Power through? To what end? If it had been a higher quality puzzle with more unique pieces, yes. But the way that puzzle was built, maybe a team of people working together building rows could have done it as they could encourage each other.
Well, you started with an expectation that you wouldn't complete it, so right out of the gate, we knew you wouldn't do it. I thought maybe you'd just go through it, even if each didn't fit perfectly - half the battle is attitude, lol. But you were honest about how you felt and that was all that mattered. In the end, if you dont enjoy it, then why do it? So I am glad you stopped the impossible!
I wished that you had placed the first piece that fit and moved on. It seemed like this puzzle had a large number of solutions (and not just one). However, I am perfectly fine that you quit.
This puzzle seems like a serious missed opportunity for a good whimsy-cut puzzle with pieces shaped like ketchup bottles, tomatoes, apples, hearts, crosses, all manner of red things. It would have been a wonderful keepsake and probably a collectible. Instead, they really blew it by making it unimaginative, cheap, and impossible. I've only recently gotten into jigsaw puzzles, the whimsy-cut wooden ones with 400+ pieces ... and I'm disappointed that the only one I've given up on was the Clemens Habicht color gradient globe. I have an extremely low tolerance for sorting before I start in, and that puzzle demands a full sort. Also, half of it is green and blue, my least favorite colors. It seemed like a perfect match for me, and I can do challenging puzzles well. But there was no artwork, no design, nothing on it but false color matches that seemed "close enough" but still too far apart for me. (I have really, really good color vision, so even adjacent pieces seemed like they were a mile apart to me in hue.) If CH put out a spherical globe puzzle with actual artwork screened onto it, I would be in absolute heaven. I love the feel of the plastic pieces, I love how neatly they snap together, and I otherwise adore full-on 3D puzzles like the Bepuzzled ones (although all but one have way too few pieces to satisfy me). But that color gradient globe invariably ended up with me dumping the pieces out on my tablecloth, feeling like I was undergoing Chinese water torture for ten minutes, and then I put them right back into the box. I should have spent the money on a good Liberty or Nautilus wooden puzzle. TL;DR -- Serious missed opportunity by Heinz for a whimsy-cut puzzle, and I crap out on the CH color globe every single time because it has no design on it.
I wish they had made it fun like that! Maybe even had the whole puzzle shaped like a ketchup bottle, or some puzzle pieces in the middle that make a ketchup bottle shape together!
The puzzle was just quickly/cheaply made. Im sure those other people on instagram had every other piece in the wrong spot as well. I mean come on, if Karen isn't able to do it correctly, no one is 😅
I was just thinking that with how poorly made this is, you could probably solve it with (literally) brute force - the pieces are so similar that you can just take the first piece that has roughly the right shape, force it in there, then move on to the next one. (basically doing it wrong on purpose) Horrible solution for a horribly designed puzzle.
Agreed, some of those instagram photos have puzzles that were obviously put together wrong, not lying flat when on a clearly flat surface. I think the fact that Karen left this one in the Impossible pile just shows that she has better foresight and judgment skills when it comes to puzzles!
As a blind person who happens to be a puzzle enthusiast, your struggles in this video brought me so much joy. Because I am blind, all pieces of every puzzle always look the same to me. All the same color all the time. Finally I’m not alone and struggling! The strategies that you used to put this puzzle together is exactly how I put all of my puzzles together. I just try pieces over and over and over again until pieces fit together and then sometimes I have to rearrange them. I am sorry though that you struggled so much and it was very frustrating for you. Don’t forget that you are an amazing puzzler! Keep up the great work!
@@aaliyah.s1216 1. There's this thing called listening. 2. The microphone feature. Also, there's special options on phones to do that. 3. Touch, maybe?
@@aaliyah.s1216 they… they just explained how they do puzzles… As well as what @Noah Simon said, they may also watch this video with people who can describe what is happening on screen. But Karen does explain what is happening a lot in her videos herself too
When an expert puzzler says your puzzle sucks, it’s maybe time for a quality upgrade especially for an impossible solid color puzzle. I wouldn’t even consider the puzzle at all 😭
You have high standards about how the puzzle should fit together. I’m not sure all the people that finished it set the same standard. I would have given up sooner.
I honestly dont think the people who finished the puzzle took the time to make sure it perfectly fits. If a puzzle can be put together without pieces fitting exactly right, then i dont think it requires such intense scruntiny and you can probably just plonk any piece that kinda fits and finish it relatively quickly. Just consider the ill fitting pieces a manufacturing error.
I can believe but am still infuriated that it probs took you .2 seconds to think of an idea that is clearly superior and shows so clearly JUST HOW LITTLE THEY CARED. It hurts my man, it hurts but props to you 🙌
@@ThirrinDiamond a photo of all 57 different varieties, including the colored versions they used to have(purple and green) would have been much better as well! It could double as a advertisement for their own products. (As you're putting it together: "I didn't know they had that kind of ketchup! I'll have to try that.")
@@ThirrinDiamond I envision them calling up a puzzle manufacturer and saying to make a puzzle that matches their ketchup color, and that was the whole conversation.
I love how she says she is not spending more than a day on the puzzle... Versus me.... I spent 2 months on a puzzle (500 pieces) and its still not finished!!!! (its the same black and white puzzle that i told you in the comment you liked a while ago 🤍🖤)
I've totally given up on puzzles that were just impossible for me to do. I'm almost 40 and yeah, if I'm not enjoying the puzzling, then I'd rather be doing something I enjoy with my time! Good on you for making that decision!
