You did it, Karen!! Congrats on solving the puzzle from hell. It was super interesting to see your approach to solving it compared to my approach. I think I pretty exclusively went by the grid pattern as there are a few different line types that make up the grid. I oriented the pieces (as you suggested earlier in the video) to match the final image. This kind of helped, coupled with looking for specific pieces that have a specific line type running through an "out" or "in" at a specific angle. But wowza, it was a tough puzzle for sure. The sheer variety of piece shapes (some were so tiny and some were so big!) definitely did my head in at times. Again, congrats! And apologies for any headaches introducing this puzzle into your world brought. ;)

@KarenPuzzles

Жыл бұрын

I definitely used the grid image a bit (being like, ok I need an out with a darker brown line right on the edge of it). I like that there are different approaches you could take!

@liamkearns363

Жыл бұрын

@@KarenPuzzles Right? As soon as I opened the box, I had a strong feeling you'd want to get your hands on it, given how bizarre the image is along with the insane puzzle shapes. Again, congrats on solving. I feel like we need medals...or at the very least some badges/pins. ;)

@gagandeepkaur6546

Жыл бұрын

A couple of Puzzle nerds is what you guys are...... Insane

@soxnation1000

Жыл бұрын

here are medals for you both! 🏅🏅This puzzle looks insane!

@liamkearns363

Жыл бұрын

@@soxnation1000 Awe, shucks!

I love reading editing-Karen's thoughts while watching Karen speak 😂

@KarenPuzzles

Жыл бұрын

I've been inspired by Trixie Mattel's editor lately 😂

@eurydice5890

Жыл бұрын

@@KarenPuzzles icons inspiring icons

@oscarkamala

Жыл бұрын

@@KarenPuzzles iconic, she has the best editor

@yesterdaydream

Жыл бұрын

@@KarenPuzzles heck yes!!

@RileyGein

Жыл бұрын

Need a Trixie x Karen collab

Liam is an unintentional evil genius for sending the puzzle.

@DJcyberslash

Жыл бұрын

Ken

@delaneykeller1389

Жыл бұрын

@@DJcyberslash nah Ken sent the first one

A poem….. for Karen Puzzling the puzzles that make you go mad Will this one be fun? Will this one be bad? Sifting and sorting, you laugh, then you cry When you realise. Oh no! And you just wonder why Why did you start this puzzle today? Why were you born to love puzzles this way? You love them, you hate them. You just can’t pretend Why does this stupid puzzle just never end? How long will it last? Why won’t it stop? Where is the piece on the floor that you dropped? You sit and you wonder. But never give up. Because puzzles are something that you just………..always love.

@Z123z

Жыл бұрын

I rate this poem a 5 puzzles pieces outta 5

@rebesway

Жыл бұрын

I loved this!

@kileyslife7541

Жыл бұрын

I want to see this written out and made into a 5,000 piece puzzle

@LDinoise

Жыл бұрын

@@kileyslife7541 Would be so nice!

Karen. GIRL. Don’t you know us regular folk spend 10 hours on a normal (aka easy) puzzle?! Your experience here is how we often feel with any puzzle! It can take a good while but we keep going because puzzles are fabulous and we like to see a task well done.

Honestly I can spend 10 hours on a puzzle with a very “easy” image so the fact that you finished this one in this amount of time is mind blowing to me haha. I would have wasted at least 2 weeks of my life to get it done. But the satisfaction of finishing a difficult puzzle is always worth it

@ilovecheese803

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Same here.

@ColorwaveCraftsCo

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same

@teijaflink2226

Жыл бұрын

Same and then suddenly confused why there are grey hairs on my head, I suppose there are worse things to waste your life on.

The amount of videos Karen makes that start with "This shouldn't be too hard" and end with "I was wrong" is hilarious to me. 🤣

Even with hard puzzles you never lose any progress, so even if it takes an hour to put a single piece in, that's still progress and you'll get there eventually. I did a 1000 piece photomosaic puzzle and it took me over a month. It was helpful to remind myself that even minimal progress was still progress and I got there in the end. Grid.

