My college kid who’s home for the summer, asked to borrow a puzzle. He’s doing it on the floor in his room (on my fabric cutting mat, ha) and wanted it to be a challenge, so is not looking at the picture guide at all. Working it entirely blind. I’m impressed! First time I caught a glimpse he’d already done the border and all the sunset sky part. Now it’s this far along. I might sneak in and get another progress pic or two within this coming week, and add them here, just for the heck of it. I like seeing how differently someone else approaches the same puzzle I’ve done.
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That’s impressive; I never even tried building a puzzle without looking at the cover art (and often found myself complaining when the box picture was a different color variation or didn’t include the whole puzzle face. And…I can vaguely remember when I could still get down on the floor to work on a puzzle for a couple of hours at a time. Those days are long, long gone. 🙂
I used to work puzzles on a sheet of cardboard or something on the floor of my room when I was a teen, too. Not anymore!
There’s a site online where you can do puzzles (anywhere from very simple to more complex ones), and I never look at the picture first. I think I just tackle puzzles the most inefficient way, haha. I put the outside edges all together, then from there just match colors or piece shapes to what I see on the edge. It’s kind of satisfying for me to go “left side out, bottom in, right side out” and then find where that shape matches.
Yeah, I’ve done online puzzles before too, and I often do those without looking at the picture much, even tho it’s usually a pretty high piece count. Not sure why it’s different when I’m doing them physically. My preference is good old cardstock puzzles, but I did like the satisfying little “click” sound some of those sites make, when the pieces get into the right place.