I would have given up, too! My pet peeve is when pieces aren't unique enough/bad puzzle cut, but a solid color, too? Impossible! I have only given up on one, with a bad puzzle cut. My dad once was determined to do one where multiple pieces seemed to match, and when it was all done, he flipped it over and numbered the pieces on the back 😂. Is that cheating? 🤔
Imagine if they made other condiments as puzzles, like a solid yellow mustard puzzle or a solid white mayonnaise puzzle 😂😂 (but better quality with MORE VARIATIONS IN CUT AND CONNECTORS)
I’m glad you bailed. I ALWAYS refuse to do that even though I feel completely fed up with some puzzles and you have actually made me decide that yes I can stop a puzzle if it is no longer fun. Feels better. Thanks for a very enjoyable video.
I’m not throwing shade but on all of those finished ones you could see some pieces raised like they didn’t fit well. We could all do that if we didn’t care if it fit or not!
Kudos to you for even attempting this impossible puzzle AND not feeling bad for giving up. There are SO many great images, manufacturers and better quality puzzles out there so go with one of those for your next try. 👍🏻
You’re such a perfectionist😭 I’m sure those other people were just fitting together the wrong pieces. If you didn’t care about the perfection you could’ve done it too haha. Been binge watching your channel btw.
Hello Karen! I found your channel today and your personality and genuine joy you have about puzzles is so amazing! Subscribed immediately and am now binge watching your videos and they're making my day so much brighter ❤
The 57 refers to the # of spices in their steak sauce, Heinz 57. It’s possible there aren’t that many spices in the recipe, but they don’t claim to have 57 kinds of ketchup. Your knowledge of and enthusiasm for puzzles is impressive. 😁
I ran into a similar situation when attempting my one puzzle when I got back into puzzling earlier this year. It's the movie poster for Jaws. While not all of the pieces are the same, the edges are all solid black and often times I would find several pieces that would appear to fit together. Also, the sky (outside of the title) was 81 pure white pieces that were also all cut very similarly. I'd get a section of the sky together and then run out of pieces that would fit the next space. While the puzzle isn't probably impossible, it got so frustrating that I had to give up on it. I did box it back up with the edges/borders and title/word pieces already separated, but I just needed to move on to some of the other puzzles that I got.
Karen - you are absolutely correct to stop doing this puzzle. I have worked on tough puzzles but there was always some satisfaction in finding pieces and the joy of working on the puzzle. This puzzle appears to have no joy at all so you make an impossible but correct decision. I have always preferred Hunt's Ketchup anyway :)
You made the right decision because you are a smart cookie. I have finished puzzles like this that I'm ashamed of doing after the fact but never again!
I bought that puzzle a few weeks ago when I saw you had it, just for the novelty of it. I haven't even opened it and won't rush to after seeing it's basically a hot mess and impossible to solve. I certainly don't blame you for quitting!
This video is so reassuring. One of the puzzles I bought during quarantine was so pretty but i couldn't finish. Half of it was basically all sky. It was hard and not fun. I've felt guilty for two years. I'm new to puzzles and didn't realize that we just weren't right for each other, that puzzle and I. And that's fine.
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching you torture yourself for us. I remember the first book I didn't finish - even when 8 hated them, I felt like I had to finish. Then I tried to read "Stranger In A Strange Land" and I was just done. I was like, I could actually be enjoying my life. So,that's all to say, I totally support your choice! I love you and your channel - I'm so glad I found it. I'd love to see you do a video of you doing your favorite puzzle!
Impossible, indeed! It's a good thing you quit for your sanity, plus that puzzle is from the depths of hell. As to your question, yes I've given up on a couple, but it doesn't mean I'm done with them. I put them back, assembled in their boxes so I can try them another day.
I am so impressed that you had the self-confidence to say that this was a poorly made puzzle that required the assembler to become an automaton in order to complete it. Surely you could have completed this seemingly impossible puzzle, but why since the activity would have been filled with boredom and mindlessness? Your goal was to review the puzzle and you did, and I’m so glad you stopped once you knew enough to give us a truthful review.
I'm subscribed to you but this was the first video that showed up on my home page in awhile (since January I think; yay yt). I didn't do a single puzzle during those many months, but since seeing this video last week, I've ended up doing 3 550 piece (with a 1000 piece in progress now) and bought 10 more puzzles. I hope this comment winds up being viewable for you (yt never likes to show what I write). Your videos are enjoyable and got me back in a puzzle mood. Thank you
Karen, I've never given up on a puzzle. However, I've never faced one as diabolical as that Heinz puzzle was designed! Thanks for attempting it and warning your followers. You have earned the right to show you frustration and I appreciate it. Keep smiling and sharing! [impossible]
Karen. I hadn’t worked on a serious jigsaw puzzle since my first year of college over 40 years ago. Because of you, I have purchased six jigsaw puzzles that I liked from your channel. I just did the first one. I did the silver Krypt. It was so much fun because there was a decent amount of variation. My friends thought I was crazy, but the interior circle on the Krypt was so rewarding. I agree with you that this puzzle is just cheap quality and terrible design. Keep up the awesome work. FYI, the Krypt was easier when I copied the key sheet and marked pieces off with pink highlighter.
A month ago I gave up on a 1000 piece puzzle (the picture called "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Beautiful picture, but except for the girl, the background was solid black and about half of the puzzle. The problem is that (except for the edge) EVERY piece was exactly the same basic shape (2 knobs and 2 openings), with very slight size differences. I got the picture completed, and the background begun, when I realized that my time was not worth it. You're welcome to the puzzle if you want it!
