Jigsaws - what sort of psychopath does a jigsaw

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And doesn't start with the edges?

DH has started our new one and is randomly putting middle pieces together.

AIBU to LTB immediately and fill in the sectioning paperwork.

Removing the poll as there is obviously no-one sane who would vote against me.

Lightheated btw.

I have a child that does this - it's insane, except that it works for her brain. There's no fighting it just treat it like some people are visual learners and others are kinesthetic for your own sanity - or ltb and suggest therapy for him😂

I won't be ordering a jigsaw puzzle right away. Or going to my local Waterstones which is mad for them! But. When we get further into January and I know that I won't be leaving myself short I am going to jigsaw like the most pyschopathic bastard who ever lived!

@Topofthemountain thanks for that link. I'm saving it. Might not be my first but definitely on the list!

we’ve been trying to finish a jigsaw for days - finally done 5 minutes again. Me and dh, both exhausted and with headaches, desperate to finish it so we could put it away. He’s an edge person, I’m definitely not. I go for the colourful bits , then flit them together then finish with the edges.

My dh started watching videos of the jigsaw World Cup, so we’ve also been having timed jigsaw competitions over Christmas - we’re very competitive but this seemed extreme.

Wait! What? There’s a jigsaw World Cup?

Starting in the middle indicates some kind of personality disorder. I would have to cut my losses and LTB. You can't live like this.

A jigsaw world cup?! Wow!

I'd probably watch some of it.

I thought this was going to be about the film SAW. Probs time to go to bed. 😂

Charity shops have tons of jigsaws. My DS bought everyone jigsaws from the charity shop for Xmas.

I do this, and I started a thread on it a while back and was told its basically cheating

I still do it.

I have the Jane Austen (and others) ones from Waterstones and they handily come with a printed poster of the jigsaw which means both lid and top of the box can be used for sorting.

Jigsaws are not a solo activity. My dm leaves one out every Christmas and we all put pieces in randomly...in fact there wasn't one this Christmas. Need to have serious words with dm... We edges here too although my fil does random bits in the middle and my dm on dh side does jigsaw puzzles without seeing the picture as in you put the back together....that's strange. He is 12.

I thought that I was confirmed as really old when I was given a jigsaw for Christmas this year. Even more so, when I enjoyed doing it.
But mine eyes are opened!
Jigsaw tables! Jigsaw World Cup!
(And I started off with both a central bit and the edges)

How do these jigsaw world Cup champions start their puzzles?

Word of warning - I bought a couple of jigsaws from The Works. They have a good selection and are cheap but both boxes came with multiples of the same pieces. The photo image is also a little fuzzy. I never ended up completing either of them.

You would all hate me.....

Step 1, identify corners

Step 2, do some of the edges where there obvious matches

Step 3, but remaining edge pieces to one side

Step 4, start putting middle bits/obvious "scenes" together

Step 5, somehow figure out a way to put steps 1-4 together

🤣

@FrangipaniBlue I think this might be Chaotic Neutral.

I’m not an edge starter, but joint jigsaw building is always going to be drama, it’s basically the monopoly of the puzzle world!

Is this the jigsaw table with drawers?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bits-Pieces-Plateau-Smooth-Fiberboard-Complete/dp/B00NCJ5CB8/ref=asc_df_B00NCJ5CB8/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310732991262&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11659646780853168102&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046205&hvtargid=pla-380337815885&psc=1&mcid=13a81be5390e3886bc7fb52cf5b230b8#immersive-view_1704551010291

I quite fancy one of these!

Doesn't everyone: start with edges, then group pieces according to colour/ tone before completing the puzzle?

How is that even possible? It has to end somewhere 😂

Presumably it's just kind of knobbly round the edges. A cold, naked, vulnerable jigsaw, with its skin cruelly flayed away.

@MouseMinge I don't know about the roll up mats but my way of avoiding having one taking up too much space when I occasionally want to do one is to use a PC game or a mobile app.

It's been years since I did, so I can't recommend a current one.

But some even (I may hear gasps from traditionalists here lol) automatically separate the edge pieces out for you so you can get straight to the interesting matching part 😁

Oh no!! Now you got me worried about the poor skinless jigsaws 😞

Sometimes my anthropomorphising and empathy circuits are not my friends 😣