It’s A Jungle Out There!

I did this back in the early to mid 90s.  It struck me one day that all jigsaws the same size from the same manufacturer were probably cut using the same machine.  So they were all identical puzzles but with different pictures on them.  And that meant that you could mix the pieces.

I went out and bought three 1000-piece puzzles.  One was a New York skyline reflected in the water, daytime on one side of the water, nighttime on the other.  One was something called Mysterious India, with jungle, tigers, old buildings and a big face.  The third one was a car.  The original plan was to mix up the pieces checkerboard style in three different pairs (AB, BC, AC, yeah?) but I found that to be too tricky.  It was pushing too far the assumption that the jigsaws were identically cut, and the pieces wouldn’t quite fit together.

So instead, I mixed two jigsaws together in big chunks rather than in little pieces.  And I was very pleased with the result.  Everything blends together really well.

This one is framed and sits on the wall at home.