hollow Rank: Senior Member
Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 321
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:47 pm Post subject: Bah! |
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And yet they still take me less than an hour to do.
I'm sure it's just me. I've always loved big puzzles. As a ten-year-old, I started doing 1000-piece jigsaws. Not enough challenge. I had to get bigger. I found a 1200 and a 1500, both enjoyable. But now done. I think maybe even a 2000 or two.
In college, I spent about 80$ on a 6000. Now that was cool. I had to buy a couple of pieces of foam at some art store, and place them side by side to have enough room to hold the finished picture, let alone the pieces. The downside was that after two months, I found a 6-piece hole, and 6 pieces that didn't fit in it. They looked like duplicates of other pieces. I was pretty miffed; huge picture, incomplete.
That's what I like about online jigsaws; no missing pieces, no chance of losing them to the vacuum cleaner, easier to move around completed sections, etc. The pretty woman is just icing. The downside is that the biggest puzzles I've seen piece-wise have only about 280, and they're not very good.
I notice Ravensburger - one of the best jigsaw makers out there - has a 9000 and a 12000. I may have to get those. I'll need a bigger surface, though...
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