Thank you. Now I don't feel so bad about not finishing an almost all black puzzle. My issue was that multiple pieces could fit in one place. I felt it was IMPOSSIBLE to know if the fit was correct. However, I bagged up the color pieces with the thought that I would return to that puzzle at a later date. Now I don't feel so bad. Thanks 😊
I so understand your decision. Impossible was my attempt to do a 1000 piece ghost crab on a beach. It had the crab, a bit of sand and about 800 pieces of different shades of white. I gave up trying every single piece. Enjoying your channel very much. Greetings from 🇩🇪
I really really really like your idea how to do this puzzle and it's not cheating at all because you have only your wits to figure out how to get these pieces back together and whatever method you choose to do it that's called being smart
I don't think I have ever actually given up on a puzzle before. But I try not to buy puzzles that don't seem like fun. And that one looks like it is torture and "impossible" to finish
I almost gave up on a Ravensburger puzzle called “ kaleidoscope”. However I decided to just work on it a little each day, while simultaneously doing another puzzle so I didn’t get too frustrated. I have to say I really felt like I accomplished something when I was done. I don’t blame you for not doing the Heinz completely red puzzle. Impossible.
The fact it's completely red isn't the issue. She's put together solid color puzzles before and was fine with them. The issue is that the lack of unique cuts makes it a puzzle that's not even worth doing, because putting a piece in doesn't give you any sense of accomplishment, and there's no "correct" way to do it even.
I look forward to her uploads all the time! Love her personality. I’ve given up puzzles before but when I have it’s so relieving. When they aren’t fun and become too stressful I must put it away! “Impossible”
Such a smart smart girl. I like your thought process, when something's not working you move on and move forward, that puzzle was just meant to be a time-waster, life is too short, you made the perfect decision.
Imagine if the makers of Heinz said, "Whoops, we forgot to add an extra 0 to that puzzle", and the puzzle was 5,700 pieces instead. That would be pure torture/punishment
I literally always hated puzzling but ive been your binging your videos and suddenly felt the need to try it out myself! so I look for a puzzle my roommate and i strated in march but never finisched and now im sitting here watching your videos and trying to solve this! lets see how it goes
Impossible! I think many of your viewers just like your style of content, your personality, your smile and enjoy hearing your perspective, regardless of whether or not you finish the puzzle.
This actually did seem truly impossible! I can’t believe you even tried as much as you did. There was a certain point where I wondered if you were laughing or crying. I love watching you complete puzzles but I will never enjoy seeing you get this frustrated. I hope you found something much more fulfilling to do on this filming day to cheer yourself up. Can’t wait to watch more of your videos! ❤️❤️❤️
I 100% don’t blame you for not finishing this impossible monstrosity. I have a puzzle that’s been on my table for a couple of weeks now that I might give up on. My mom got it for me for my birthday, and it’s made based on a photo of my cats. I really want to do it to have the completed photo. But it’s really hard because my cats are both black so it’s a lot of one color, and also the pieces are very loose fitting.
Yes I have! It also had a puzzle with a large section of solid color that felt Impossible. I decided to move on for the same reason even after sorting by shape - I had better things to do with my time! I fully support your decision haha!
Impossible: I've never given up on a puzzle. I literally spent 10 days working on a puzzle; it was my first ever 1000 piece puzzle. I want that Heinz puzzle!!! 😍
As far as I could tell, there was juuust enough variation to differentiate each piece, but it could probably be completed imperfectly and satisfy most people who aren't perfectionists.
As a kid I got a 1000 piece puzzle of a tiger, because they are my favorite animals, but the issue with that puzzle was that the image was glittering/reflecting and everything except for the tiger was snow, so all pieces changed color depending on the light and you had no image to look after. On top of that every piece connected to every other piece and it really was impossible to do (at least for me as a kid). Unfortunately my mom threw it away, so I could not find out if grown up me could have done it and because of my memory I will not pay money for this puzzle just to try it. Thanks for you videos, I really enjoy watching them ❤
I do not blame you at all for deciding to quit, it was a really stupid puzzle. 18:00 The only time I gave up on a puzzle was a 1000 piece puzzle with 2 colours and the pieces were thin and cheap quality. Code Word: Inpossible
I have given up on an impossible puzzle before. I was so relieved when I let myself do that. I wasn’t enjoying it. I had come to hate it. Good for you! I really like the shops of those cuts, but with no picture and poor quality construction, I’d give up before even starting.
I've never given up on a puzzle but I agree with you this one is impossible. This is the only one I saw you give up on, I give you credit for even trying it.
Ah I wish I could have gotten my hands on this one. I'm the kind of puzzler that doesn't care how long it takes, I have infinite patience when it comes to puzzles and like to do them just to finish them, no matter how long it takes. So a puzzle this difficult would actually be a super fun project for me
I once worked on an Elvis puzzle that was entirely grey scale. It was HORRIBLE! I worked on it for 3 days before packing it back up....it was literally making me angry. It was the total opposite of what I should have been feeling...there was no joy at all! It wasn't worth it!
Karen, you are so awesome I just had to stop the video 4 minutes and 40 seconds into it just to tell you that because I just love your energy I love your smile I love how you do your puzzles and you're so entertaining that's all I wanted to say.
I know of an even worse offender. I have a mini puzzle that’s solid white, but it is entirely the standard piece shape. My dad bought it for me for Christmas, erroneously thinking that I would enjoy it. I got about as far into it as you did this one.
Wow, that product design is some hot dog toffee. Like it could have been so fun and pretty, but who thought that it was a good idea to make the pieces so identical?
I recently did a similarly impossible puzzle like that. It was a moose head. It took me three weeks. There were so many pieces that seemed to fit but weren't just *quite* right. I eventually became an expert at taking the connecting pieces and turning them over and holding them up to the light. If I saw light coming through, I knew it was wrong. It usually was. It wasn't fun, although when it was finally completed, there was a greater sense of satisfaction than I'm used to.
Let me tell you that life is absolutely too short to do something you don’t enjoy (& isn’t necessary). Haven’t yet given up on a puzzle but I’m sure it is coming. - Impossible 🧩
I have put a puzzle 'on hold' : the colors were all blending together so much after looking at it for so long (a picture of Josephine Wall). It was IMPOSSIBLE to see. So it is waiting, to be finished later. I think it is brave to even start, I would not have opened the box.
