Jigsaw puzzle crimes

[Rinceyourrice]

I am a member of a jigsaw puzzle library. I borrow 2 or 3 puzzles every month and always have one on the go.

I don't mind the odd missing piece. I don't condone separating the edge pieces and putting them in a little ziplock bag, but I can live with it.

But the following are CRIMES and should result in arrest and jail:

1. Separating the puzzle in half!! Left half (edge pieces and all) in one bag and right half in another. What?? Stop that.

1. Not properly breaking up your puzzle and putting massive complete chunks back in the box. Jail. Immediately jail.

Id be more angry at the missing pieces!

There are jigsaw puzzle libraries? I love jigsaws and I didn’t know these existed!

How did you find it?

3 in 1 puzzles not put in individual bags, just all mixed up together

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I'm a keen jigsaw doer OP. I buy most of mine from charity shops . And our local library always has a jigsaw on the go, usually a 1000 piece one, and I go in and do that a few times a week

I can't stand missing pieces. I've been really lucky with the jigsaws I've bought from the charity shops. But the jigsaws in the library - generally donated- regularly have missing pieces and it really annoys me.

I've come across the edge pieces separated in a bag before. And the jigsaw not broken up properly. But never a puzzle seperated in half! How weird.

Jigsaws are brilliant aren't they?

Crappy quality jigsaws, they dont deserve the time.

I found it on Facebook. It's run by volunteers. It's fab!

I get lots from charity shops too and I'm usually very lucky - no missing pieces.

My rule is that if I do a crappy quality one, I have to do a nice one next. I can't cope with two crappy ones in row.

Love a satisfying thick puzzle that clicks together properly.

I get mine from charity shops and vinted, a library would be great as I go through so many of them.

I don't like it when all the pieces are left loose in the box, such a high chance of the pieces being missing.

I do loads of jigsaws from charity shops. If I get one with a missing piece I will put one of those arrow post its on the lid indicating where it is

My friend and I buy them from The Works as they aren’t much more than a magazine these days, and then we swap them, and then they go to a charity shop. BUT, it’s her birthday in a fortnight and I’ve had one made to make her laugh - it’s a picture of me that someone took after I’d just got up, so I’m all wrinkled and have bomb-gone-off hair and I’m in a dressing gown. Wanted the dullest, oddest, funniest picture I had of me, and I know it’ll make her laugh.

Agreed.

New crime: leaving the pieces loose in the box and not even sellotaping the lid 😱.

Correct procedure is to put them in a bag.

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I quite like a jigsaw puzzle but my cats jump around when I am making them. I especially like doing one at Xmas as others help me a bit as they go by me.

Cats love helping with jigsaw puzzles. My cat earnestly believes that this is a hobby we share. She helps by sitting in the box, sitting on the puzzle, biffing me with her head, knocking pieces onto the floor, and occasionally wandering off with a bit tangled in her fur.

Oh sellotaping the lid is horrendous! Why give the person the task of attempting peeling tape off and risk damaging the box, or having horrid bits of tape staying on the box forever looking awful.

Jigsaw Puzzle Crimes
1 - putting the edge pieces in a separate little bag. Stop it! If I ever need your help doing a jigsaw Ill let you know. I always mix them in before starting.
2 - Stop writing COMPLETE on the box lid. On the inside, with the date is kinda helpful but zero need to spoil the exterior of the box. And it wont be complete if someone else has lost a piece and then redonated it. Pointless use of a pen!
3 - Nasty thin cardboard. Eg Otter house puzzles - their boxes are super sturdy. The jigsaw inside is packaged in a paper bag. Lovely. The jigsaw itself is NASTY thin cheap cardboard. Waste of time/money.

4 - Any image that has loads of indistinguishable sludgy green/brown. Or acres of sky. Big nope. Happily most modern styles have lovely designs now and far fewer of the old photographic type.

5 - AI images. Of any sort. Nope!

The Best Brands are - Ravensburger, Falcon, Gibson, Clementoni
Eeboo are fun (but the two Ive done so far were 1cm too wide for my jigsaw board so thats a minus point)
Cobble Hill - I LOVE their designs but havent done any of them yet.
Current favourites - the Gibsons Art File ones.

Arghhhh! Someone local to me does that. Draws a cross where the missing bit should go. Then invariably they find the piece......... so they continue trashing the lid by trying to somehow uncross the cross!

I actually quite like being told there is a piece missing (eg 1 piece missing - written inside the lid) but figuring out for myself where that spot is. I like the challenge of it!

Okay, so the rules are:

1. Only write on the inside of the box.
2. No taping the box.
3. Bag up your puzzle all together. No separating the sections.
4. Absolutely no AI pictures.

Am I alone in really enjoying a massive patch of sky?

We have recently got into jigsaw puzzles in a big way.

I bought a load of puzzles at a charity sale and found edges bagged separately and thought it was brilliant, esp if you don't want young children to lose all hope too early on, particularly if it is a wasgij. I feel if you don't like that you always have the option to mix them back in.

My kids once bought me a puzzle from a boutique brand. It didn't appear to match the picture exactly. It was mostly green vining plant on a white background and was impossible to do. First puzzle I have never finished. I gave it to a charity sale with a post-it note on top stating didn't match picture and good luck, but I think perhaps I should have binned it to save frustration, as later considered it may have been misprinted.

Surely this has to be one of the biggest crimes of all?!

I disagree, on the missing pieces. Charity shops here are pricing then really high so if there's a piece missing I want it clearly noted on the outside of the box so I can decide wether to keep looking elsewhere.

I've had them cheaper off vinted with postage than the charity shop prices.

My local library does jigsaw swaps. If you donate one, you can take one if you want.