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Thank you everyone for watching my videos all year! I’ll be taking a little time off for the holidays, but I have so many plans for puzzles and videos to work on in the new year. I hope you all have a great holiday filled with lots of puzzling!
MORE INFO (Please upvote) - I forgot to check Reddit while doing the research for the video, and a few people messaged me about their copies after I posted the teaser video. So we can start filling out the list- 1: Cathedral (Challenger Series) 18: Wildlife Portraits 19: The Wave of the Future 28: Santa Claus is Coming to Town I also got a message about one with the Nordevco puzzle “Numbers” but the sticker was pulled off the box. If any of you have found another one, I’d love to know which puzzle you got and what number it was!
I mentioned that in another comment, but I don't think yours is number 28,but that it's an old price tag for someone selling the puzzle for 2.8 $ The other numbers were in yellow circles and as others pointed out it looks more like "2.8" than 28. I have seen a lot of old prices indicated like that especially on self made / reselling price tags. So I would try looking under the sticker if there is another number hiding there
Doesn't everyone have a "mystery puzzle" in their house, where the box was completely destroyed but a ziploc bag of puzzle pieces still clings to life? Just my family?
You certainly deserve a break. The world championship videos were next level and you have done an amazing job showing how exciting something as simple as doing puzzles can be.
I freaking loved the tournament series but also excited to get back to regular programing! Thanks for another wonderful year of videos!! Happy holidays!
A photograph of you, in your filming area, with a dog you don't recognize, and he's bringing you a newspaper with a date visible over the fold -- and it's from next week!
the coincidence that this puzzle was christmas themed is so funny 🤣 happy to have watched you all year, Karen, and i can’t wait for more next year! looking forward to the next giant puzzle 😉
I usually do my puzzles without looking at the reference image, so I would LOVE a mystery puzzle! I'm going to rope my mom into doing what you said and buying a puzzle and just giving me the bag and don't let me see the box until I'm done! It's such a great idea!
I started watching your videos a few months ago and started puzzling again after not having done it for years. And now my husband and I puzzle together for a couple of hours every night after dinner, mainly Jan Van Haasteren and a few Wasgij puzzles. It's my favorite time of the day and it's all because I started watching your video 😊 Merry Christmas 🎅 from Sweden!
7:51 Convex. I remember which is which because conCAVE means the curve makes a little CAVE. Otherwise I would have to think a lot more about it and make that same mistake anyway.
the most common mnemonic in German to remember this is based on words for basically naughty and nice that rhyme with convex and concave respectively. And the mnemonic then goes if the girl was nice her belly is going to be concave, and if she was naughty she'll get pregnant and her belly will be convex, and yes they did teach us that at school.
I LOVE the little coincidence that the puzzle was Christmas themed! I have been so busy that the holidays have snuck up to me, and this was the first time I heard any Christmas music or watched anything remotely Christmas themed. It's making me at least a little bit excited for the whole thing. ❤😊
What a great puzzle! In the Netherlands we have whats called "Wasgij" puzzles and they are a kind of mysterie puzzles. The image you puzzle is different then what you see on the box. I really love those. Happy Holidays.
Springbok offered a mystery puzzle option on their website around Christmas a few years ago. It just came as the bag of pieces, no puzzle box. It was one of the regular puzzles so I assume there was a variety of puzzles that got shipped out from it. It was really fun to do a puzzle with no knowledge of what the picture would be.
In the UK we had / have day and half day coach trips out, often from or to holiday destinations. They would be advertised on boards - eg in Central Devon one could go , depending on day of week to Minehead, Plymouth, Brixham, Padstow . There would also be "mystery tour" where the destination was not revealed until you arrived - normally at a place with a tea room and so on. One couple were on holiday for a week and decided to try the mystery tour - It went to Western-Super-Mare. the town they normally lived in !
My sister gave me 2 thousand-piece puzzles as mystery puzzles for Christmas last year. She kept the packaging and put the bags with the pieces in a pretty box under the Christmas tree. I had a lot of fun with the puzzles!
