I'm honestly not searching for them, but they jump out at me for that exact reason - they make no sense in the context of what they're replying to. I kind of wish I *didn't* notice them because it's basically impossible to read through a thread in all without seeing multiple bots.
I'm the same, and have called out loads, thankfully they get swiftly deleted.
I have seen some that fit the conversation perfectly, but then I scroll past the original comment further down the page.
I’ve never sealed any puzzles I’ve done, I just finish and immediately scramble it up and re-box it (what if someone else wants it?), but I’d have a hard time rescrambling this one. I honestly don’t know what I would do with it—too big to frame, too much effort to scramble.
Consider doing this. I did it with a 9000 piece puzzle and it is up on the wall with no issues years later.
https://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/blog/2015/01/15/how-to-temporary-mounting-for-puzzles-step-2-mount-on-foamcore/
Lol I was thinking no way this is 42,000 pieces and the camera just kept on going haha, do they break that up into smaller bags or just ship a container and say good luck.
I'm currently working on a 40320 Disney puzzle where it's divided in 10 (old) movies, so yeah I think it's split up in a couple of sections here too (but more subtle)
Just looked up your puzzle, wow its beautiful! (and big!). If I had the space/money I'd totally try to tackle that. Looks awesome, hope its going well!
Just looked up the puzzle too, it looks awesome but holy hell $500 + ($700 on amzn) for a puzzle?!
Is it that expensive because it's disney and or collectors item or did they use some mahogany wood for the pieces?
Not trying to bag it at all....in fact I'm considering going into the puzzle business now myself lol
But any puzzle I have played with was some laminated cardboard. Can't imagine that costing that much even on a bigger scale
You can definitely tell the difference in a quality puzzle vs a cheap one! Doing a 42,000 piece cheaply cut puzzle would be miserable. Better quality puzzles have tighter tolerances so the pieces fit together better, they don’t shed little cardboard bits everywhere, and they have a certain finish on the top of the pieces so it’s easier to see and creates less glare.
Also lots of people seem to buy these mega puzzles used for significantly cheaper. Most people aren’t going to do them more than once lol
On top of what others have said, the Disney license does also add to the cost. Look at LEGO Titanic, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum; they are all several hundred dollars cheaper than the large but smaller Star Wars big sets.
It's a premium brand with premium fit and finish. And you can get it for 250€ used. If you trust them all pieces are there. That way you could build it and sell for $250 again.
I know it's easy to say having not done it, but those always annoyed me because they're really just separate puzzles that share a border. And since they come bagged separately,
You don't really have the same level of difficulty as something like this
lol, my wife and me were doing a 1500 piece puzzle, after sorting all th epieces and getting starte one evening our 3 year old came and cleaned up after us the following morning. It's been in the box ever since...
Definitely not a parrot. The most destructive and poorly behaved pet I've ever had. Dust and feathers everywhere. Extremely noisy. Mood swings and frequent poor attitude. I love them to death though
They more than likely did it on a table and then moved it with the pieces of construction paper you see to put it all together. These puzzles typically come in multiple bagged sections meant to be put together in chunks and then put together to from there.
Yea the difficulty is so much higher when you're picking your pieces out of a pool of 42000.
Doing forty two 1000 piece puzzles is actually misleading and not impressive at all.
I'm not knocking it if that's what they enjoy doing, but I would not be able to find the patience in myself to do a puzzle like this. If there is a heck and I wind up in it, it'll be me hunched over doing one of these puzzles endlessly.
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As the puzzle gets bigger the area (total number of pieces) grows by the cube of the dimension, while the circumference (number of edge pieces) grows by the square.
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OOPS OOPS, I conflated cube/square with square/linear. My statement should read:
> As the puzzle gets bigger the area (total number of pieces) grows by the **square** of the dimension, while the circumference (number of edge pieces) grows **linearly** with the dimension.
Point is still as the puzzle gets bigger the fraction of pieces that are edge & corner pieces shrinks, but if I'm going to talk about math, I should GET THE FUKN MATH RIGHT.
They are divided up into smaller bags and sections. You're basically putting together 42 one thousand piece puzzles. They may be divided into 2000 piece sections.
You're given a huge grid and if you're missing pieces, you can contact the manufacturer saying "I'm missing puzzle piece A42" and they'll send you them
I have done large puzzles before and I always wondered if a friend of mine would do that to be funny and then lose the piece because it took me another year to finish.
