The week before Christmas, Neatnik and I needed to pick up a few things at the big warehouse membership club store. One of the things which we did not need to pick up, but decided to buy anyway was a small carton which contained seven jigsaw puzzles. There is one 300 piece puzzle, four 500 piece puzzles, two 750 piece puzzles, and one 1000 piece puzzle.
Jigsaw puzzles can be a fun family entertainment. We have finished the 300 piece puzzle and all four of the 500 piece ones, too. We are currently fitting together the picture of the Albuquerque Balloon Festival, which seems somehow masochistic given the whiteout conditions outside our windows. Our white Christmas was slightly delayed...
While all of the puzzles have been enjoyable, the fourth of the 500 piece puzzles was, well, a bit puzzling.
Like most people, we pull out all of the corners and edges first. Once we have the frame completed, we start sorting the pieces by color and builing chunks of the interior. The Keukenhof Gardens puzzle has wide swathes of colors. We did the sea of yellow flowers first and the ocean of red blossoms second. That's when we noticed that one of the red pieces seemed to be missing.
Number Guy and I crawled around under the table looking for the missing piece. Not locating it after several trips around the dining room, we decided to ignore that little hole until all the rest of the puzzle was finished. When all of the other holes in the puzzle were filled with jigsaw puzzle pieces, we had a piece without a home.
We searched the puzzle carefully and I removed one piece from it. Do you notice anything at all odd about the piece I removed and the leftover piece?
No, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. We have two identical pieces,
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That would drive me absolutely insane. I'd be tempted to take some paint and *make* the darn thing match. LOL Granted, I'm a little OCD.
Contact the manufacturer...best case, they might send you the missing piece...OR another puzzle!
Either way, you should let the large warehouse store know so they are aware in case they do future business with the company.
Oh no! We're just doing a 1000 piece one and can't find one of the edge pieces. They look like fun.
How maddening!!
The Albuquerque Balloon Festival is gorgeous to see.
I admire your puzzling. I don't have the patience for that. I want all the pieces to fit at one sitting. Now, I can take hours, days even, to do a crossword puzzle. Go figure.
I'm glad you're shoveling and I'm not this time.
I love puzzles and we have often used holiday vacation times to put them together on the table. I have one of those puzzle roll up things which we can use to put away in progress puzzles.
I've never seen a double piece before. It's odd.
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