I definitely prefer to have an image. I only started puzzling because one of your videos randomly popped as a suggestion and you got me hooked, so I am very much a beginner. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your family.
Thank you for the professional quality worlds footage and the high quality videos you keep putting out! Happy holidays and a good new year without missing pieces! 😊
I find puzzling without looking at the box more relaxing. Well as long as the puzzle image is fairly simple 😊 we have a little puzzle club at work and we have had few mystery puzzles - someone has brought just the pieces. Those have been 500 piece puzzles with distinctive pictures and everyone has loved those! So I highly recommend trying that 😊
Although I have an idea of the image I'm working on at any one time, I usually hide the lid while I'm working on any puzzle. One of the few exceptions to that habit is with Van Gogh's "A Starry Night." Way too many blue pieces!
Yes I have done a mystery puzzle. I was at a trade show where New York puzzles had a booth. They handed out just a bag of puzzle pieces. So fun. Just like you said. So easy to do with a friend, just give them a bag of pieces.
When I was a kid, we had a bunch of old wooden jigsaw puzzles that were no longer in their boxes, and most had no picture to work from. Several had been made by my uncle, using an actual jig-saw and art prints glued onto plywood. Lots of swirly interesting shapes in his designs, which unfortunately meant that some pieces were quite fragile and had got broken over the years.
Thank you for a wonderful year of puzzles, puzzling and competions. All the very best for Christmas and the New Year to you and your family, and not forgetting the 300,00+ subscribers.
20:49 - I do the same thing with the puzzle-of-the-month *Completing the Puzzle* puzzles. I carefully pull out the bag of pieces and the return label, leaving the poster in the mailer, unseen.
I got a mystery puzzle once for Christmas, and I really enjoyed it! The picture was a mystery, but it also had a built in mystery to solve using clues in the puzzle. It was my first time doing a puzzle without a reference, and I found it so satisfying!
My friend is a librarian and brought me a cute cat puzzle from their collection. As I sorted the pieces, it looked like human hair, not fur... And there was a lot of wicker and lace. And then I found the creepy doll eyes. It turned out it was Springbok's Dolls' Tea Party that had somehow ended up in the wrong box. I managed to get the border and some of the larger details assembled before I googled and found a picture of the cover, which I used to position the floating faces and figure out which lace pattern went with which doll. So I did ~50% as a complete mystery, and the rest looking at a miniscule, low-res pic on my phone.
You did a great job with the World's video's. I also love the tip for doing a mystery puzzle of your own with a friend. I am not a good enough puzzler to want to take on a puzzle with no photo. :)
I am really happy that something inspired you to decorate for Christmas. It obviously made you happy. A Christmas image any othet time would have been disappointing.
I loved the synergy of this video! I received a mystery wooden puzzle for my birthday this year and it was so much fun to put together and figure out :)
My guess on IG was umbrellas. I haven't exactly done this type of mystery puzzle, but I did buy a thrift store puzzle and quickly realized it wasn't the image on the box. That was fun! Both box and puzzle were Springbok so I found it in the database after it was complete and turned out to be the jellybean puzzle.
I once worked in an office in which we would bring in jigsaw puzzles to work on during downtime - a few pieces before a meeting, while waiting for feedback, or after work. One time we had a bag of pieces with no box, so no image to reference. It was a Christmas puzzle with about a third of the pieces missing, but we solved what there was, enough to locate the full image online. Merry Christmas, Karen. 🎄
I wonder how often mystery puzzles are/were used for overruns or puzzles they otherwise had left over or had been sent back. It would be an easy way to move stock they otherwise might be stuck with. Especially in this case as it looks like there was a date on the Christmas puzzle, so if it doesn’t sell in that year, you can take it back, and just put it into a cheap and easy to print mystery puzzle box and ship it back out. Would be a good way to manage their inventory.