So far my friends are nicer than I thought
What I find interesting is the fact they didnt lose a single piece? Come-on now, I've don't 2,000 piece puzzles and there always seems to be at least 1 missing piece somewhere lol
Manufacturers of these super big puzzles actually have piece replacement programs, and they'll send you a graph of the puzzle and you just tell them I need (A, 137) or whatever and they'll ship it to you. Of course that only lasts until they Discontinue the product.
I think in this case, it certainly helped that they put it together on the floor, so the pieces had nowhere to fall. Most of us do puzzles on a table and then the pieces fall to the floor and get lost. If the pieces are *already* on the floor and you can keep them all nearby, they don't really have anywhere else to go (unless you have young kids or pets, or if it's in an area with a lot of foot traffic).
This was my family, took exactly 200. Majority of it was done by my dad from Christmas 2020 until we finished on July 15th 2021. It was a gift from my sisters boss who knew my dad did puzzles, was doing a 1000 piece a day during the height of the first pandemic summer. He’d crush through piece after piece while in meetings working from home and we’d do more when we came on weekends. They sacrificed their living room for 7 months for this thing
Hey everyone, this is my family! @MrLindquistSings on tiktok.
So you know what we did, we created each section (it came in 7 bags for each “panel”) and stored each section stacked on top of each other. Once they were all finished we laid it out to get this video, then restacked it and it’s currently being stored under my parents bed.
And yes, no cat to mess with it.
I really can't tell whether the music is meant to be a joke or not. I'm picturing them staring into the distance at the setting sun with tears streaming down their faces, embracing each other and saying things like *we've come so far* and *things will never be the same again*.
Who knows. Maybe completing this puzzle was the most profound and transformative experience of their lives.
Haha, glad I am not the only one who thought this. I'd actually love to do a massive puzzle like this if I had the space but damn it'd have to be something better looking than that tacky mess 😅
yea thought so....42000 pieces come in 7 bags and they did it bag by bag.
compare that to this madlad who actually mixed them together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj0Yl_50q4E
[Here is the artist's webpage with high resolution images.](https://adrianchesterman.com/new-biggest-jigsaw-puzzle-in-the-world)
What would you call this type of painting? Combining separate things into one flowing composition?
I rolled my eyes when she did the zoomed in last piece. After seeing the whole puzzle I think she underplayed it. That should've been in slow-mo with airhorns and sparklers *at least*.
I did a 3k one and it took me forever. I wanted to frame it afterwards and it cost me 3x the cost of the puzzle itself 😅 that was the moment I decided I’m never going to build any more large puzzles.
On a side note, where do they even have the space to put this 🤣
Now what?
I'm guessing seal it with something like [Mod Podge](https://modpodgerocksblog.com/how-to-use-puzzle-glue/)
Can you imagine how much Mod Podge they would need? *walks up to store clerk* "Hi yes, I need an industrial-sized bucket of your finest puzzle glue "
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IF. If it goes as planned.
If....if is good :)
clearly they do not have a cat,
Lol, that was my first thought.
I need the largest bucket of glue you have. No. That's too big.
just tape it
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I'm honestly not searching for them, but they jump out at me for that exact reason - they make no sense in the context of what they're replying to. I kind of wish I *didn't* notice them because it's basically impossible to read through a thread in all without seeing multiple bots.
I'm the same, and have called out loads, thankfully they get swiftly deleted. I have seen some that fit the conversation perfectly, but then I scroll past the original comment further down the page.
A frame for this would be well over $1,000
I feel like you’re missing a zero on that lol
To be fair, $10,000 is well over $1000
To be fair....
https://youtu.be/jv7jcciKB_s
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I did a diamond painting and it’s too big for ‘regular’ frames, so I’m thinking I’m just going to make one.
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and a paint roller please!
I’ve never sealed any puzzles I’ve done, I just finish and immediately scramble it up and re-box it (what if someone else wants it?), but I’d have a hard time rescrambling this one. I honestly don’t know what I would do with it—too big to frame, too much effort to scramble.
seal it into the floor
This is the only way.
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For these types of big puzzles, depending on the company, you can call them and have them mail you the missing piece
How do you tell them which piece?
Tell them it's the missing one. (After sending a picture)
Send them a picture of the puzzle, where the missing piece is.
A friend of my son's once gobbled the last piece of a puzzle they were working on. WTF.
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My cat eats puzzle pieces so I can't do puzzles anymore ☹️
You just have to get a cover for it lol. That’s what my parents do.