@thomashenden71

Жыл бұрын

So you are actually saying that with analog backup, there is no need for batteries or power to keep the backup? Incredible! 😄

@victory6924

Жыл бұрын

I truly needed to be reminded of that. Thank you 🥰

@andyiswonderful

Жыл бұрын

But it isn't fun.

@dianemarcina4871

Жыл бұрын

@@andyiswonderful We each have to decide what we consider fun :-) If you're not enjoying a puzzle, by all means, put it away

This is definitely the type of puzzle that would sit on the table for months and people would stare at, try a couple pieces, then walk away until we eventually get sick of looking at it and put it back in the box. Not for casual puzzling, but you made it happen! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

i want to give a moment to appreciate how much research karen did to find out as much as she could with the second puzzle

This video was all over the place 😂 Don't worry, I'll be doing an easier and more fun puzzle next week! Would you have finished the Jigsaw Puzzle jigsaw puzzle?

@Matty_0917

Жыл бұрын

I would do even worser I think 😅

@stefanierice9267

Жыл бұрын

I love your beautiful shirt.

@Ibird4

Жыл бұрын

I won't be able to do it

@rgs8970

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't do it for a video, but I can see myself working on it for weeks just to prove something to myself 🤦🏻

@joeholloway4112

Жыл бұрын

Video was fine , I would have tried my best to finish. Probably would have taken longer than 10 hours though lol

After being subscribed for months I finally found the courage to do my first puzzle. A super easy 500 pieces puzzle that took me days, but I did it! Super proud of myself haha

I love puzzles, but I love easy puzzles. This kinda stuff is honestly a whole different hobby. I'd go crazy trying to put this together

@ryanmichaeldumas621

Жыл бұрын

This type of puzzle honestly reminds me of my favourite puzzles - Hello Fish makes gorgeous wooden puzzles, and I have several from their planetary series. They are so well-done and high quality, but also the shapes are weird and difficult. They're a lot of fun, and take me, someone who doesn't puzzle much, about 10 hours per 75 pieces. It's so rewarding though, moreso than a cardboard puzzle imo. I def recommend trying the moon puzzle, if you csn

Ok but how COOL are those vintage puzzle boxes?! Looking forward to Karen unintentionally teaching me resilience in this video! 😂

@kimberlee9608

Жыл бұрын

30:56 the moment when I thought Karen’s laughs were about to turn into cries… GRID

What a challenging grid! A challenge I almost gave up on is my PhD. A year ago I was considering quitting & getting a masters instead. But I did some soul searching & decided to stick with it. My graduation is in April!!! So, soon I’ll have doctorate in microbiology and all it took is 5 years of not giving up😅

I like your enthusiasm as that is why I subscribed to your channel,Karen. I do not do puzzles but dig your doing them instead as the vibe you give off is just so nice and kind-of a switch from so much that is negative in this world! Keep it up and stay positive as that is how to live!

I'm retired for 1 1/2 yrs. My daughter brought me back to puzzling after MANY years. I was lucky to find you. You are so easy & fun to watch. I love my 300-500 large piece puzzles. I'm living through you. You are amazing!!! Keep up the great work.

My husband laughs when I watch your videos. He says you sound like me saying "why do I do this to myself" - happens often when I'm doing 300-400 pieces of black night sky. I love that grid puzzle. The shapes are awesome. I think I may have a puzzle by that brand in my stash - the image you showed top left of the castle!! I will have to pull out that box when I get home tomorrow.

To anyone who loves random piece shapes but doesn't want to go crazy due to a repetitive image I'd recommend Eurographics' Wassily Kandinsky puzzle. I've only done one so far but it was sooo much fun. I love doing art puzzles lately because it really makes you appreciate the art so much more and this one is so colorful and full of variety.

@dianemarcina4871

Жыл бұрын

The color study of squares? I did that one and adored it :-)

That Eaton puzzle is gorgeous! Having the pieces in the art be giant, the cut be full of weird/atypical pieces... such a great idea!

This seems like the kind of puzzle that is a good training for a competition because you have to push through although you’re not into it and it’s really hard.