I do a "mystery" puzzle of sorts. I buy my own puzzles, but when I do them, I put the box away. So I have an idea of what the puzzle is, but I don't reference any picture. I love that feeling of having figured out how it all goes together! Happy holidays, Karen! ❤❤❤
I don't use the image when I do a jigsaw. I usually know basically what I am doing, just don't look at the box while I'm doing it. So I am happy to have a mystery puzzle. Some of my parents old puzzles don't have a box anymore so you don't always know what the image is!
Wooooo, surpise puzzle turning out to be a vintage Christmas illustration, and you getting to it near Christmas just because you were putting it off is such a nice coincidence! And it's so cute, too! I did a puzzle that had a colour gradient AND a bunch of textures all around, so I barely looked at the box other than to orientate the puzzle properly, and figure out which big feather goes where. Especially since the printed image was smaller than puzzle, of course, and I wouldn't be able to even see some of the finer details. Yet I have never done one fully without a box! Have a nice break, and happy holidays!😊
I loved the world puzzle competition series. However, I would be ok if you wanted to break them up further. You could even add a sitcom element to it. With "Previously on... " or "To be continued..." There was a moment between two of the competitions I thought you were going to do a "next time on...." That way, you can get more content & videos out of the world series. As it is so close to vlogmess time of year, you could add a vlogmess element to it. Enjoy your break!
When my husband bought me puzzles, he would always hide the box and just give me the bag of pieces so I have done many puzzles this way. Good job on the World's videos!
happy holidays karen! the worlds videos were masterfully put together and edited. they were definitely worth the wait. but I also love to watch your “easier” videos to do like this. I love and appreciate how much care and passion you put into your videos! enjoy your well-deserved break!
The longest time I worked on a puzzle was a “Wasgij” puzzle. The image on the box is not the image on the puzzle, so it is in fact a mystery puzzle. It was very satisfying to discover what the true image was.
My guess was a train in a winter landscape, so in the neighborhood at least. Also the poinsettia gives me hope for future Lego content, Lego sets are a kind of puzzle 😸
My guess was a generic green landscape with trees and a river, but it was a fun surprise to see the Christmas theme! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Karen!🎄🥂 Enjoy the break, you deserve it! ❤️
Thanks for another year of wonderful, thoughtful content, Karen! I hope that you enjoy the holiday season, and I wish you happiness, health, and prosperity in the new year.
I think the image will be scenery at a lake with people having picnics. Thank you, Karen for the amazing Worlds content and I am looking forward to regular content again. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thanks to your videos, I’ve now got back into puzzling again. I have quite an old mystery puzzle which I just did. It’s an inspector Morse one and you just have a leaflet setting the scene. I’ve done it many times over the years and enjoy doing it
This turned out to be the perfect holidays video! Such a cool idea for a Christmas present! I would love a gift like mystery puzzle!) I certainly should give a hint to my friends!)))
Okay but that's genuinely a fun way to do a puzzle. Seeing this at Worlds would be hilarious and WILD xD I love that it coincidentally turned out to be Christmas themed! I hope you enjoy your break :D Thank you for another wonderful year of puzzling!
Hi Karen. I've been a subscriber to your channel for only the past few months but have also watched a lot of your older videos when they show up on my UA-cam recommendations. During covid lockdowns here in Australia, I started doing Wasgij puzzles having not done any jigsaws since my children were young over 50 years ago. You never know what Wasgij puzzles will be until you've done them and they are the only types of puzzles I ever do. I've done 80 since 2020 & have over 60 puzzles in my walk-in cupboard waiting to be done. I love not knowing what the puzzle will be and they are such funny & amusing puzzles. Love your channel especially the competition videos. I am definitely NOT a speed puzzler but I find it very relaxing and good for my brain stimulation so I try to do a couple of hours puzzling every afternoon. Looking forward to more videos from you after the holidays. 😍
I've already watched the video, but I'll be honest about what my guesses were. As a person who was puzzling quite a bit in that era, I thought it would be (1) almost certainly a photograph, (2) most likely either a landscape with a lot of green OR a collection of related small objects, and (3) quite possibly not rectangular. I feel like I did all right with that, overall. Regarding reference images, I like having them available just to see the general nature of the image before I start, but I rarely use them as I'm actually solving the puzzle. That's not to say I'm some kind of genius and don't need them; it's just that I'm a weirdo who enjoys having to figure things out rather than being told the answer. I will use the image if I'm under some sort of time pressure or end up not enjoying the puzzle for other reasons and just want to finish it, but mostly I don't bother.