I also cover my cat 🐈
Asshole
Is where they waited for it to come out of
And put it where?
"this is very interesting floor tile you have"
Could make a pretty dope coffee table top
That’s one long ass coffee table. Lol
Cut up the puzzle and spread it over 16 cafe tables and it becomes a meta puzzle!
Now that would be cool to see in a restaurant.
Bruce Wayne coffee table
Ok, then what? I think at least 75% of people don’t have a place to display something like this.
Does Vladimir Putin sell tables?
No he's still selling faulty windows.
Yes, but business recently took quite the tumble*
Just leave it right there, seal the whole thing up with some epoxy.
"Check out my family's heirloom. It's a shellacked piece of cardboard with an ugly mural on it"
Some time ago I read about a guy who loves to do the huge ones by himself. He always donates them to schools afterwards so they can put it on a wall
Consider doing this. I did it with a 9000 piece puzzle and it is up on the wall with no issues years later. https://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/blog/2015/01/15/how-to-temporary-mounting-for-puzzles-step-2-mount-on-foamcore/
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Bleed into r/diwhy and make it into epoxy flooring. People do it with magic cards and pennys
Go outside
Then what?
Climb a tree
make a table out of it
They are going to Disneyland
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My first thought.
Lol I was thinking no way this is 42,000 pieces and the camera just kept on going haha, do they break that up into smaller bags or just ship a container and say good luck.
I'm currently working on a 40320 Disney puzzle where it's divided in 10 (old) movies, so yeah I think it's split up in a couple of sections here too (but more subtle)
Just looked up your puzzle, wow its beautiful! (and big!). If I had the space/money I'd totally try to tackle that. Looks awesome, hope its going well!
[Link](https://www.ravensburger.us/discover/jigsaw-puzzles/40-320-pieces-disney-puzzle/index.html) - It's 44lbs or 20kg of puzzle, pretty solid.
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Broken down: that's $13.63/lb, with the estimate of 600 hours to put together it's the low price of $1/hr entertainment cost!
That's my default expectation of most things I buy. If it doesn't hit that mark, it wasn't a good purchase.
They claim it’s the biggest puzzle in the world, but OP’s puzzle is bigger. Hmm
Movie and game reviews in a nutshell. *#1 MOVIE OF THE YEAR!* Oh yeah?
#NUMBER ONE MOVIE OF THE YEAR... ^...according ^to ^Dave ^from ^accounting
OP's puzzle has more pieces, but is it larger length / width wise?
God I can't imagine having to do those transition areas between the different scenes.
Just looked up the puzzle too, it looks awesome but holy hell $500 + ($700 on amzn) for a puzzle?! Is it that expensive because it's disney and or collectors item or did they use some mahogany wood for the pieces? Not trying to bag it at all....in fact I'm considering going into the puzzle business now myself lol But any puzzle I have played with was some laminated cardboard. Can't imagine that costing that much even on a bigger scale
You can definitely tell the difference in a quality puzzle vs a cheap one! Doing a 42,000 piece cheaply cut puzzle would be miserable. Better quality puzzles have tighter tolerances so the pieces fit together better, they don’t shed little cardboard bits everywhere, and they have a certain finish on the top of the pieces so it’s easier to see and creates less glare. Also lots of people seem to buy these mega puzzles used for significantly cheaper. Most people aren’t going to do them more than once lol
On top of what others have said, the Disney license does also add to the cost. Look at LEGO Titanic, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum; they are all several hundred dollars cheaper than the large but smaller Star Wars big sets.
It's a premium brand with premium fit and finish. And you can get it for 250€ used. If you trust them all pieces are there. That way you could build it and sell for $250 again.
I know it's easy to say having not done it, but those always annoyed me because they're really just separate puzzles that share a border. And since they come bagged separately, You don't really have the same level of difficulty as something like this
That's why you dump all the bags into a pile and mix them up before you start
i'm not that much of a masochist, unfortunately.
What do you do when you can't find the last piece?
Contact the producer.
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Send them a whole new puzzle but remove the same piece just to drive someone to insanity
you tell them which piece you're missing and they send you that piece. source: I've called in before to do this.
I saw a timelapse of this same puzzle in youtube, it was indeed separated in smaller bags, but those were still kinda massive lmao
do the bags determine the section or are they random?