"Impossible" / although I am with you, I would have given up on this one. However, if the quality was better I could see not giving up and trudging on.
We did an Impossible puzzle once. We finally DID complete it. It was at our local mall, but bought by one of my friends. Every day we'd go and make good progress on it, and every night, one of the workers at the coffee stand there would tear it apart again. So we went one morning, just as the mall opened and stayed until we finished it. And we took it with us because our friend said we could have it. But we gave it to another friend to do. Emily (my daughter) and I didn't ever want to see it again! But it's still on sale anywhere jigsaw puzzles are sold.
I gave up on one puzzle many years ago. It was a large Gone with the Wind puzzle. I didn’t realize it wouldn’t fit on my table so I just quit! It wasn’t “impossible” tho! I had a few good laughs with you today.
i’ve only given up on two puzzles! the first one was one of those landscape puzzles where 2/3 of the picture was a solid blue sky and the rest was grass with a tiny house in the middle. the second one was a 2000-piece puzzle i started when my cat was a kitten. he kept stealing pieces and ran all over the puzzle and messed up the pieces that i had sorted, so after a couple of hours of extreme frustrationi just packed it all up and threw the box in the back of my closet. it’s still there almost 2 years later haha!
Heinz could have done what some puzzle companies have done, that is, put sheet like lettering across the back of all the pieces. This allows for the puzzler to sort out pieces into their own quadrants (A to say F). That's three quadrants on the bottom and three on top, for example. This also allows for the puzzler to know if the pieces are really meant to be together. If two pieces, let say, share the letter A and part of the letter A is on one piece and part of the letter A is on the other piece, then when they come together they form a perfect A. Grant it, it's not fun having to constantly flip the couple or few pieces over to see if they belong together. This also helps those who are perfectionist to be able to check their work during or at the end of the puzzle. As for all those who have completed the Heinz puzzle, I do wonder how many of them might still have it wrong vs might have it right. Lastly, and as you mentioned, if the puzzle is using very similar or same colored pieces then changing the shapes of the puzzle pieces makes it a tad more doable/enjoyable (if that's your thing). Impossible, you say, maybe.
Thank you for finally tackling it, I’ve being asking for This video since day one. Too bad it was such an impossible endevour, i probably would have quit before you did. I have only quit a puzzle once, it was a Ravensburger all grey Paris scene with only a red umbrella on it, and the rest was just this universe of sad gray pieces. I gave it away to my nephew and he surprised me by actually putting all together during this quarantine.
What do you all think? Should I have powered through, or do you understand why I decided to quit?
You lasted much longer than I would have done!
I think you should have quit. That puzzle is straight from hell.
Power through? To what end?
If it had been a higher quality puzzle with more unique pieces, yes.
But the way that puzzle was built, maybe a team of people working together building rows could have done it as they could encourage each other.
Well, you started with an expectation that you wouldn't complete it, so right out of the gate, we knew you wouldn't do it. I thought maybe you'd just go through it, even if each didn't fit perfectly - half the battle is attitude, lol. But you were honest about how you felt and that was all that mattered. In the end, if you dont enjoy it, then why do it? So I am glad you stopped the impossible!
I wished that you had placed the first piece that fit and moved on. It seemed like this puzzle had a large number of solutions (and not just one). However, I am perfectly fine that you quit.
"I'm almost 30, I'm done spending my time on things that I don't enjoy, that I don't have to do."
girl, that is so relatable. 😅
So true
So true
Karen is almost 30? I thought she was almost 20.
As someone who is 30, this has become my motto. Life is too short to waste on things you don't enjoy that you don't have to do.
This puzzle seems like a serious missed opportunity for a good whimsy-cut puzzle with pieces shaped like ketchup bottles, tomatoes, apples, hearts, crosses, all manner of red things. It would have been a wonderful keepsake and probably a collectible. Instead, they really blew it by making it unimaginative, cheap, and impossible.
I've only recently gotten into jigsaw puzzles, the whimsy-cut wooden ones with 400+ pieces ... and I'm disappointed that the only one I've given up on was the Clemens Habicht color gradient globe. I have an extremely low tolerance for sorting before I start in, and that puzzle demands a full sort. Also, half of it is green and blue, my least favorite colors. It seemed like a perfect match for me, and I can do challenging puzzles well. But there was no artwork, no design, nothing on it but false color matches that seemed "close enough" but still too far apart for me. (I have really, really good color vision, so even adjacent pieces seemed like they were a mile apart to me in hue.)
If CH put out a spherical globe puzzle with actual artwork screened onto it, I would be in absolute heaven. I love the feel of the plastic pieces, I love how neatly they snap together, and I otherwise adore full-on 3D puzzles like the Bepuzzled ones (although all but one have way too few pieces to satisfy me). But that color gradient globe invariably ended up with me dumping the pieces out on my tablecloth, feeling like I was undergoing Chinese water torture for ten minutes, and then I put them right back into the box. I should have spent the money on a good Liberty or Nautilus wooden puzzle.
TL;DR -- Serious missed opportunity by Heinz for a whimsy-cut puzzle, and I crap out on the CH color globe every single time because it has no design on it.
J Cortese yes, that would’ve been way cooler
J Cortese or even
a collage of foods we put ketchup on
Totally agree. They could have partnered with Ravensburger or another real puzzle company to ensure good quality.
agreed!!
I wish they had made it fun like that! Maybe even had the whole puzzle shaped like a ketchup bottle, or some puzzle pieces in the middle that make a ketchup bottle shape together!
You are the most wholesome Karen ever.
haha, I'll take it 😂
Not the "can i speak to your manager" karen. Just the "please let me finish this puzzle" karen
I agree!
