Have you got the patience for puzzles?
SWNS / Karen Kavett
SWNS / Karen Kavett
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00:00 I'm never doing this puzzle ever again.
00:05 The final event of the National Jigsaw Puzzle Championships was individual, so whatever
00:12 happens, it's all on me.
00:15 And I loved this puzzle.
00:17 I love colorful illustrations, and I also think I'm a better puzzler alone than with
00:24 a team.
00:25 Um, except for when I knock my entire puzzle edge off of the table and onto the floor.
00:32 But it's okay, I put it back together and then raced my way through the rest of the
00:37 puzzle.
00:38 I had no idea in the moment, but in the end it was just down to Yvonne and me.
00:46 And Yvonne won.
00:48 When she won, I literally had 11 pieces left.
00:51 But I got second place.
00:55 Second place out of 99 puzzlers.
00:58 This was so exciting and so validating.
01:03 After all of the many, many hours I have spent doing puzzles, it all led to this.
01:10 Let's do a one minute tour of my puzzle studio.
01:29 In this wardrobe are all of my vintage puzzles.
01:32 So puzzles I haven't done, puzzles that had cash prizes, food themed puzzles, puzzles
01:39 from the 30s, and puzzles I've already done on YouTube.
01:43 And then this shelf is puzzles that I have not done yet.
01:46 So the top two shelves are puzzles I plan to show in a video one day, and then these
01:51 are puzzles I'm just going to do for fun.
01:53 Out here in the hallway I have my giant puzzle boards.
01:57 So this was the one for the 6,000 piece puzzle, and then that one is for the 9,000 piece puzzle.
02:02 Also all of my foam boards in all different colors.
02:06 And then out here in the living room are three giant boxes of puzzles that I plan to give
02:10 away.
02:11 This is one of the hardest puzzles I've ever done.
02:16 This is the Jigsaw Puzzle Jigsaw Puzzle, released in 1977.
02:22 And the design is so weird.
02:25 Like who thought of this?
02:26 Why is it brown?
02:27 Why is there so much empty space?
02:28 So doing the text took me about two hours.
02:34 These piece shapes are so crazy, nothing goes where you think it's going to go.
02:39 I honestly almost didn't even finish this one, but I pushed through and it took me ten
02:46 hours in total.
02:48 Oh my god, even with the last two pieces I still don't know how to go in.
02:53 There we go, alright, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
02:57 I can't believe I finished that.
03:02 I can safely say that I'm never doing this puzzle ever again.
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