This November, I have thrown myself into putting together one of the new puzzles with 1000 pieces from handmadeliving. It's called Jorden and it's probably not the world's easiest, but on the other hand it's probably the coolest puzzle I've seen in a long time. So how do you approach such a puzzle with a huge black room and a globe in the middle?
Yes, well, I started by sorting the pieces. I have made several piles. The biggest pile is definitely the room with the little white stars. It is the black area in the subject outside the ground. Jet black with twinkling stars on it. There are all the edge pieces and the 4 corner pieces and I have seen the corner pieces. At least now I know where they are! They lie down in the lid and wait to be laid.
Afterwards I made an important pile, I think, with the edge pieces for the Earth itself. These are not real edge pieces in the classic puzzle sense. Rather, they are pieces where I can see both the room AND some of the ground. The earth is well delineated on the puzzle motif.
My strategy is to start by gathering the edge of the ground so I have some sort of edge there. Then the ground must be filled with pieces from the 3 other piles which are blue, which must be the sea, white which must be clouds and brown which are North Africa and the Middle East. In reality, the Earth is not very green when you look at this picture. Perhaps it is the case that we can only really see the true picture when we see it a bit from a distance, and we must say that we do that with the picture of the Earth, which is the subject of this puzzle. The picture belongs to Nasa, it was taken in 1972 far out in space, and it's wildly impressive, I think. It's probably one of the coolest puzzles I've posted.
Now I want to go back to my giant puzzle and add some more pieces. You can buy the Earth puzzle HERE if you want to put it together yourself.