I did a mystery puzzle recently. The only hard part was I several sections in the wrong place as I went but that's part of the fun of a mystery puzzle.
Enjoy your holiday break! ❤ I'll be doing a puzzle or two for my Disney princess Thomas Kincade puzzle collection. They're the primary wall decor for my little girls' rooms, and now that my youngest is two she gets to upgrade from her nursery decor. 😁
What a fun coincidence! It was a perfect puzzle for this time of year! I've never done a mystery puzzle like this, though I've done a few where the image does not match the picture on the box (Puzzle Twist, Ravensburger Escape Room one, one where they forgot to change the box picture to match with the redesigned puzzle).
As for the end of video question, with a really easy puzzle, I do it upside down to make it have any challenge. However, with anything big, I really like the image for sorting purposes.
That is a lovely picture; I am a child of the 80s so its old fashioned vibe appeals. I was thinking puppies or kittens though when we were challenged to guess.
I used to put puzzles together with my grandma in the late 60s early 70s and she had puzzles with these same weird shaped pieces! There were lots of false edge pieces! Man I wish I had those puzzles now!
@karenpuzzles at around 8 minute mark you say you need to go look for concave pieces, but you need to find convex, which would bow out, and can ignore the concave, which would bow in.
@karen do you think this could make a new category in speed puzzling to do in pairs or teams with a blind puzzle- no one had done before and no picture - would really be amazing to see who excels !
Happy Holidays, Karen! And thank you for all the hard work you put into those worlds videos - they were so enjoyable to watch. I have done a 'mystery' puzzle before, but it was more like your suggested do-it-yourself version - a friend of mine lent me a puzzle of theirs that didn't have the box or a photo anymore, so I didn't know what the image was! It was an interesting change from the usual. :)
I did Alfred Hitchcock mystery puzzle with no picture. Didn’t think I would ever finish it but I did. However I could not solve the mystery! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! C u next year and now I can catch up on all your older videos.
I’m guessing a portrait of a cat and a dog side by side, indoors, the cat is wearing sunglasses. They’re sitting in front of a table with fruits in a bowl.
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Thank you everyone for watching my videos all year! I’ll be taking a little time off for the holidays, but I have so many plans for puzzles and videos to work on in the new year. I hope you all have a great holiday filled with lots of puzzling!
Happy holidays all🎉🎉
Happy holidays 🎉
Have a great holiday! We’ll be waiting! ❤️🌲
Happy holidays! Have a wonderful break! You've earned it!
Enjoy your break, Karen!! I hope to make it to a Puzzle competition this year thanks to you!! Merry Christmas! (Or happy holidays!) ❤💚❤️💚❤️
MORE INFO (Please upvote) - I forgot to check Reddit while doing the research for the video, and a few people messaged me about their copies after I posted the teaser video. So we can start filling out the list-
1: Cathedral (Challenger Series)
18: Wildlife Portraits
19: The Wave of the Future
28: Santa Claus is Coming to Town
I also got a message about one with the Nordevco puzzle “Numbers” but the sticker was pulled off the box.
If any of you have found another one, I’d love to know which puzzle you got and what number it was!
I strongly suspect your number is not 28 but 2.8
So series 2 random puzzle 8.
(It makes sense to me as a math geek)
@@RuthBhmand I was thinking the same thing.
Someone in your shorts video said they had one with ducks (maybe the wildlife portrait?)
That the first 5 puzzles are a single digit makes me think it's 28.