Lol she's too logical to be a karen
She's the only Karen I trust
The puzzle was just quickly/cheaply made. Im sure those other people on instagram had every other piece in the wrong spot as well.
I mean come on, if Karen isn't able to do it correctly, no one is 😅
I was just thinking that with how poorly made this is, you could probably solve it with (literally) brute force - the pieces are so similar that you can just take the first piece that has roughly the right shape, force it in there, then move on to the next one. (basically doing it wrong on purpose)
Horrible solution for a horribly designed puzzle.
@AwesomeVidz you have said exactly what I was about to say already. Some 7 months ago! 👌
Code word should have been “mustard” 😂😂 good job Hun
Agreed, some of those instagram photos have puzzles that were obviously put together wrong, not lying flat when on a clearly flat surface. I think the fact that Karen left this one in the Impossible pile just shows that she has better foresight and judgment skills when it comes to puzzles!
I did it in 5 hours with my twin sister because we're both ketchup people...
As a blind person who happens to be a puzzle enthusiast, your struggles in this video brought me so much joy. Because I am blind, all pieces of every puzzle always look the same to me. All the same color all the time. Finally I’m not alone and struggling! The strategies that you used to put this puzzle together is exactly how I put all of my puzzles together. I just try pieces over and over and over again until pieces fit together and then sometimes I have to rearrange them. I am sorry though that you struggled so much and it was very frustrating for you. Don’t forget that you are an amazing puzzler! Keep up the great work!
If your blind how did u watch the video a type?
And how do u do puzzles?
@@aaliyah.s1216 1. There's this thing called listening. 2. The microphone feature. Also, there's special options on phones to do that. 3. Touch, maybe?
@@aaliyah.s1216 they… they just explained how they do puzzles…
As well as what @Noah Simon said, they may also watch this video with people who can describe what is happening on screen. But Karen does explain what is happening a lot in her videos herself too
How do you do puzzles if you're blind??
When an expert puzzler says your puzzle sucks, it’s maybe time for a quality upgrade especially for an impossible solid color puzzle. I wouldn’t even consider the puzzle at all 😭
They're a ketchup company- the puzzle was a small promotion. Why would they bother?
@@lepotatopotato9418 @JosefinaH You both make sense, even though you both said almost the opposite. =O
So...basically Heinz should not give up their day job!!
So true... still can't knock their ketchup
You have high standards about how the puzzle should fit together. I’m not sure all the people that finished it set the same standard. I would have given up sooner.
I honestly dont think the people who finished the puzzle took the time to make sure it perfectly fits. If a puzzle can be put together without pieces fitting exactly right, then i dont think it requires such intense scruntiny and you can probably just plonk any piece that kinda fits and finish it relatively quickly. Just consider the ill fitting pieces a manufacturing error.
They should've done a close up photo of ketchup spread out on a surface
Then there would be light reflections and swoopy shapes🙃
I can believe but am still infuriated that it probs took you .2 seconds to think of an idea that is clearly superior and shows so clearly JUST HOW LITTLE THEY CARED. It hurts my man, it hurts but props to you 🙌
@@ThirrinDiamond a photo of all 57 different varieties, including the colored versions they used to have(purple and green) would have been much better as well! It could double as a advertisement for their own products. (As you're putting it together: "I didn't know they had that kind of ketchup! I'll have to try that.")
@@GirlGamer867 genius!
@@ThirrinDiamond thanks!
@@ThirrinDiamond I envision them calling up a puzzle manufacturer and saying to make a puzzle that matches their ketchup color, and that was the whole conversation.
The best quality of this puzzle is the the reusable bag it came in!
Eh, not really. Even reusable plastics are harmful to the environment when they degrade
i don't blame you for giving up. I took one look at that and my first thought was she's not gonna finish. and yes i have given up on a puzzle before
I love how she says she is not spending more than a day on the puzzle... Versus me.... I spent 2 months on a puzzle (500 pieces) and its still not finished!!!! (its the same black and white puzzle that i told you in the comment you liked a while ago 🤍🖤)
“Whoever made this is literally Satan” I laughed SO HARD!
True sameee😂
Same. I was like…wow, Karen, harsh. Ha ha poor Karen Puzzles
I really expected them to use interesting pieces at the very least. That whole puzzle is just a big yikes.
I've totally given up on puzzles that were just impossible for me to do. I'm almost 40 and yeah, if I'm not enjoying the puzzling, then I'd rather be doing something I enjoy with my time! Good on you for making that decision!
my uncle is colorblind and he can’t see red so he usually does puzzles flipped. (cardboard side up) so this would definitely be one for him
Or maybe just buy him the crypt puzzles lmao. This puzzle still sucks so bad.
Even if he was colour blind, it still wouldn’t make sense at all to do puzzles flip side up.. it’s not like he can’t see the picture at all..
@@bakchormeeman7864 to be completely honest i have know other reasoning as to why he does this besides what i said in the original comment lol
@@ssalvulcano ok.. which is?
@@bakchormeeman7864 idk. it was a couple years ago he told me. and that was all he said
I would have given up, too! My pet peeve is when pieces aren't unique enough/bad puzzle cut, but a solid color, too? Impossible! I have only given up on one, with a bad puzzle cut. My dad once was determined to do one where multiple pieces seemed to match, and when it was all done, he flipped it over and numbered the pieces on the back 😂. Is that cheating? 🤔
Essentially they didn’t know what they were doing, so they accidentally created the goddamn devil.
