Does Anyone Else Love Jigsaw Puzzles?

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I really enjoy putting together puzzles. My son is good at it too. My husband thinks we are both goofy because it takes him forever to fit one piece while we are just plopping them in. Right now I am working on a pretty hard one of wolves. Most of it is the same color and the pieces are deceptive in thier sameness of size, shape and fit.

i'm not very interested in jigsaws now but, according to my mum, i used to insist on completing the same set of jigsaws everyday before i did anything else (it started when i was eighteen months old). i don't have the patience for jigsaws, anymore, so i haven't done one in ages!

No, I am absolutely terrible at solving jigsaw puzzles. During my freshman year in college, some of the students would play with jigsaw puzzles sometimes, including my roommate, who excelled at them. I tried to join in as an ice breaker, but I rarely contributed even one piece to the puzzle. I usually thought I had a piece that looked like it fit but didn't. I found the venture more frustrating than fun after a while.

yep. love them.

always up for a good puzzle.

Yes, I love jigsaws. They let my mind calm and settle and work out conflicts...I find it very satisfying. I always wonder what to do with the finished puzzle though, since it isn't any fun to do the same puzzle again.

I love jigsaw puzzles. It feels like I can sort ideas within my mind while sorting their pieces and placing them in the right order.
I have always been very good at them, to the point of making my kindergarten mates mad at me because they could not succeed in completing them themselves. I just avoid to have people around while solving one nowadays.

Used to do alot of puzzles. But dont have the time for them anymore.

I love em. I was good at them at age two my doctors wrote. Now I don't do them anymore because well I am not going to keep buying jigsaws and putting them together. I have some at home but I have already done them except one or two. I prefer putting a puzzle together once. I used to do them at shockwave until they changed it and now they charge you to use their site now. I can't do all jigsaws there anymore.

I LOVE them.

I enjoy jigsaw puzzles however I haven't done any recently

I love 'em too. I have discovered a lot about them as well. Like, the differences in them. The fuzzier and more like a painting the puzzle is, the harder it is to put together. The easier ones have sharper, clearer lines or are cartoons, maps or city scapes.
I bought two puzzles a while back that I thought looked nice but after I got the pieces out and saw that most were exactly alike, I gave them to someone else and they couldn't put either of them together, so they will probably end up in a garage sale. They're 1000 pieces each and barely fit on the kitchen table!
I bought a puzzle called Home From The Fair and it was a painting by someone named Jack Terry, from Wal Mart where there wasn't a lot of selection unless I wanted a 1000 piece puzzle (too large). I liked it because it had 750 pieces but it took a couple of days to finish because it had a lot of grey/blue/light pink overcast sky and a large, dark green, grassy area along the bottom edge with numerous tiny, blue flowers of various shades and hues. It was also really fuzzy which made it tougher figuring out what piece went where. The pieces weren't distinctive, either.
550 piece City Scape, Cartoon Capers or Made In America takes less than a day to assemble and fit on puzzle trays (a convenient way to assemble and store a puzzle instead of taking up a table) which means I go through them quickly and can't afford to buy them as fast as a I finish them because they are ten bucks each, roughly.
The 750 piece puzzle is my favorite but it barely fits on the puzzle tray.
I bought some of my puzzles at Wal Mart (has the worst selection of all) and three of them at Toys R Us but the Internet has a much better selection if you go through them quickly.

I go through phases where I do nothing but jigsaw puzzles. I tend to buy those mosaic puzzles when I am on puzzle mode. I am lucky enough to have two functional dining room tables so that I can occupy one for a week or two and no one is put out by it.

I like puzzles because I am brilliant at them. Not exactly a useful skill "in the great scheme of things" but eh...

Fast fun, I always thought. But I got banned from jigsaw puzzles among some people I knew because I was "too good". Now that I have cats, I use jigsaw puzzles on my computer. I even programmed a few simple ones and have fun assembling them.

Note: Sometimes when WP is slow, I assemble a small puzzle in another window on my monitor.

LOVE THEM! My boyfriend's family was actually going to work on setting me up a special table/area in my house to do them during my "me" time. I'm still looking forward to it. Only reason they haven't so far is because I don't think I throw off the vibes that this is really something I'm excited about, so they are in no rush, lol.

I do them online at msnbc.com in the entertainment section. They are the only ones online I've found that leave you space to move the pieces around. You can re cut the puzzle for more pieces etc. I try not to look at the picture first and just work from chaos to order. It is relaxing. I think I'll do one now.