just confirmation that your piece belongs there, not the puzzle itself. Other puzzles that focus on the same shaped or specially shaped pieces are a different kind of puzzle(like those triangle puzzles), but not jigsaw.
No timers, just a general "it took me x days/hours". Not looking to break any records, just relaxing.
Stuck together pieces varies. If it's a huge clump, I'll break it up. Little 2-3 bits I'll keep as bonus starters. Most I'd probably allow is a blob of 8 pieces. Anything bigger feels like I'm missing out on the puzzle. Unless it's some 5000 piece monstrosity... So small amounts in context, yes.
Good answers.
On edit: I think we do it similarly. Some times new puzzles have pieces stuck together and tear if you try to separate them.
That's a really valid point. If they're stuck not because they happen to be together, but are actually stuck from not being cleanly cut, they get to stay. Don't want to ruin the puzzle over it 👍