Moving to bigger puzzles :)

When we moved in our new house in August 2002, we wanted to do another big puzzle soon. It had been few years since our 1st puzzle. In that Diwali, my mother and Harshad had gone for some diwali gift shopping in ‘Khelia’. This shop was our favourite cause it always provided some brain storming games for all age groups rather than only dolls and such toys. The shop had some puzzles but they didnt keep any bigger puzzles due to less demand. Then they had gone to ‘Popular Book House’ for further shopping. The Popular had a catalogue of puzzle pictures, from which any picture could be ordered. My mom and Harshad found this picture of a gorgeous alsatian dog sitting on a lawn. They liked it and bought it immediately.

Puzzle Vital Stats

Pieces : 1500

Time taken to complete : around 1.5 months

The dog reminded us of a pet dog Jimmy, one of our grandmothers had had. It was a great dog to play with and have around. The dog had died few years before we got this puzzle...

This picture was hanging in our room till few days back, before we decided to replace it with another puzzle.

How did we go about solving puzzles...

   1. We needed to observe the picture to know what kind of colors and obejects it has, just to get a hang of it.

   2. We needed to organise the pieces to get started with it. First we divide all pieces into border pieces and other pieces. When we put the border pieces together we create a reference and a boundery with which it becomes easier to progress.

   3. Still there were a lot of pieces with 3-4 shapes, many different colors and shades of them. So we divide them by colors and further by shapes.

   4. It required quite a lot of concentration so that you can look at the picture and know where a piece may fit.

Harshad is quite good at fitting pieces at right places by comparing the picture on the box with the puzzle picture completed. I however, can not fit pieces like that very easily, but I am good at observing shapes and colors of pieces and fit them together. I generally dont fail with this and everyone else sometimes get annoyed, because they keep observing the pictures and meanwhile I fit the pieces :P