All of human history in one sentence lmao
@@katvaughn6201 that’s way too accurate thank you
Imagine if they made other condiments as puzzles, like a solid yellow mustard puzzle or a solid white mayonnaise puzzle 😂😂 (but better quality with MORE VARIATIONS IN CUT AND CONNECTORS)
Conversely, they’re all the same cut, so you (theoretically) could mix and match
@@samjensen392 Lol we can have a ketchup-mayo puzzle 😂😂
The white could drive someone mad. Just like the white torture room. I’d probably rather be punched in the face.
@@NoneofyourBusiness-hy5ln that's not how it works, it's not like staring at 1 white thing could make you go crazy.
I’m glad you bailed. I ALWAYS refuse to do that even though I feel completely fed up with some puzzles and you have actually made me decide that yes I can stop a puzzle if it is no longer fun. Feels better. Thanks for a very enjoyable video.
I’m not throwing shade but on all of those finished ones you could see some pieces raised like they didn’t fit well. We could all do that if we didn’t care if it fit or not!
Get it... shade.. wow im extremely stupid but i noticed and wanted to point it out 👍
@@lizaelenaaa you can see a slight color variation too, like certain pieces are in the wrong spot
@@juliemcgray264 yeah i was saying my comment more as like a pun but yeah
Kudos to you for even attempting this impossible puzzle AND not feeling bad for giving up. There are SO many great images, manufacturers and better quality puzzles out there so go with one of those for your next try.
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I think I’d be sick of this crazy puzzle after about 15 seconds. Well done Karen!
Life is too short to waste time on an impossible puzzle. I hope that your next puzzle is one that you enjoy!
You’re such a perfectionist😭 I’m sure those other people were just fitting together the wrong pieces. If you didn’t care about the perfection you could’ve done it too haha.
Been binge watching your channel btw.
Hello Karen! I found your channel today and your personality and genuine joy you have about puzzles is so amazing! Subscribed immediately and am now binge watching your videos and they're making my day so much brighter ❤
The 57 refers to the # of spices in their steak sauce, Heinz 57. It’s possible there aren’t that many spices in the recipe, but they don’t claim to have 57 kinds of ketchup. Your knowledge of and enthusiasm for puzzles is impressive. 😁
Is that why it's 570 pieces? 😁
Jigsaw puzzles should be fun and challenging-not maddeningly frustrating!! I don’t blame you for abandoning it!!! Good job!!!!!!! 😀😀‼️
I ran into a similar situation when attempting my one puzzle when I got back into puzzling earlier this year. It's the movie poster for Jaws. While not all of the pieces are the same, the edges are all solid black and often times I would find several pieces that would appear to fit together. Also, the sky (outside of the title) was 81 pure white pieces that were also all cut very similarly. I'd get a section of the sky together and then run out of pieces that would fit the next space. While the puzzle isn't probably impossible, it got so frustrating that I had to give up on it. I did box it back up with the edges/borders and title/word pieces already separated, but I just needed to move on to some of the other puzzles that I got.
Karen - you are absolutely correct to stop doing this puzzle. I have worked on tough puzzles but there was always some satisfaction in finding pieces and the joy of working on the puzzle. This puzzle appears to have no joy at all so you make an impossible but correct decision. I have always preferred Hunt's Ketchup anyway :)
You made the right decision because you are a smart cookie. I have finished puzzles like this that I'm ashamed of doing after the fact but never again!
I bought that puzzle a few weeks ago when I saw you had it, just for the novelty of it. I haven't even opened it and won't rush to after seeing it's basically a hot mess and impossible to solve. I certainly don't blame you for quitting!
This video is so reassuring. One of the puzzles I bought during quarantine was so pretty but i couldn't finish. Half of it was basically all sky. It was hard and not fun. I've felt guilty for two years. I'm new to puzzles and didn't realize that we just weren't right for each other, that puzzle and I. And that's fine.
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching you torture yourself for us. I remember the first book I didn't finish - even when 8 hated them, I felt like I had to finish. Then I tried to read "Stranger In A Strange Land" and I was just done. I was like, I could actually be enjoying my life. So,that's all to say, I totally support your choice! I love you and your channel - I'm so glad I found it.
I'd love to see you do a video of you doing your favorite puzzle!
You are a great inspiration...I am 28 and you have made me start jigsaw puzzles..
I have started with 100 piece puzzles and hope to reach 1000 soon!!!
Impossible, indeed! It's a good thing you quit for your sanity, plus that puzzle is from the depths of hell.
As to your question, yes I've given up on a couple, but it doesn't mean I'm done with them. I put them back, assembled in their boxes so I can try them another day.
I am so impressed that you had the self-confidence to say that this was a poorly made puzzle that required the assembler to become an automaton in order to complete it. Surely you could have completed this seemingly impossible puzzle, but why since the activity would have been filled with boredom and mindlessness? Your goal was to review the puzzle and you did, and I’m so glad you stopped once you knew enough to give us a truthful review.
Karen: Who ever did this is Satan
Me: Yeah the puzzle is red
Haha I was thinking the same thing. 😆
I'm subscribed to you but this was the first video that showed up on my home page in awhile (since January I think; yay yt).
I didn't do a single puzzle during those many months, but since seeing this video last week, I've ended up doing 3 550 piece (with a 1000 piece in progress now) and bought 10 more puzzles.
I hope this comment winds up being viewable for you (yt never likes to show what I write). Your videos are enjoyable and got me back in a puzzle mood. Thank you
I’m glad you stopped working on that impossible puzzle! I agree with others that Heinz really missed an opportunity to go with a unique-shape puzzle.
Karen, I've never given up on a puzzle. However, I've never faced one as diabolical as that Heinz puzzle was designed! Thanks for attempting it and warning your followers. You have earned the right to show you frustration and I appreciate it. Keep smiling and sharing! [impossible]
This is perhaps the most hilarious video I've ever seen in my life. I love you, Karen.