This year I found a new job in a foreign country (Japan) and found an apartment for myself! It was super difficult, but I did it and I'm so proud of myself!

I can't believe you finished this! This grid was insane, you're so good at what you do!

I appreciate all the information you seek out and share about these vintage puzzles. They're so interesting to learn more about!

I often think with these kind of puzzles that once it is just all the same texture, if it is a busy texture, I would find it easier to find the shapes with the puzzle flipped over so that my eyes can focus on that one thing and not get distracted by the grid. Not that it can't also help, it feels like a tough call and obviously you can't easily switch half way through the puzzle. Congrats on persevering - I think your life choices are awesome, so long as you are also happy with them!

The 299 cats (and a dog) puzzle from Laurence King puzzle was quite an experience!!! The first time I tried it, I put it right back in the box, ready to sell it. Then I gave it another try cause it's such a different puzzle, and I probably spent 50 hours on it, on and off while doing other puzzles, but it was soooo addictive, and the handful of cats I would place everyday was so worth it! I finished it, and bought the 299 dogs and a cat and the 299 fish and a diver! Can't wait to start them!

One I noticed is that the piece orientation seemed to be on a diagonal from the 'grid' so that was probably another element in making this one extremely challenging... But at least it wasn't the Heinz all red puzzle. Lol

I can't believe that you stuck it out. That took some incredible will-power to say to yourself that you weren't going to give up. I commend you!

Can you PLEASE do a Dollar Store series? I love puzzles but I can only afford cheap ones. I’m interested in the comparisons. Thanks, and love your videos!

@diethylmalonate

Жыл бұрын

I vaguely remember seeing a video on it many years back, it had brands like Puzzlebug. Also keep a lookout for thrift stores, some of them have basically dollar store prices. I found a Krypt for $2 just last week.

There used to be by a line by MB called "world's craziest puzzles" or similar in the 90s. Their hardest puzzle IMO was a Dalmatian puzzle that had the same image printed on the back side but rotated by 90°. That one was a nightmare, maybe you could find it! I loved some of their puzzles that were more like logic puzzles! You had to first put together all the elements (windows, crossings in a park) and then put together the puzzle based on the clues! Super fun! There's also a line I'm surprised I have never seen on your channel called Wazgij, where you have one scene on the box but the picture on the puzzle is what happens afterwards (e.g. a robber about to enter a store on the box and the robbery is the puzzle image). You should try to find those, they're so different from normal puzzles. Lot's of fun 😀

@DanaPAH

Жыл бұрын

I have that Dalmatian puzzle and gave up on it within a week, lol. I've kept it on the very off chance that I'd like to attempt it again. It's one of a series from Buffalo Games puzzles called the "World's Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle."

This reminds me of a 1500 sepia toned, Wizard of Oz puzzle I did a couple years ago. Took me forever to do and literally just had to go piece by piece to finish. But it was super satisfying when I finished! I would definitely have had to work it by the grid pattern! Great job finishing!

This is why KZread can be awesome The fun and enjoyment and passion for jigsaws is something i never thought id ever watch...buy here we are 🇬🇧🇺🇸

I’ve done that puzzle before!!! Sometime in the 80’s. Hated it. Drove me CRAZY!!! Ended up solving it by turning it over. It’s actually easier to do it blank green. There were a few with that same crazy piece shape with really tricky images, and they were easier upside down, too. There’s a pattern so ‘squiggly line’, regular cut, both horizontally and vertically, and turned a quarter turn. It’s actually easier to see the shapes on the back, as the grid doesn’t interfere.

