How long does it take to do a jigsaw??

[Canyoujustgotobedplease]

Started a 1000 piece puzzle today with every intention of finishing it in an hour
Obviously my estimated time was WAY off, I did the maths based on my usual time to complete a 24 piece kids puzzle I think😂

I sat there for hours and don't seem to have got anywhere, I've got the edges done and am now working on the middle bit, had a good mind to just bin it but am determined to do it.
My son said at this rate it might be done by Xmas.
I'm actually looking forward to completing it, even if just to get the dining table back.

Just wondering how long you all take to do one of these, out of curiosity.

Obviously my estimated time was WAY off, I did the maths based on my usual time to complete a 24 piece kids puzzle I think

Love this. 🤣🤣🤣

The kids hate when I decide to do one as I do it in the kitchen and the rule is ‘if you come in the kitchen for food/a snack, then you have to do two pieces of the jigsaw before you leave.’ 🤣

I think they take me a month or two usually but the last one I started months ago and it’s still not complete.

Depends how much sky there is in the picture.

That's what DM tells me.
The more pieces with a similar design, e.g. variations on patches of blue and white to create sky and clouds, the harder it is - each piece will then have several options of which pieces fit next to it that will need checking. The puzzles marketed as the “hardest jigsaw in the world” have designs like baked beans or jelly beans that are basically the same all over.

I do a 1000 piece in about 5-7 days depending on work/kids/daily life shite

Love a jigsaw!

I'm going to chip away at it each evening and hopefully get it done.
Loving the varied replies, I think I'll take a bit longer as the background is similar colour and it's proving tricky.
My next one will be a simpler picture.

Well DH and I are doing the Mauraders Map from Harry Potter (for the 3rd time, never completed it) we started it new years eve, and are still nowhere near finished. Its got so many pieces that are the same colour, so it's a difficult one.
However did a 1000 piece New York one on boxing day with my parents and DB and between the 5 of us we did it in 3 hours.

So I say man power is the way forward!

Me, 1000 piece not devilish styles: 3-6 hours, median probably about 4.5. I think I'm quite fast, though.

This is one I did in ~4-4.5 hours.

Blimey, £7.50 to buy that at WHSmith, half of what I paid!

Ha you should watch the film Puzzle!
m.imdb.com/title/tt6933454/

Ages! I’m going to get one of those porta puzzle cases for the next one we do I think. Currently doing a Tetris one my god it’s so difficult.

@Mol1628

Ages! I’m going to get one of those porta puzzle cases for the next one we do I think. Currently doing a Tetris one my god it’s so difficult.

I have a porta puzzle deluxe case and wouldn’t be without it for my jigsaws as I dip in and out for short bursts and 1000 piece jigsaws can take a couple of months. It slides under the sofa to keep it out of the way and the internal mats that go on top of the puzzle are useful for sorting pieces out and moving them around you. I do the puzzles with my 8yo, thus the short bursts.

I think about it as 1 hour for 100 pieces. It's probably quite a bit quicker than this in reality, it it helps me to be realistic about the time that it might take 😄.

^but

[quote Cocorico22]Ha you should watch the film Puzzle!
m.imdb.com/title/tt6933454/[/quote]
Brilliant 😂 I definitely need to watch this.

Wish I had thought of a porta puzzle as our dining table is now out of bounds until I complete this.

The two toughest jigsaws I have finished to date - one was 3,000 pieces, a picture of a Swiss mountain, with 200 identical pieces of plain blue sky and a couple of thousand v similar pieces of rock and fir trees.
It took me a year (but in my defence, I was at university, in the second year of a medical degree, so had little spare time!)
The other was called “hay in a needle stack” - and the entire jigsaw was literally a mass of sewing needles with a wisp of hay in the middle! That took six weeks.
Some large jigsaws are easier than small ones - I have a 4,000 piece one of a Dutch street scene, where it’s obvious which pieces go where.
The damn things are v compulsive (especially to me as I’m autistic) - I used to sit up til 2am when close to finishing one, determined to reach the final piece.

I once did a 6000 piece and that took me 3-4 months

I just completed my Christmas jigsaw and it took about 2 weeks of about 1-2 hours an evening. It was one of those where you don't get a picture to work from, you have to guess what the people on the box are looking at. And there was LOADS of same-looking brick 😅 For ones where I have a picture to work from
I reckon I'm in the 7-8 hours camp, I can usually do one across a weekend in a few sessions.

DD excitedly started a 500 piece one a few weeks ago.

Its completely black and white. It will not defeat me.

We have just finished our third Aimee Stewart 1000 piece jigsaw in a day. They are such lovely puzzles and very satisfying.

We get the new WHSmith panoramic jigsaw every Xmas, and do all the previous years ines pre and post Xmas. Our little tradition.

Depends on the puzzle.. one on Saturday took about 4hours (1000 piece) one on Sunday took about 8hours (dipped in and out).

The one I've just started today will take all week as I only have an hour or so per evening to complete.

I am quite fast at puzzles I have many systems 🤣.

8 hrs is a good starting point, sometimes 10. I started doing them in lockdown and now do one a week with a couple of days off before I start a new one. I refuse to pay £15 for them though so get them from charity shops or ebay and I've joined a local fb swap group. I like clear colours (nothing out of focus) and lean towards the sea/boats/harbours by choice. Hope you get it done, OP!

World record is just over 2 hous 26 mins and 45 seconds, so yes slightly off thinking it would take an hour

I've been doing the same one since November! Though we don't have anywhere we can leave a jigsaw up (both lack of space and also idiot cats who will claw at a half-done jigsaw left unattended) so I have to get the puzzle roll out each time which I think slows down progress. My parents have a jigsaw constantly out and on the go and you get it done a lot quicker if you can do bits as and when rather than needing to settle down with the jigsaw for a session!

There is a giant one in the haematology department I go to, I've missed doing that with the phone appointments!

I'm shocked a hospital has something out that patients can touch -- clinical places took away all the soft toys for visiting kids many years before covid.

It takes me about a week of dipping in and out.

I have one of those zip up cases so we can remove it if the table is needed - would definitely recommend getting one if you’re going to do them regularly.

We’ve got one - 1500 pieces - we’ve been working on since Jan 21.

It’s fiendishly difficult.