Karen. I hadn’t worked on a serious jigsaw puzzle since my first year of college over 40 years ago. Because of you, I have purchased six jigsaw puzzles that I liked from your channel. I just did the first one. I did the silver Krypt. It was so much fun because there was a decent amount of variation. My friends thought I was crazy, but the interior circle on the Krypt was so rewarding. I agree with you that this puzzle is just cheap quality and terrible design. Keep up the awesome work. FYI, the Krypt was easier when I copied the key sheet and marked pieces off with pink highlighter.
A month ago I gave up on a 1000 piece puzzle (the picture called "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Beautiful picture, but except for the girl, the background was solid black and about half of the puzzle. The problem is that (except for the edge) EVERY piece was exactly the same basic shape (2 knobs and 2 openings), with very slight size differences. I got the picture completed, and the background begun, when I realized that my time was not worth it. You're welcome to the puzzle if you want it!
Thank you. Now I don't feel so bad about not finishing an almost all black puzzle. My issue was that multiple pieces could fit in one place. I felt it was IMPOSSIBLE to know if the fit was correct. However, I bagged up the color pieces with the thought that I would return to that puzzle at a later date. Now I don't feel so bad. Thanks 😊
How on earth anyone completes something like that? Impossible. This is pure evil. Like... Ice cream with ketchup.
I so understand your decision. Impossible was my attempt to do a 1000 piece ghost crab on a beach. It had the crab, a bit of sand and about 800 pieces of different shades of white. I gave up trying every single piece. Enjoying your channel very much. Greetings from 🇩🇪
Karen I'm happier to watch you quit this puzzle than complete it. Love your videos. Impossible
I really really really like your idea how to do this puzzle and it's not cheating at all because you have only your wits to figure out how to get these pieces back together and whatever method you choose to do it that's called being smart
That one would go straight into the blender for a delicious pulp smoothie.
Thank u Karen for teaching us a lesson. 🙏 That if something isn’t making us happy we shouldn’t do it!
I don't think I have ever actually given up on a puzzle before. But I try not to buy puzzles that don't seem like fun. And that one looks like it is torture and "impossible" to finish
I almost gave up on a Ravensburger puzzle called “ kaleidoscope”. However I decided to just work on it a little each day, while simultaneously doing another puzzle so I didn’t get too frustrated. I have to say I really felt like I accomplished something when I was done. I don’t blame you for not doing the Heinz completely red puzzle. Impossible.
The fact it's completely red isn't the issue. She's put together solid color puzzles before and was fine with them. The issue is that the lack of unique cuts makes it a puzzle that's not even worth doing, because putting a piece in doesn't give you any sense of accomplishment, and there's no "correct" way to do it even.
I love your new filming space! And don't worry about not finishing the puzzle, it looks impossible.
I look forward to her uploads all the time! Love her personality. I’ve given up puzzles before but when I have it’s so relieving. When they aren’t fun and become too stressful I must put it away! “Impossible”
"...and it took me three days..."
Me, taking literally 6 months to solve a thousand piece puzzle: Damn!
Such a smart smart girl. I like your thought process, when something's not working you move on and move forward, that puzzle was just meant to be a time-waster, life is too short, you made the perfect decision.
Imagine if the makers of Heinz said, "Whoops, we forgot to add an extra 0 to that puzzle", and the puzzle was 5,700 pieces instead. That would be pure torture/punishment
I literally always hated puzzling but ive been your binging your videos and suddenly felt the need to try it out myself! so I look for a puzzle my roommate and i strated in march but never finisched and now im sitting here watching your videos and trying to solve this! lets see how it goes
I just give up a puzzle beceause I want to do another puzzle it's not beceause he was impossible
Impossible! I think many of your viewers just like your style of content, your personality, your smile and enjoy hearing your perspective, regardless of whether or not you finish the puzzle.
Your laugh is so cute, it's impossible to not laugh along!
This actually did seem truly impossible! I can’t believe you even tried as much as you did. There was a certain point where I wondered if you were laughing or crying. I love watching you complete puzzles but I will never enjoy seeing you get this frustrated. I hope you found something much more fulfilling to do on this filming day to cheer yourself up. Can’t wait to watch more of your videos! ❤️❤️❤️
Great video as always. Nice way to pass the time while a cake is baking... it's impossible
I 100% don’t blame you for not finishing this impossible monstrosity. I have a puzzle that’s been on my table for a couple of weeks now that I might give up on. My mom got it for me for my birthday, and it’s made based on a photo of my cats. I really want to do it to have the completed photo. But it’s really hard because my cats are both black so it’s a lot of one color, and also the pieces are very loose fitting.
Yay! I’ve been waiting for this
Yes I have! It also had a puzzle with a large section of solid color that felt Impossible. I decided to move on for the same reason even after sorting by shape - I had better things to do with my time! I fully support your decision haha!
This puzzle could be a punishment for murder
Impossible: I've never given up on a puzzle. I literally spent 10 days working on a puzzle; it was my first ever 1000 piece puzzle. I want that Heinz puzzle!!! 😍
I wonder if maybe any of the "maybes" DO fit. like, they're cut in such a way that as long as you had the right piece type, it was technically right?
As far as I could tell, there was juuust enough variation to differentiate each piece, but it could probably be completed imperfectly and satisfy most people who aren't perfectionists.
As a kid I got a 1000 piece puzzle of a tiger, because they are my favorite animals, but the issue with that puzzle was that the image was glittering/reflecting and everything except for the tiger was snow, so all pieces changed color depending on the light and you had no image to look after. On top of that every piece connected to every other piece and it really was impossible to do (at least for me as a kid). Unfortunately my mom threw it away, so I could not find out if grown up me could have done it and because of my memory I will not pay money for this puzzle just to try it.
Thanks for you videos, I really enjoy watching them ❤
I do not blame you at all for deciding to quit, it was a really stupid puzzle.
