Grumpy's Jigsaw Puzzle Review

  This was a lot of fun, but took us over took weeks.  Sally did most of it.  It was a lot harder than I anticipated.  The fit was poor, and you could not pick up sections of more than a few pieces without them falling apart.  Regardless we enjoyed the challenge of this one.

  This is a 1500 piece puzzle we found at Goodwill.  We had a good time putting it together, other than the 3 missing pieces.  But we expected that because there were 5 pieces in a small baggie separate from the others.  We figured they were extra and it turned out that 2 were extra and 1 was from some other puzzle. 

  This was another Goodwill find a few weeks ago.  I really like this colorful image.  It was the first 1500 piece puzzle we have put together, and we enjoyed building it. There were a number of times I was convinced that a piece was missing, but it always turned up.  Early on I ran out of dark blue sky pieces and I still had two to put in right next to each other in the upper right.  I went through every piece again looking for them and was finally convinced they were  missing.  Then I discovered that I had put them in the wrong place a row below and to the left of where they belonged.  Those were the first of a number of false fits that slowed us up.  We had another at the very end when we had about 8 pieces left; one of the holes required a piece with two outs next to each other and we didn't have one.  So we looked more carefully and found our mistake. The quality of this puzzle was excellent.  The pieces were thick and they hol...