I mentioned that in another comment, but I don't think yours is number 28,but that it's an old price tag for someone selling the puzzle for 2.8 $ The other numbers were in yellow circles and as others pointed out it looks more like "2.8" than 28. I have seen a lot of old prices indicated like that especially on self made / reselling price tags. So I would try looking under the sticker if there is another number hiding there
It was probably also a good way for them to get rid of puzzles that didn't sell as much as they had hoped.
My thought was the same. They probably decided after Christmas was over they wanted to get rid of all their left over Christmas stock.
Doesn't everyone have a "mystery puzzle" in their house, where the box was completely destroyed but a ziploc bag of puzzle pieces still clings to life? Just my family?
Good point, I’ve definitely had a few of those over the years 😂
Those are my FAVORITE! (see above!)
I have just a regular plastic bag with pieces, maybe that's the sign I gotta get to it and remember what's in that puzzle!
You certainly deserve a break. The world championship videos were next level and you have done an amazing job showing how exciting something as simple as doing puzzles can be.
I freaking loved the tournament series but also excited to get back to regular programing! Thanks for another wonderful year of videos!! Happy holidays!
A photograph of you, in your filming area, with a dog you don't recognize, and he's bringing you a newspaper with a date visible over the fold -- and it's from next week!
Maybe if I was inside a Black Mirror episode 😂
the coincidence that this puzzle was christmas themed is so funny 🤣 happy to have watched you all year, Karen, and i can’t wait for more next year! looking forward to the next giant puzzle 😉
The only thing I'm not clear about is whether Karen knew it was going to be Christmas themed before she opened it. 😆
I usually do my puzzles without looking at the reference image, so I would LOVE a mystery puzzle! I'm going to rope my mom into doing what you said and buying a puzzle and just giving me the bag and don't let me see the box until I'm done! It's such a great idea!
There is a company in Germany that does mystery puzzels. So if you're in Europe you could probably also get those
I started watching your videos a few months ago and started puzzling again after not having done it for years. And now my husband and I puzzle together for a couple of hours every night after dinner, mainly Jan Van Haasteren and a few Wasgij puzzles. It's my favorite time of the day and it's all because I started watching your video 😊 Merry Christmas 🎅 from Sweden!
7:51 Convex. I remember which is which because conCAVE means the curve makes a little CAVE. Otherwise I would have to think a lot more about it and make that same mistake anyway.
the most common mnemonic in German to remember this is based on words for basically naughty and nice that rhyme with convex and concave respectively. And the mnemonic then goes if the girl was nice her belly is going to be concave, and if she was naughty she'll get pregnant and her belly will be convex, and yes they did teach us that at school.
That's the way I remember it as well.
I LOVE the little coincidence that the puzzle was Christmas themed! I have been so busy that the holidays have snuck up to me, and this was the first time I heard any Christmas music or watched anything remotely Christmas themed. It's making me at least a little bit excited for the whole thing. ❤😊
What a great puzzle! In the Netherlands we have whats called "Wasgij" puzzles and they are a kind of mysterie puzzles. The image you puzzle is different then what you see on the box. I really love those. Happy Holidays.
I’ve done a few of those! I really like them too 😊
I literally came here to talk about the wasgij puzzles, I like them to! 😊
I did a Mystery Wasgij puzzle (opera robbery) yesterday, great fun to have some references but also a bunch of differences. :)
Springbok offered a mystery puzzle option on their website around Christmas a few years ago. It just came as the bag of pieces, no puzzle box. It was one of the regular puzzles so I assume there was a variety of puzzles that got shipped out from it. It was really fun to do a puzzle with no knowledge of what the picture would be.
In the UK we had / have day and half day coach trips out, often from or to holiday destinations. They would be advertised on boards - eg in Central Devon one could go , depending on day of week to Minehead, Plymouth, Brixham, Padstow . There would also be "mystery tour" where the destination was not revealed until you arrived - normally at a place with a tea room and so on. One couple were on holiday for a week and decided to try the mystery tour - It went to Western-Super-Mare. the town they normally lived in !
Oh! So that's where The Beatles got the name for the album "Magical Mystery Tour".
