I am aware this is a gaming forum, thus may not have too many jigsaw puzzle fans, let alone enthusiasts -- but there are and have been several, official CDPR puzzles available in the company's Store.
I, personally, have been very much into jigsaw puzzles since I was a child, and puzzles have been something my family often do together over the winter holidays. We have a collection of well over a dozen puzzles, many of them with highly challenging pictures and high piece counts.
I have progressed from small, children's puzzles (a few dozen pieces or so) to large puzzles with up to 2000 pieces, and enjoy the challenge large piece counts bring.
I am very methodical when working on a puzzle: first is going through the pieces to find edge pieces, then building the edges (at which point I almost always find I missed at least one edge piece while searching). Next comes deciding in which order to work on the areas of the image. Unsurprisingly, large areas of a single or similar colours (e.g. water, sky, snow) tend to not get picked as the first projects. One of the photos below demonstrates this.
I prefer puzzles whose pieces are not all the same shape, as it is more fun to have oddly-shaped pieces. One of my favourites in terms of piece shape is a Christmas-themed puzzle. It has 800 pieces, all of which are curved.
I never, ever glue puzzles to hang them on a wall, as I fail to see the point in never being able to complete the puzzle again. Instead, I leave a complete puzzle on display for a few days or so, and then take it apart again to return it to its box.
When it comes to puzzle brands, my favourite is, by far, the German Ravensburger.
We have one puzzle of a different brand, purchased in Australia, with a particularly fascinating image: a mosaic of tiny photographs of all sorts of things, forming a map of the world. Unfortunately, that puzzle has multiple duplicate pieces (something I have never encountered in any other puzzle) and at least one missing piece -- even though we bought it brand new.
My personal collection currently consists of four 1000-piece puzzles, two of them CDPR ones. I do not have a picture of my zebra puzzle or my "Ciri and the Wolves" one, but do have pictures of the other two puzzles. One of them many of you may recognize as the same image as used to be the background on the Witcher series forum on this very same website. Images below (includes boxes of the two puzzles not pictured).
Feel free to share your thoughts on jigsaw puzzles! Photos of projects -- past, present, or future -- would also be welcome, if you have any you are willing to share.
I, personally, have been very much into jigsaw puzzles since I was a child, and puzzles have been something my family often do together over the winter holidays. We have a collection of well over a dozen puzzles, many of them with highly challenging pictures and high piece counts.
I have progressed from small, children's puzzles (a few dozen pieces or so) to large puzzles with up to 2000 pieces, and enjoy the challenge large piece counts bring.
I am very methodical when working on a puzzle: first is going through the pieces to find edge pieces, then building the edges (at which point I almost always find I missed at least one edge piece while searching). Next comes deciding in which order to work on the areas of the image. Unsurprisingly, large areas of a single or similar colours (e.g. water, sky, snow) tend to not get picked as the first projects. One of the photos below demonstrates this.
I prefer puzzles whose pieces are not all the same shape, as it is more fun to have oddly-shaped pieces. One of my favourites in terms of piece shape is a Christmas-themed puzzle. It has 800 pieces, all of which are curved.
I never, ever glue puzzles to hang them on a wall, as I fail to see the point in never being able to complete the puzzle again. Instead, I leave a complete puzzle on display for a few days or so, and then take it apart again to return it to its box.
When it comes to puzzle brands, my favourite is, by far, the German Ravensburger.
We have one puzzle of a different brand, purchased in Australia, with a particularly fascinating image: a mosaic of tiny photographs of all sorts of things, forming a map of the world. Unfortunately, that puzzle has multiple duplicate pieces (something I have never encountered in any other puzzle) and at least one missing piece -- even though we bought it brand new.
My personal collection currently consists of four 1000-piece puzzles, two of them CDPR ones. I do not have a picture of my zebra puzzle or my "Ciri and the Wolves" one, but do have pictures of the other two puzzles. One of them many of you may recognize as the same image as used to be the background on the Witcher series forum on this very same website. Images below (includes boxes of the two puzzles not pictured).
Feel free to share your thoughts on jigsaw puzzles! Photos of projects -- past, present, or future -- would also be welcome, if you have any you are willing to share.
