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Jigsaw
Puzzles are just fascinating. They are challenging, yet fun games. It gives you
an incredible feeling of happiness when you have found another fitting part,
and even more when you have finished the puzzle and look at the completed picture.
As a jigsaw
puzzle enthusiast, it was quite obvious that one day, I’ll combine my two
hobbies – puzzles and LEGO. This day has come now, resulting in this 24-parts
jigsaw puzzle. At first, you assemble each puzzle piece, afterwards, you try to
bring them into the correct order and orientation – so in fact, you build two
puzzles one after the other! As the number of pieces is quite low, also
inexperienced people can easily solve the puzzle, maybe leading them to puzzle
even real ones. The puzzle consists of 24 pieces – so why don’t you put them
into an advent calendar and guide this person to puzzling? On Christmas, he
finally could receive a real 1000 parts puzzle! But also puzzle maniacs will
enjoy such an advent calendar!
Just like
real ones, this puzzle has a picture as motif, depicting a nature scene with a
lake, a field and a house on a green meadow. In the background, some mountains
reach into the cloudy sky being illuminated by the sun. The image features some
artistic effects like broken lines making the scene look more interesting. To
give the impression of more realism, you might look from further away, so the
outlines will disappear and make everything more smooth. However, the motif can
be chosen quite arbitrarily, only the availability of the parts in the specific
colours give limitations. This allows the building of hundreds of different
puzzles – a dream for people like me! What about a castle scene, a waterfall or
a pure-white puzzle? The method of construction even doubles this number: the
image can be flipped by just turning the parts!
I created
four types of puzzle pieces: one for the middle with two tabs and two cuts, two
for the edge with either two tabs and one cut or one tab and two cuts, as well
as one type for the corners with one tab and one cut. The dimensions of the
final jigsaw puzzle can be freely chosen (with an increment of 10 studs = 1
piece), as the pieces always fit into each other. You get a space filling
tiling. So in conclusion: the flexibility of the puzzle is endless. You can
build nearly everything, only limited by your own imagination.
Information
about size and weight:
Total
(assembled state): 2694 parts, 60 x 40 x 2 studs, 1744 g
Middle piece: 116 parts, 18 x 10 x 2 studs, 73 g
Edge piece type 1: 125 parts, 18 x 10 x 2 studs, 83 g
Edge piece type 2: 98 parts, 10 x 14 x 2 studs, 63 g
Corner piece: 107 parts, 10 x 14 x 2 studs, 72 g
All parts are existing in the used colours. I’ve also built a physical
model of two puzzle pieces, which proved the possibility and simplicity of
assembling and disassembling the jigsaw puzzle, as well as the stability of
each piece.
Note: The
white puzzle pieces in the images above are only for showing the shape, they
are not part of this LEGO Ideas project.