My sister gave me 2 thousand-piece puzzles as mystery puzzles for Christmas last year. She kept the packaging and put the bags with the pieces in a pretty box under the Christmas tree. I had a lot of fun with the puzzles!
Schrödinger's puzzle!
It's square and circle in a superposition!
@@williamnathanael412 or random puzzle of cat, one alive, one dead ?
I definitely prefer to have an image. I only started puzzling because one of your videos randomly popped as a suggestion and you got me hooked, so I am very much a beginner. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your family.
Thank you for the professional quality worlds footage and the high quality videos you keep putting out! Happy holidays and a good new year without missing pieces! 😊
I find puzzling without looking at the box more relaxing. Well as long as the puzzle image is fairly simple 😊 we have a little puzzle club at work and we have had few mystery puzzles - someone has brought just the pieces. Those have been 500 piece puzzles with distinctive pictures and everyone has loved those! So I highly recommend trying that 😊
Although I have an idea of the image I'm working on at any one time, I usually hide the lid while I'm working on any puzzle. One of the few exceptions to that habit is with Van Gogh's "A Starry Night." Way too many blue pieces!
Yes I have done a mystery puzzle. I was at a trade show where New York puzzles had a booth. They handed out just a bag of puzzle pieces. So fun. Just like you said. So easy to do with a friend, just give them a bag of pieces.
Happy holidays to Karen and to all!!!
When I was a kid, we had a bunch of old wooden jigsaw puzzles that were no longer in their boxes, and most had no picture to work from. Several had been made by my uncle, using an actual jig-saw and art prints glued onto plywood. Lots of swirly interesting shapes in his designs, which unfortunately meant that some pieces were quite fragile and had got broken over the years.
Thank you for a wonderful year of puzzles, puzzling and competions.
All the very best for Christmas and the New Year to you and your family, and not forgetting the 300,00+ subscribers.
This is the PERFECT inventory surplus plan. I love it.
20:49 - I do the same thing with the puzzle-of-the-month *Completing the Puzzle* puzzles. I carefully pull out the bag of pieces and the return label, leaving the poster in the mailer, unseen.
It depends on my mood. Sometimes I use a reference image, sometimes no! Happy Holidays Karen and enjoy your time with your family!
I always do my puzzles, without using the image, but to have no idea at all what you’re getting, sounds even more fun.
I got a mystery puzzle once for Christmas, and I really enjoyed it! The picture was a mystery, but it also had a built in mystery to solve using clues in the puzzle. It was my first time doing a puzzle without a reference, and I found it so satisfying!
I love that they have printed the inches and Zentimeters at the box. This shows that they have thought outside the box.
My friend is a librarian and brought me a cute cat puzzle from their collection. As I sorted the pieces, it looked like human hair, not fur... And there was a lot of wicker and lace. And then I found the creepy doll eyes. It turned out it was Springbok's Dolls' Tea Party that had somehow ended up in the wrong box. I managed to get the border and some of the larger details assembled before I googled and found a picture of the cover, which I used to position the floating faces and figure out which lace pattern went with which doll. So I did ~50% as a complete mystery, and the rest looking at a miniscule, low-res pic on my phone.
You did a great job with the World's video's. I also love the tip for doing a mystery puzzle of your own with a friend. I am not a good enough puzzler to want to take on a puzzle with no photo. :)
I am really happy that something inspired you to decorate for Christmas. It obviously made you happy.
A Christmas image any othet time would have been disappointing.
I loved the synergy of this video! I received a mystery wooden puzzle for my birthday this year and it was so much fun to put together and figure out :)
The perfect cozy video to watch on the afternoon of my birthday hehe✨ happy holidays!
Happy holidays and... happy birthday! 🎉
Happy Birthday!!
Happy holidays Karen! Thanks for so many fun videos this year
My guess on IG was umbrellas. I haven't exactly done this type of mystery puzzle, but I did buy a thrift store puzzle and quickly realized it wasn't the image on the box. That was fun! Both box and puzzle were Springbok so I found it in the database after it was complete and turned out to be the jellybean puzzle.
