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Well the lockdown has beaten me and I've just purchased my first jigsaw puzzle for about 15 years , anyone else into these puzzles ?

Me. I've got a couple to do. They can become compulsive, especially in a long lockdown.

My daughter-in-law works for a kids toy company (a small one) and their sales of jigsaws through Amazon have boomed

According to Caitlin Moran every middle class lockdown home has an unfinished posh one on the go: some classic art work with just the edges done before being abandoned - in favour of virtual pub drinking sessions on zoom heavily featuring Hendricks & Fever Tree Tonic, where they can compare how their sourdough starter is just so amazing.

I ordered one off the Internet. When I opened the box it was in like a thousand pieces!

I am a fan of Wasjig's.

I use a Jigsaw game on the laptop, which is quite fun.

All the pieces are the right way up and orientation. It's alright and passes the time between meals.

We've been through three 1,000 piece jigsaws already. They were landscapes of Paris, London and New York. The hardest one was Paris, as the majority of it was featureless blue sky either side of the Eifel Tower.

I bought one the other day it said 5/6 years on the box but I completed it in two days.

I used to love doing them when i was a kid.

Dont know if id have the will to now.

i did one once with 500 pieces got to the end two missing.

My mates been trying to do one for two weeks, its driving him mad, 10,000 pieces with a picture of a chicken on the front

I have not got the heart to tell him that its a box of cereals !

I have a James Alabi jigsaw- it goes to pieces in the box

Constanza wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:08 pm I have a James Alabi jigsaw- it goes to pieces in the box

Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:48 pm We've been through three 1,000 piece jigsaws already. They were landscapes of Paris, London and New York. The hardest one was Paris, as the majority of it was featureless blue sky either side of the Eifel Tower.

We tried a Paris one too and also thought it was hard, possibly because a number of pieces of Notre Dame were missing.