Online Jigsaw puzzles

Since my last blog, things have drastically changed again. Everyone is feeling a lot of stress due to the Covid situation around and one has to have some way to relax a little bit.

CLIK, the puzzle room has proven that 'Where there is a will, there is a way !'. They have come up with a way to keep providing puzzles which can be solved by anyone anywhere anytime. 

The most memorable puzzle

It was probably a year after the last puzzle. So I wanted a new & great puzzle! We got a beautiful sunrise with mind blowing plateau and bright blue skies which can make anyone happier just in a glance.
This was probably the fastest puzzle we put together in September - October 2014. And it is the most memorable and favourite puzzle of mine, for quite many reasons...

Puzzle Vital Stats

Pieces : 1000

Time taken to complete : Less than a month

A new challenge

I think in 2012 May, Parth went to Europe. Then he got a new challenge with him. It is a beautiful  overview of Paris with lot of streets, buildings, cars, and what not. The challenge was not to join the correct pieces of cars and buildings which look exactly the same but it was way more than that. It is a black & white picture!
It was very exciting solving this one, as we had not done any black and white picture puzzle before. I dont exactly remember how much time it took to finish this but it was still great to finish it and see another puzzle hanging on the wall.

Puzzle Vital Stats

Pieces : 1000

Colors : Black & White

Finally the Tigers came in the picture

Till early 2012 it was already more than 6 months to since I started. I was the only one solving it. But I should acknowledge the contribution from friends in solving couple of pieces and more importantly, not dismantling the pieces I had put together :)  And finally the entire picture of handsome tigers lazing around, on the background of a serene landscape was completed.

Puzzle Vital Stats

Pieces : 1000

Latest puzzles

This year in July, one of my aunts was going to come in India from USA. Harshad searched for a nice puzzle with a scene of a beach, coconut trees, brilliant blue sea and asked my aunt to get it for us.. 

Because I got married last year and not living with my parents anymore :( I could not go at home to play with puzzle very often. Somehow Harshad and my father became very busy and only my mother had some time to play with it. After a month or so, I started going at home frequently and together we progressed much more than before. In few more days, my father, Harshad and Parth joined us.

 

Few fantastic landscapes..

Another puzzle, showing scenery of a jungle with trees showing fall colors, came few years later in 2007. It was again a gift from one of my grandmothers. It was a bright, beautiful picture. It took us quite a while since there were lot many colors and same colors at many places. After it was done, we didnt know where to hang that one. Few days before we finished it, my grandparents had moved in their new home, so we decided to give this puzzle frame as a gift for the new house.

Few more puzzles

When people see that dog puzzle, they can never believe that it’s a jigsaw puzzle. They always appreciate the picture and once they hear that it’s a puzzle, they are always amazed. And then we take their amazement as an opportunity to show them all other puzzles we have done till date and see them wonder how could we do so many of these... :)

Puzzle Vital Stats  

Pieces : 1000

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.

My First Puzzles...

I dont really remember when I did my first jigsaw puzzle. I only remember the puzzle I had. It was my favourite.  It had a picture of 2 cats sitting on a pile of wool, looking forward to play with the balls of wool. It had 63 pieces in all. I guess I was 5-6 at that time and we did not use to get such big puzzles for kids, in India. One of my grandmothers had bought it for me from USA.

Around the same time I had another puzzle which had a picture of a hot air balloon with 2 bunnies in it. A few other animals, gathered below near a house to see off those 2 bunnies. This had 60 pieces. This puzzle had many colors in it, so I guess it may have been a challange for me at that time..

How we started “Puzzling”

A few months back when my parents, Harshad (my brother) and myself were playing with a new jigsaw puzzle , my husband Parth had come over to join in. Knowing our family’s interest in puzzles, he started nagging me to write a puzzle blog. We started taking pictures of the puzzle as we progressed... and finally, I decided to give it shot and write something...

How we started “Puzzling”

In 1996-97 when I was around 13 years old, my mother’s friend Sadhana mavshi who had came back from a USA trip, gave us a jigsaw puzzle as a gift. It was a scene having snow clad peaks, below which there were trees showing fall colors having 1000 pieces. We were very excited about the puzzle as we had never solved such a large one till now..