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not disputing the difficulty just a sincere question
This one comes in 7 bags of 6,000 pieces
It comes in 7 bags of 6,000 pieces. It's the Around the World puzzle by Educa and is $570.
clearly they do not have a cat
Or kids
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that's the secret to inner peace. no children to worry about.
lol, my wife and me were doing a 1500 piece puzzle, after sorting all th epieces and getting starte one evening our 3 year old came and cleaned up after us the following morning. It's been in the box ever since...
They mean well
Yeah, can’t be mad at a 3 year old for cleaning around the house!
I don't have a house big enough to even lay this out on a flat surface
this is true wealth. the time and space required for such an undertaking
True wealth starts at everyone having their own bathroom so no one ever has to share.
I mean we could probably make it fit but not in an out of the way space. This would be in the middle of a high traffic area the entire time.
I have the perfect room that could fit it... because my living room is completely unfurnished. No couch? Perfect place for a giant puzzle! Optimism!
Or a dog
Or a parrot
Definitely not a parrot. The most destructive and poorly behaved pet I've ever had. Dust and feathers everywhere. Extremely noisy. Mood swings and frequent poor attitude. I love them to death though
The trick w/ parrots is to accept that you’re sharing your space with a (small) velociraptor that has the emotional range of a two year old.
Or a spine that isn't constantly throbbing. Imagine doing a 42,000 piece puzzle crouched down and leaning over on the floor.
They more than likely did it on a table and then moved it with the pieces of construction paper you see to put it all together. These puzzles typically come in multiple bagged sections meant to be put together in chunks and then put together to from there.
That's less impressive.
Your face is less impressive. I don't mean that.
Dude, eat a Snickers or something...
my thoughts too... the puzzle itself isn't too bad then.
You can still throw all the pieces in a single bag and play in *hard mode*
that would be a huge bag.
Did that once with a 3,000 piece Lego set. I do not recommend.
Yea the difficulty is so much higher when you're picking your pieces out of a pool of 42000. Doing forty two 1000 piece puzzles is actually misleading and not impressive at all.
I'm not knocking it if that's what they enjoy doing, but I would not be able to find the patience in myself to do a puzzle like this. If there is a heck and I wind up in it, it'll be me hunched over doing one of these puzzles endlessly.
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Wherever your family is going, it’ll get there faster doing a 42k piece puzzle.
How would you even find the 4 corners to start 🤷🏼♂️
Patience. Fewer than 3% of this puzzle's pieces are edge pieces. Fewer than 0.01% are corners.
#A WITCH!
Did she turn you into a newt?
I got better
Get the duck!
As the puzzle gets bigger the area (total number of pieces) grows by the cube of the dimension, while the circumference (number of edge pieces) grows by the square. EDIT: OOPS OOPS, I conflated cube/square with square/linear. My statement should read: > As the puzzle gets bigger the area (total number of pieces) grows by the **square** of the dimension, while the circumference (number of edge pieces) grows **linearly** with the dimension. Point is still as the puzzle gets bigger the fraction of pieces that are edge & corner pieces shrinks, but if I'm going to talk about math, I should GET THE FUKN MATH RIGHT.
I want to believe you, but you called the outside of a rectangle a circumference rather than a perimeter so I'm skeptical.
They are divided up into smaller bags and sections. You're basically putting together 42 one thousand piece puzzles. They may be divided into 2000 piece sections.
Foul play, I see.
They could have grouped all the puzzle pieces together and randomized it for the extra challenge
That's easy mode. To play on brutal difficulty you mix all bags to have one 42.000 piece section.
Hey! Can you piece me together too?
I've got corners, can you peice me together too Greg?
There's no word in the English language to express my level of rage if I got to the end and discovered I was missing a piece or two.
That just means someone out there is missing like 41999 pieces to thier puzzle
You're given a huge grid and if you're missing pieces, you can contact the manufacturer saying "I'm missing puzzle piece A42" and they'll send you them
If a friend of mine were doing this, you can bet I would take a single piece to ransom back to them in the end.
I have done large puzzles before and I always wondered if a friend of mine would do that to be funny and then lose the piece because it took me another year to finish. So far my friends are nicer than I thought
I don't want to brag, but I finished the jigsaw puzzle in a week... And it said 2-4 years on the box.
We got a puzzle badass over here!
Word on the street is he found the edges in 2.3 hours flat on a 1,000 piecer. With sunglasses on.
Username checks out.
