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33,600-piece Jigsaw Puzzle Completed
Neatorama ^ | January 11, 2015 | Miss Cellania

Posted on 11/18/2015 3:39:52 PM PST by Daffynition

It took 450 hours of work, but redditor manne0708 finished a jigsaw puzzle with 33,600 pieces. She says it was accomplished over two and a half months, despite the interference of two dogs and a cat. There were a few pieces retrieved from the vacuum cleaner bag. She is considering donating it to a children’s hospital after it is sealed.

The puzzle is called Wildlife, and it will cost you nearly $400. It*s not a world record puzzle, but it is the largest mass-produced puzzle on the market.


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To: r_barton

Goodness gracious! >8)


21 posted on 11/18/2015 4:19:23 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: Daffynition

ROFL! He sure does.


22 posted on 11/18/2015 4:22:36 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Daffynition

Enjoy.

BTW, I do like puzzles.

I downloaded a free puzzle app on my Kindle that is actually pretty good.

I think it is from Kristanix or something similar. Definitely Russian either way.


23 posted on 11/18/2015 4:23:01 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: r_barton

That would buy a few things on my wishlist.

Mine is mostly tools, jeep/blazer/motorcycle parts, old TV shows on DVD, a few books, technology items.


24 posted on 11/18/2015 4:39:13 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: dfwgator

RIMMER: So there we were at 2:30 in the morning; I was beginning to wish
I had never come to cadet training school. To the south lay water —
there was no way we could cross that. To the east and west two armies
squeezed us in a pincer. The only way was north; I had to go for it
and pray the Gods were smiling on me. I picked up the dice and threw
two sixes. Caldecott couldn’t believe it. My go again; another two
sixes!
LISTER: Rimmer, what’s wrong with you? Don’t you realize that no one is
even slightly interested in anything you’re saying? You’ve got this
major psychological defect which blinds you to the fact that you’re
boring people to death! How come you can’t sense that?
RIMMER: Anyway I picked up the dice again... Unbelievable! Another two
sixes!
LISTER: Rimmer!
RIMMER: What?
LISTER: No one wants to know some stupid story about how you beat your
Cadet School Training Officer at Risk.
RIMMER: Then — disaster! I threw a two and a three; Caldecott picked up
the dice and threw snake eyes — I was still in it.
LISTER: Cat, can you talk to him?.

CAT is sitting with big pieces of cotton wool plugged in to his ears. As
LISTER talks to him he takes one of the pieces.

CAT: What?
RIMMER: Anyway, to cut a long story short I threw a five and a four which
beat his three and a two, another double six followed by a double four
and a double five. After he’d thrown a three and a two I threw a six
and a three.
CAT: Man, this guy could bore for his country!
LISTER: What I want to know, is how the smeg can you remember what dice
you threw at a game you played when you were seventeen?
RIMMER: I jotted it down in my Risk campaign book. I always used to do
that so I could replay my moments of glory over a glass of brandy in
the sleeping quarters. I ask you, what better way is there to spend a
Saturday night?
CAT: Ya got me.
RIMMER: So a six and a three and he came back with a three and a two.
LISTER: Rimmer, can’t you tell the story is not gripping me? I’m in a
state of non-grippedness, I am completely smegging ungripped. Shut the
smeg up.
RIMMER: Don’t you want to hear the Risk story?
LISTER: That’s what I’ve been saying for the last fifteen minutes.
RIMMER: But I thought that was because I hadn’t got to the really
interesting bit...
LISTER: What really interesting bit?
RIMMER: Ah well, that was about two hours later, after he’d thrown a
three and a two and I’d thrown a four and a one. I picked up the
dice...
LISTER: Hang on Rimmer, hang on... the really interesting bit is exactly
the same as the dull bit.
RIMMER: You don’t know what I did with the dice though, do you? For all
you know, I could have jammed them up his nostrils, head butted him on
the nose and they could have blasted out of his ears. That would’ve
been quite interesting.
LISTER: OK, Rimmer. What did you do with the dice?.
RIMMER: I threw a five and a two.
LISTER: And that’s the really interesting bit?
RIMMER: Well it was interesting to me, it got me into Irkutsk.

There is a moral to this story....work it out for yourself.


25 posted on 11/18/2015 4:40:33 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Daffynition

Best...game...ever!!! The new one sucks!!! Have fun!!


26 posted on 11/18/2015 6:18:45 PM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Mathews

THX. We’ll try....some evening when we are snowed in would be ideal!


27 posted on 11/18/2015 6:34:58 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: r_barton

I have an older friend who loves to do puzzles. Last year I sent her two for Christmas. One was a round bowl of popcorn and the other had no picture but you had to read the mystery story that came with it and then put the puzzle together based on the story. She didn’t speak to me for at least six months.

Always buy my dil a couple of puzzles for Christmas and we take them with us on our trip and work on them in the evenings. Great family activity.


28 posted on 11/18/2015 6:43:55 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Daffynition

Neat!

Lacquer that thing and hang it in the hallway.


29 posted on 11/18/2015 7:45:52 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
There a several ways to save a puzzle ...lots of tips online.

*Hanging* a puzzle is one step up from a velvet Elvis, IMO. :)


30 posted on 11/18/2015 7:53:50 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: Daffynition

That is a cool puzzle. I think the largest one we have is a 3000 we got at a yard sale years ago. Still haven’t put it together.

I have about 15-20 puzzles I bought when they didn’t cost an arm and a leg. These are all in a closet waiting for the opportunity to be put together.

Lately have started buying the 300-500 piece puzzles from the Dollar Tree. Not the best quality but I wouldn’t totally flip out over a missing piece. I did a 300 a few months ago on a tv tray during my surgery recovery. If I see a puzzle I like at a yard sale or thrift shop and it is a quarter or two I take the chance all the pieces are there. I have a few that I haven’t had a chance to put together yet. Until my sister and her damn brats move out I won’t get to do the larger ones.

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If I did that large of a puzzle it wouldn’t be on the dang floor. I would put a few tables together.

Working on puzzles are calming to me. I did a few in the months after 9-11.

I have been thinking to ask my dad if he will build me a puzzle table with a turn table like I have seen online and in the puzzle catalogs.

I have been doing online jigsaws but it just isn’t the same.


31 posted on 11/18/2015 8:24:26 PM PST by CARDINALRULES (Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57 --RIP 6-22-02)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I found the pictures distracting, so I did all the puzzles from the reverse side, using just the shapes. Resulted in some interesting pix, too!


32 posted on 11/18/2015 8:29:44 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: jazusamo

“She (Hillary) is often confused.” Huma


33 posted on 11/18/2015 8:31:38 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Daffynition
and it will cost you nearly $400

While it's very nice, the author errs. It won't cost me a dime.

34 posted on 11/18/2015 8:34:07 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: r_barton
How do you even find a corner to start on? ;-)

An Exacto knife and a protractor.

35 posted on 11/18/2015 8:35:37 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

There are only four corner pieces. Those are easy. It’s the next 33,000 plus that get harder.


36 posted on 11/18/2015 8:42:08 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Larry Lucido
OK wiseguy!...LOL


37 posted on 11/18/2015 10:42:53 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: Daffynition

The largest one we did was 12,000 pieces. Our living room was L-shaped, and we did it on the floor of the short side.


38 posted on 11/19/2015 5:38:33 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Daffynition

The largest one we did was 12,000 pieces. Our living room was L-shaped, and we did it on the floor of the short side.


39 posted on 11/19/2015 5:39:20 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Daffynition
I would love to have that kind of time on my hands.

Maybe when I retire.

40 posted on 11/19/2015 5:41:33 PM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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