I usually do puzzles without looking at the picture on the box. It’s just as fun

Wow! You really took us on an emotional/intellectual roller coaster with this video! It started out like a light and breezy little romcom, then a little documentary in the middle, then a dark comedy at the end, where it was funny for the viewers, but not for the "character" in the film. I don't know if there's another video of your where I laughed as much as I did with this one 😄

You’re doing a public service…working these puzzles so we don’t have to!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Congrats!!! 🎉🎉

I'm watching your video and see and hear you struggling while I'm at a Puzzle I left lying in the corner in a Puzzle-rug for about a year, because I don't wanted to finish the hard part of it😅... The ground is a greyish white with a little bit of Texture, it's a bone-stone-plastered ground 🙈(it's a Puzzle my husband gifted to me on christmas many years ago with a picture of us in our wedding carriage, which is standing in our yard in front of houses and garages, and I knew from the beginning, it's gonna be hard to solve it, because of the many grey tones and the blurriness of the picture) . It is really helping me to keep up the work on it while watching or hearing your videos of difficult puzzles. Thank you for your work and passion. Many greatings from Germany. Yours Kerstin

I really love that you include the puzzling sounds now in the timelapses!

Congrats!! ...and thanks! I had so much fun watching this video.

This was a fun video! I enjoyed the history and the puzzles. Watching you piece together the Grid was so impressive!!

My family and I got our grandmother a custom Ravensburger puzzle and we can't wait!

Always good to see more of Karen's puzzle-based detective work. 👍☺️

Grid. Amazing job. Keep up the great job.

I loved the first puzzle Timelapse. It was a beautiful solve.

I'm currently doing a 2,000 after you inspired me when I was working on a 1,500. We shall 👀 if I can finish it. These two are the biggest I've ever tried and I'm 57 yrs old! No, I wouldn't have tried that puzzle at all. So congrats 👏 to you!!

I just looooove that you are including the click Sounds in some shots of putting pieces in

Love your research into the origin of the puzzles! And as always love watching you solve puzzles and your commentary about the process! I did a puzzle once with those kind of random shapes and it was very hard and very frustrating! But it was not nearly as difficult of a design as the GRID Jigsaw Puzzle. But I finally got it done! And you did too! Congratulations! Loved your aside commentary!

Love your videos and all the insite of puzzling. This one is way to tough for me. Can't wait until the next video. Puzzle on

Good for you for sticking to it and finishing the puzzle! I would definitely try the grid puzzle. I have two puzzles from the Another View line and they both have the same random piece cut. They are both 1000 pieces which made them even harder than a 500 piece one but both had pictures on them which helped some. One of them shows up in your screen shots (horse racing). I also had the sunflower one which was 500 pieces, but I sold it. I really appreciate the research you did on C. R. Gibson to see where the puzzles came from. You will have to compare the difficulty of the maze puzzle compared to the grid when you get around to the maze. That was the most difficult puzzle that I've done.

Karen, I wrote a puzzle poem a few weeks ago. It's very short, but here it is, for your enjoyment. The red and blue and yellow ones fit nicely into place, The ornaments upon the tree and presents at its base. Now all I have are branches green, pine needle pieces strange. A corner here, an edge piece there, I struggle to arrange.

Thank you for the frequent uploads! ❤

Great job Karen, well done on persevering. Sorting pieces by their shape is the way I always used to do puzzles and, for some strange reason, it had never occurred to me to sort by colours until I started watching your videos.

Well done Karen, well done! 👏 love the "Grid" but love you tenacity to stick with it!

The Eaton Puzzle was much better than I thought it would be. It's so nice.

Those clicking sounds of pieces being put where they belong in the puzzle are oh so satisfying to hear! And congratulations on puzzles well done!

Thanks for the puzzleyou recommendation! I already ordered one!

I love all the videos with a history treasure hunt element, and it was very satisfying that you didn’t give up. So ‘seventies of them to make it beige and brown!

Grid! Amazing. We knew you could do this. Amazing as always. Best regards!!

So things that I persevered through like you did on this grid puzzle: Grinding in JRPGs. Breeding for competitive pokemon. Breeding for shiny pokemon. Forgetting your bus money so you have to walk home.

this was so satisfying to watch!

So proud that you never gave up. But after watching you for so long I knew you would not give up. ❤

your editing is so satisfying!

I love rubbing puzzles after I finish them. They have cool textures.

Your Great. Love all your video's. Wish I could cheer you on live. NEVER GIVE UP! LOVE.

Congrats Karen on the hard GRID puzzle! I would have given up, but I was able to persevere on my biggest challenge yet. My dissertation...Thanks for your wonderful content.

Wow! Bravo! Congratulations! Grid!

