Tuesday, February 11, 2014

DR day 9 + A Talking Jigsaw Puzzle!?!?

first of all my double retrospect update...

 Started the green, and finished all of the dolphin green/black... tonight I start the ground in the panel with the single headed siamese twins. It took me three and a half hours total as I spent 30 minutes sorting out the green/black, and another hour sorting through the blue, orange, and red pieces to find any with green on them...

This is one BIG lesson learned, next section I need to have a plan in mind as to which order I'm going to do the colors... for this section I just sorted any pieces that had two colors (on either side of a black line) into whichever color was most prominent... but because of this, I had to sort through almost all the colors a second time for those pieces with small amounts of pink/green because it's annoying to have a break in an outline that can be filled by a single piece you sorted into another box... I hope that all made sense =)

Meanwhile I started thinking about these puzzles, it's a series of 5 puzzles (I have two, the school, and the hospital) basically the puzzle itself is super easy to assemble, however most of the puzzle is made up of identical windows, with identical shapes, that can fit anywhere in the puzzle... the challenge is to logically figure out where the windows go by what's happening in the panels... they're super fun puzzles, but it seems that they've gotten super expensive to buy online (although that doesn't mean I'm not going to try)

There is a 6th puzzle that was released only in europe, it's elvis' heartbreak hotel, and it's the largest of the series, however this one is next to impossible to find
 there was also a series of 5 similar puzzles by the same artist, similar idea, except the box includes a frame that fits around the rectangular box, and you build the puzzle in 3 dimentions... I've never tackled one of these puzzles (although I own the one pictured below), but I've always thought that the way it's set up looks rather flimsy... I'll do it someday though =)
and finally an example of the pieces...

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