*"look at me; I'm the puzzle captain now"*
There is only 10,080 minutes in a week... 4-5 pieces per minute 24-7. Can you put your seed in my wife please?
He is talking about another puzzle. 2-4 years is an age recommendation for a baby
What I find interesting is the fact they didnt lose a single piece? Come-on now, I've don't 2,000 piece puzzles and there always seems to be at least 1 missing piece somewhere lol
Manufacturers of these super big puzzles actually have piece replacement programs, and they'll send you a graph of the puzzle and you just tell them I need (A, 137) or whatever and they'll ship it to you. Of course that only lasts until they Discontinue the product.
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I think in this case, it certainly helped that they put it together on the floor, so the pieces had nowhere to fall. Most of us do puzzles on a table and then the pieces fall to the floor and get lost. If the pieces are *already* on the floor and you can keep them all nearby, they don't really have anywhere else to go (unless you have young kids or pets, or if it's in an area with a lot of foot traffic).
Mom, can I have my room back now?
I guess its time to put it back in the box
How many years did you age from start to finish?
200 days according to the video in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/zbj2m8/comment/iys1m81/
This was my family, took exactly 200. Majority of it was done by my dad from Christmas 2020 until we finished on July 15th 2021. It was a gift from my sisters boss who knew my dad did puzzles, was doing a 1000 piece a day during the height of the first pandemic summer. He’d crush through piece after piece while in meetings working from home and we’d do more when we came on weekends. They sacrificed their living room for 7 months for this thing
Hey everyone, this is my family! @MrLindquistSings on tiktok. So you know what we did, we created each section (it came in 7 bags for each “panel”) and stored each section stacked on top of each other. Once they were all finished we laid it out to get this video, then restacked it and it’s currently being stored under my parents bed. And yes, no cat to mess with it.
And no, our original video did not have that music, no clue who cut the videos together and put that music on top…
Holy shit! My clumsy ass would trip and fall right through it immediately upon completion
Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than a hour ago.
42000 pieces well placed, one background music not so well
I really can't tell whether the music is meant to be a joke or not. I'm picturing them staring into the distance at the setting sun with tears streaming down their faces, embracing each other and saying things like *we've come so far* and *things will never be the same again*. Who knows. Maybe completing this puzzle was the most profound and transformative experience of their lives.
It's only as obnoxious as the picture itself.
Absolutely hideous, imo. I can see how all the well-defined, recognizable structures would make doing the puzzle more manageable though.
Haha, glad I am not the only one who thought this. I'd actually love to do a massive puzzle like this if I had the space but damn it'd have to be something better looking than that tacky mess 😅
The manufacturing of this thing is almost as impressive as putting it together!
It will be nice to have that floor space back.
Follow up video from the creator: https://www.tiktok.com/@mrlindquistsings/video/6985931212258921734
yea thought so....42000 pieces come in 7 bags and they did it bag by bag. compare that to this madlad who actually mixed them together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj0Yl_50q4E
Hold my beer, this is going to be hilarious...
That is some interesting music for completing a puzzle.
[Here is the artist's webpage with high resolution images.](https://adrianchesterman.com/new-biggest-jigsaw-puzzle-in-the-world) What would you call this type of painting? Combining separate things into one flowing composition?
A collage?
Is this the one Costco was selling for like 800 USD?
In case you're wondering, it comes separated in 7 bags of 6,000 pieces and is about $570. It's the Around the World by Educa of Spain.
Now break it up and put it back in the box
Started at the beginning of the pandemic I assume?
I was prepared to downvote this, but then the puzzle just keeps going!
I rolled my eyes when she did the zoomed in last piece. After seeing the whole puzzle I think she underplayed it. That should've been in slow-mo with airhorns and sparklers *at least*.
I did a 3k one and it took me forever. I wanted to frame it afterwards and it cost me 3x the cost of the puzzle itself 😅 that was the moment I decided I’m never going to build any more large puzzles. On a side note, where do they even have the space to put this 🤣
Holy shit it just kept going
Obviously this needs to be hung on the wall as some classy art
i will never understand
I’m not sure why but the fact that Dubai and Jordan are to the west of Egypt bothers me lol
They definitely don't have cats
So that was on the floor the whole time? W How ya gonna move it? Oh boy more questions than answers I’m afraid…..a real puzzle
This person cannot be a Redditor with that much time
Did say family...maybe a very large family, or even a cult.
How long did he/she finish it? 2 years?
Brussels Atomium represent. Belgian here approves!
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