The dramatic score!!! ❤❤❤

You’re my favorite puzzle geek ever!! ❤️💯

Congratulations! That’s impressive!

That thunk noise of the pieces locking into place is very satisfying.

Well done Karen for sticking with it!!👏👏👏

Yes! You did it. Congratulations! On finishing it and on 200,000 subscribers. I hoped you would still get to that in 2022! 🤗 Grid

Karen, you're amazing! I kept cheering for you the whole video, wishing you to not give up, which you didn't! Keep on this incredible energy of yours! "Be always off of the Grid!" ;-) Cheers!!

Congrats! You did it!

I have several Springbok puzzles. They are very nice.

Making and soldering jump ring are tedious and stressful but preserved and got better

P.s Such a beautiful puzzle design 🙂 I really love this first one. The grid puzzle is bonkers.

Brilliant editing!

Now you’ve set me on a Pam Marker stalking search. I have to Connecticut the dots! I love that you give so much history on the companies of these puzzles.

loved this

The grid was crazy. I would not have finished the puzzle. I have only quit one puzzle before but when I am not having fun, then why? So glad you finished it. Loved all the info you found about the puzzle.

The satisfaction of linking two big islands.

I love your top!

Congrats! Amazing job. I wouldn't have stuck out that grid puzzle. Life is too short for puzzles that aren't fun and I wouldn't have enjoyed that one at all. Thank you for the puzzleYOU code. I'm getting one with the grandkids on it for my dad for Christmas.

Just want to say thank you for the Puzzle You discount! I've never heard of this company but as soon as you showed your puzzle I had to pause and jump over to that site! I made one of my almost 2 year old son and I am SOOOO excited to get it and put it together. I am actually giddy with excitement. Thank you!

You crack me up!! Love to watch you !!! Grid…

Congrats on 200k subscribers🎉👏

congrats on 200k!

Omg I love that black and white sweater SO MUCH AAA it’s adorable!

So funny to see this video today since I ordered a puzzle from PuzzleYou just a day before you posted this video! Your stamp of approval makes me so much happier with my purchase.

@KarenPuzzles

Жыл бұрын

I live to hear that! And you could try emailing them to find see if you could get the discount applied!

Grid. You make my heart happy.

Way to bear and grid it with that Jigsaw Puzzle puzzle. I always appreciate the research and history you do on puzzles!

@leslieherring381

Жыл бұрын

LOL, Grid and Bear It would have been a great title for this video 😅.

I’ve found a copy of the tennis one on eBay and it came in today! Very excited!

I can't help finding the irony in jigsaw companies being from CONNECTiCUT, it's right there in the name 🙈

Great job finishing this grid puzzle. Must have been extremely difficult. I remember doing a similarly difficult puzzle which was a picture mosaic, where a picture was created of hundreds of very small pictures. The pictures were so unhelpful, at the end I resorted to just trying each piece to places until I finished the puzzle. It was almost like doing a solid color puzzle. By the end I almost hated it and swore never to do any such puzzle again.If you ever think about doing such a puzzle, I recommend that you don't. :)

I would definitely tape this puzzle to show that I conquered it because no way would I want to do that again nor would I want to inflict this on anybody else (unlike Liam! LOL)

Exactly the kind of puzzles I'm looking for

I just did a Magic Eye puzzle from the 90's and I felt many of these feelings while I did it.

The Eaton puzzle looks like fun!

I definitely would have sorted those pieces aligned with the grid like you first thought, pattern alignment my go-to when I'm stuck on large "plain" areas like out-of-focus grass 😄 And those wacky piece shapes would definitely keep me engaged too! The most frustrating puzzle I've done was actually a fairly regular 1000-piece photo of some courtyard/castle, but it was from the 80s and printed on cardboard that was as thick as maybe 3 sheets of printer paper, and the pieces did NOT want to stay together. Every little accidental nudge just destroyed the image. But I was adamant on finishing it, the puzzle had haunted me since I was a kid, and eventually I did it!

@KarenPuzzles

Жыл бұрын

That's the worst, when it's the quality of the pieces that stands in your way!