18:00 The only time I gave up on a puzzle was a 1000 piece puzzle with 2 colours and the pieces were thin and cheap quality.
Code Word: Inpossible
I have given up on an impossible puzzle before. I was so relieved when I let myself do that. I wasn’t enjoying it. I had come to hate it. Good for you! I really like the shops of those cuts, but with no picture and poor quality construction, I’d give up before even starting.
Like the puzzle .
Karen . Have you thought about . double sided.puzzle
I've never given up on a puzzle but I agree with you this one is impossible. This is the only one I saw you give up on, I give you credit for even trying it.
I dont blame you at all -.- I didnt think it would be fun either...I am on board with you deciding to do something better with your 3 days lol
Ah I wish I could have gotten my hands on this one. I'm the kind of puzzler that doesn't care how long it takes, I have infinite patience when it comes to puzzles and like to do them just to finish them, no matter how long it takes. So a puzzle this difficult would actually be a super fun project for me
I once worked on an Elvis puzzle that was entirely grey scale. It was HORRIBLE! I worked on it for 3 days before packing it back up....it was literally making me angry. It was the total opposite of what I should have been feeling...there was no joy at all! It wasn't worth it!
Karen, you are so awesome I just had to stop the video 4 minutes and 40 seconds into it just to tell you that because I just love your energy I love your smile I love how you do your puzzles and you're so entertaining that's all I wanted to say.
I just woke up lol and this is the first thing in did
Edit: thank you all for this many likes. This is the most I've ever gotten! :D
Thank you for watching!
Lol same
same 😂
I know of an even worse offender. I have a mini puzzle that’s solid white, but it is entirely the standard piece shape. My dad bought it for me for Christmas, erroneously thinking that I would enjoy it. I got about as far into it as you did this one.
Wow, that product design is some hot dog toffee. Like it could have been so fun and pretty, but who thought that it was a good idea to make the pieces so identical?
I recently did a similarly impossible puzzle like that. It was a moose head. It took me three weeks. There were so many pieces that seemed to fit but weren't just *quite* right. I eventually became an expert at taking the connecting pieces and turning them over and holding them up to the light. If I saw light coming through, I knew it was wrong. It usually was. It wasn't fun, although when it was finally completed, there was a greater sense of satisfaction than I'm used to.
Let me tell you that life is absolutely too short to do something you don’t enjoy (& isn’t necessary). Haven’t yet given up on a puzzle but I’m sure it is coming. - Impossible 🧩
I have put a puzzle 'on hold' : the colors were all blending together so much after looking at it for so long (a picture of Josephine Wall). It was IMPOSSIBLE to see. So it is waiting, to be finished later. I think it is brave to even start, I would not have opened the box.
"Impossible" / although I am with you, I would have given up on this one. However, if the quality was better I could see not giving up and trudging on.
We did an Impossible puzzle once. We finally DID complete it. It was at our local mall, but bought by one of my friends. Every day we'd go and make good progress on it, and every night, one of the workers at the coffee stand there would tear it apart again. So we went one morning, just as the mall opened and stayed until we finished it. And we took it with us because our friend said we could have it. But we gave it to another friend to do. Emily (my daughter) and I didn't ever want to see it again! But it's still on sale anywhere jigsaw puzzles are sold.
Imagine if these pieces all have the same cut, AND they only fit together in exactly one way! o,O
I gave up on one puzzle many years ago. It was a large Gone with the Wind puzzle. I didn’t realize it wouldn’t fit on my table so I just quit! It wasn’t “impossible” tho! I had a few good laughs with you today.
“Whoever made this was literally Satan”
Me: that’s why it’s red not because it’s for ketchup but because it’s by satan
i’ve only given up on two puzzles! the first one was one of those landscape puzzles where 2/3 of the picture was a solid blue sky and the rest was grass with a tiny house in the middle. the second one was a 2000-piece puzzle i started when my cat was a kitten. he kept stealing pieces and ran all over the puzzle and messed up the pieces that i had sorted, so after a couple of hours of extreme frustrationi just packed it all up and threw the box in the back of my closet. it’s still there almost 2 years later haha!
"Whoever made this is literally satan" 🤣
Heinz could have done what some puzzle companies have done, that is, put sheet like lettering across the back of all the pieces. This allows for the puzzler to sort out pieces into their own quadrants (A to say F). That's three quadrants on the bottom and three on top, for example. This also allows for the puzzler to know if the pieces are really meant to be together. If two pieces, let say, share the letter A and part of the letter A is on one piece and part of the letter A is on the other piece, then when they come together they form a perfect A. Grant it, it's not fun having to constantly flip the couple or few pieces over to see if they belong together. This also helps those who are perfectionist to be able to check their work during or at the end of the puzzle. As for all those who have completed the Heinz puzzle, I do wonder how many of them might still have it wrong vs might have it right. Lastly, and as you mentioned, if the puzzle is using very similar or same colored pieces then changing the shapes of the puzzle pieces makes it a tad more doable/enjoyable (if that's your thing). Impossible, you say, maybe.
Karen having a mental breakdown with just seeing the box 😝
Thank you for finally tackling it, I’ve being asking for This video since day one. Too bad it was such an impossible endevour, i probably would have quit before you did. I have only quit a puzzle once, it was a Ravensburger all grey Paris scene with only a red umbrella on it, and the rest was just this universe of sad gray pieces. I gave it away to my nephew and he surprised me by actually putting all together during this quarantine.
Not first
Not last
Most importantly
Nobody asked
Top 400 tho
Ive got ADHD and puzzles like these are so helpful and keep my mind on one thought for longer than usual
Why a horrible impossible Heinz puzzle!
Maybe sign the pieces and mail them to your patrons and fans 👍