S/O jigsaw thread - hard puzzles

I’ve done around 20 from that list, and own another half dozen that I haven’t got around to yet. Some of them, specifically the Cloudberries and Galison ones aren’t particularly difficult. I have never tried a Krypt jigsaw, and have no intention of ever doing so! I think the gradient and rainbow ones are fairly straightforward, but I hate ones like numbers 2 and 19. To me they are just boring and I would get no pleasure from them whatsoever. 😄

I've done a gradient puzzle. I used a really good light and it wasn't that hard. I've seen some of those on the list in the store (B&N). There are quite a few on that list that I would love to try. Some don't look hard (like the Manhattan one), but that is what I said about one puzzle I did. The way the pieces were cut made it difficult. The pieces were not standard puzzle shapes. Thanks for the list! I am going to try to find some of those!

If you guys want a small but challenging puzzle, I recommend this one of the Rosetta Stone.

www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/rosetta-stone-jigsaw-puzzle.html

I bought it as a gift for my Dad, and after he completed it, he said, "You have to do this puzzle, it's really quite hard." So when he was done I did it, and it is! The shape of the puzzle is like the stone, so the edge pieces are hard to determine. And with all the little scritches that aren't easily identifiable to English speaking eyes it's hard to figure out what actually goes together. Also, the colors change in the light. A piece in bright sunlight can look completely different at night under incandescent.

During pandemic I gave it to MIL and DH's aunt who loves hard puzzles. Aunt's DH will hide the box so she has to do them without photos. She also was impressed by how difficult a simple 800 piece puzzle of an actual object could be. As opposed to the single colors, or gradient style puzzles. We're not sure if it's MIL's thing, but she still has it.

We've done quite a few on the list. Bgraamiens puzzles are definitely a favorite for me. 

Others on the list don't interest me at all, like #16 where it looks like almost every piece is one of two shapes?

I'll add in this pizza puzzle which still ranks high as one of the most challenging for us. Much, much harder than it looks. 

I agree.  Some of them don’t actually look difficult, I’ve done no 14 the Rainbow Gradient, it wasn’t difficult and I did it in a day. But I don’t see the point of doing the really difficult ones. I wouldn’t get enjoyment from it.  

I’ve always randomly done jigsaws but since Covid I’ve probably done near to 50.  Thankfully my family all enjoy them so we swap.