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Post by kadee79 on Feb 2, 2022 13:36:40 GMT -5
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 2, 2022 14:18:07 GMT -5
if you did 10 pieces a day, it would take 15 years. if you did 100 pieces a day, it would take 18 months. |
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Post by haapai on Feb 2, 2022 14:32:51 GMT -5
That puzzle would cover half of the floor space in my basement. I'd have to buy a whole lot of sawhorses and replace the florescent bulbs if I wanted to tackle it. More embarrassingly, I would have to move a lot of crap and buy another dehumidifier in order to complete that puzzle before the pieces swelled with moisture.
OTOH, that puzzle might be a bit easier to solve than the number of pieces suggests. Each of the twenty seven wonders appears to be surrounded by a black grid. Once you have connected all of the edge pieces, working on the grid seems to be the most logical next step. That keeps the number of pieces that you are handling at a time down by quite a bit, at least for a while.
The next step really scares me and reminds me of the all black and white puzzle that my family once completed, possibly over the course of months and multiple family gatherings, in a much larger and better lit house, to the exclusion of much else. Once the grid is complete and the few sections with unique patterns are filled in, the rest of the pieces will probably look pretty similar and might just take forever.
Please do not buy this puzzle for anyone that you love, no matter how much they love jigsaw puzzles or how large and well-lit their home is. They probably have better things to do and should be doing them instead of spending months doing something that they are generally good at very slowly,
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Post by busymom on Feb 2, 2022 14:56:01 GMT -5
DS would LOVE this! LOL! We just don't have the space. Not to mention, our dog loves to chew anything made of cardboard.  |
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Post by tractor on Feb 2, 2022 15:12:56 GMT -5
Anyone completed a spherical puzzle? My son did one about the size of a globe, it was bizarre. Amazingly it only took him about two days. It would have taken me ten years 😞
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Post by haapai on Feb 2, 2022 15:14:17 GMT -5
I'd love to tackle this puzzle too, if my grandparents were still alive, and they still owned that polebarn, and twenty other relatives were still returning to spend a week with their extended family. I think that we could knock it out in a week if we all worked together, served meals in the polebarn, and had a sorting rota. A huge part of getting this puzzle finished would be assigning folks to the uninteresting task of dividing the loose pieces into collections that seem to be the same color or pattern without the satisfaction of being able to connect any of them.
In order to solve this puzzle, it might be prudent to work on the sky pieces before the landscape pieces just to get something done and reduce the number of loose pieces that need to be scanned,. What a nightmare!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Feb 2, 2022 15:39:45 GMT -5
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Post by haapai on Feb 2, 2022 15:51:51 GMT -5
I just checked the dimensions of the open areas of the basement of my 800 SF (36' by 25' exterior dimensions). In order to fit the finished puzzle in my basement, I would have to knock out some non-load-bearing walls, or tilt the surface on which the puzzle is finished. Why am I even taking these measurements?
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Post by haapai on Feb 2, 2022 16:02:47 GMT -5
Oh wait! what is this talk of each image being in a separate bag? That changes everything. This isn't a 51300 piece puzzle but 27 1900-piece puzzles sold together. It isn't a 51300-piece puzzle unless you masochistically mix all the pieces together. It's easily solvable by a single person given enough time and there is no need to employ a sorting crew.
I still don't have the room.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 2, 2022 16:16:49 GMT -5
And the main draw is that you can pay for in in installments. That was the selling point for me right up front.  |
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 2, 2022 16:27:57 GMT -5
some of their reviews are amazing. best one i ever read was for the Hairbo jumbo size sugar free gummy bears. i won't give it away if you have not read it. |
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Feb 2, 2022 16:39:25 GMT -5
some of their reviews are amazing. best one i ever read was for the Hairbo jumbo size sugar free gummy bears. i won't give it away if you have not read it. I've read those. The banana slicer ones are pretty good too. |
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Post by busymom on Feb 2, 2022 16:45:34 GMT -5
This would be the PERFECT project during the pandemic, when you don't want company, and you're kind of bored anyway. (Just tell your unvaxxed relatives that if they come over, they MUST put at least one weekend into working on the puzzle. They'll avoid you, almost like the plague.)  Count me in! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 18:22:35 GMT -5
some of their reviews are amazing. best one i ever read was for the Hairbo jumbo size sugar free gummy bears. i won't give it away if you have not read it. I’ve read the reviews for those gummy bears.  |
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 2, 2022 19:34:28 GMT -5
I’ve got a cat who loves to lay on a partly done puzzle and squirm around with her front paws, bulldozing up puzzle pieces like she’s furrowing a field for crops.
A good number usually fall onto the floor and up under furniture.
It always takes me so much longer to finish a puzzle than normal people - assuming I can find all the pieces. I’d never finish a 300 foot puzzle - not as long as the terrorist is at the other end of the room rampaging through the completed parts.
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 4, 2022 14:53:53 GMT -5
some of their reviews are amazing. best one i ever read was for the Hairbo jumbo size sugar free gummy bears. i won't give it away if you have not read it. I’ve read the reviews for those gummy bears. i was laughing so hard i was literally in tears. i had to stop and wipe my eyes to finish. |
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