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15
Sep
Hello everyone! I hope you have been enjoying my posts on Instagram and Facebook! I am having lots of fun sharing my puzzle photos and little games with everyone. đ Please follow and share.
I also have a few very cool blogs lined up this month so please keep reading!
A few months ago, I posted about puzzle pet peeves. This piece by Mandy is about my biggest annoyance â missing pieces! I just received a brand new, plastic wrapped Ravensburger. I realized early on that it was missing two edge pieces. Disappointing! I didnât even want to continue. But again, I was curious. Do people do puzzles if they are incomplete? Do they mind? Will they buy it if they know in advance that it is missing pieces?
I asked the question, and the answers were mixed. It comes down to whether you do a puzzle for the journey, or the result. Is it the picture, or the challenge?
Some of you might disagree with me, but I am very picky about the puzzles I choose. I donât need the practice and I have so many that I really donât like to do them if I know there are pieces missing. I am all about the result and the image that I create.
When I asked online and read the comments, 25 people said they would do it anyway. 25 people said they wouldnât.
How is that for an even split?
A lot of people will continue just in case it turns up. They assume anything could be missing until the end. But my question was specifically â if you know in advance that it is missing pieces, would you do them? Some people have a magic number. If itâs more than 3 pieces, or 9 pieces, they wonât do it. Some people donât mind if itâs an edge piece. Some create pieces to fill the gaps.
On the other hand, there are puzzlers like me who donât feel they completed it if there are pieces missing. Some of these people frame them and need them to have all the pieces.
On both sides, the image is still key. If it is an image that someone really loves, they donât necessarily mind, but if they are just so-so, they will pass.
The one thing that was consistent was the request for people to let others know if there are missing pieces on used puzzles. Honesty is best so you know what you are working on.
As I said at the start of my blog experience, there are no wrong answers. We all do our puzzles differently and all enjoy different parts of the process. What do you think? Are you okay with missing pieces? Is it about the end or the journey to get there?
Let me know and stay tuned next week for my Trefl puzzle review. đ
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Robert Gibbons
I prefer to do puzzles to finish the whole image, edge pieces and all. I have tried to do different puzzles over the years and each puzzle had pieces missing. Do any puzzle companies even watch to make sure all of the pieces are there any longer? Are there any that care enough to make sure, at the very least, that they have the number of pieces in the puzzle that they say that theyâll have? The last puzzle I tried to do was by Cobble Hill of an iconic Santa Claus, in the night sky, with the reindeer over a town. This one was a random cut, so I wonât be able to get replacement pieces from anywhere for it. Yes, it is at least party my fault for just trusting that Cobble Hill might be different, but it is also partly theirs, on their end, for trying to pass off that they do all quality products as well. It makes me furious when puzzles are missing pieces. Theyâre supposed to help people relax and bring joy to people. How does making each and every puzzle, that I have gotten so far, relax me or bring me joy? These kinds of things are really making me rethink the joy of puzzling.
I have been given Falcon 1000piece jigsaw.
garden Center Visit. However it dose not have a picture guid with it.
Please would you send me one.
If you reply I will send my address