I once worked in an office in which we would bring in jigsaw puzzles to work on during downtime - a few pieces before a meeting, while waiting for feedback, or after work. One time we had a bag of pieces with no box, so no image to reference. It was a Christmas puzzle with about a third of the pieces missing, but we solved what there was, enough to locate the full image online.
Merry Christmas, Karen. 🎄
I wonder how often mystery puzzles are/were used for overruns or puzzles they otherwise had left over or had been sent back. It would be an easy way to move stock they otherwise might be stuck with. Especially in this case as it looks like there was a date on the Christmas puzzle, so if it doesn’t sell in that year, you can take it back, and just put it into a cheap and easy to print mystery puzzle box and ship it back out. Would be a good way to manage their inventory.
I do a "mystery" puzzle of sorts. I buy my own puzzles, but when I do them, I put the box away. So I have an idea of what the puzzle is, but I don't reference any picture. I love that feeling of having figured out how it all goes together!
Happy holidays, Karen!
❤❤❤
I found an 80s mystery puzzle from Bits & Pieces at the thrift store. (The box just says "secrets" on it!) The image was not at all what I expected! 🤣
Merry Puzzlemas puzzlers. Hope you and your family have a great Christmas.
I don't use the image when I do a jigsaw. I usually know basically what I am doing, just don't look at the box while I'm doing it. So I am happy to have a mystery puzzle. Some of my parents old puzzles don't have a box anymore so you don't always know what the image is!
I am the opposite.
I use the lid, scan the image until I find the exact spot to put it in. Then I am familiar with the fine details of the puzzle.
Wooooo, surpise puzzle turning out to be a vintage Christmas illustration, and you getting to it near Christmas just because you were putting it off is such a nice coincidence! And it's so cute, too!
I did a puzzle that had a colour gradient AND a bunch of textures all around, so I barely looked at the box other than to orientate the puzzle properly, and figure out which big feather goes where. Especially since the printed image was smaller than puzzle, of course, and I wouldn't be able to even see some of the finer details. Yet I have never done one fully without a box!
Have a nice break, and happy holidays!😊
I've done a few mystery puzzles - one was a vintage Stave puzzle, which was AMAZING! Very cool how this puzzle ended up being Christmas themed ❤🎄
Merry Christmas Karen. Your work on the the World's was fantastic and I LOVE this mystery puzzle. Have a great holiday!
I once got a puzzle box that advertise 7 national Park puzzles, but none of the bags were labled. So it was a mystery bin the beginning
I loved the world puzzle competition series. However, I would be ok if you wanted to break them up further. You could even add a sitcom element to it. With "Previously on... " or "To be continued..." There was a moment between two of the competitions I thought you were going to do a "next time on...."
That way, you can get more content & videos out of the world series. As it is so close to vlogmess time of year, you could add a vlogmess element to it.
Enjoy your break!
When my husband bought me puzzles, he would always hide the box and just give me the bag of pieces so I have done many puzzles this way. Good job on the World's videos!
happy holidays karen! the worlds videos were masterfully put together and edited. they were definitely worth the wait. but I also love to watch your “easier” videos to do like this. I love and appreciate how much care and passion you put into your videos! enjoy your well-deserved break!
So fun that it ended up being Christmas themed!
The longest time I worked on a puzzle was a “Wasgij” puzzle. The image on the box is not the image on the puzzle, so it is in fact a mystery puzzle. It was very satisfying to discover what the true image was.
My guess was a train in a winter landscape, so in the neighborhood at least. Also the poinsettia gives me hope for future Lego content, Lego sets are a kind of puzzle 😸
I love Legos but just doing them for fun. I don’t need to make content about everything 😅
Happy Holidays Karen! Hope you have a good rest xx
My guess was a generic green landscape with trees and a river, but it was a fun surprise to see the Christmas theme! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Karen!🎄🥂 Enjoy the break, you deserve it! ❤️
This reminds me of that Murder Mystery Puzzle. Also, we love a fun mystery.
1:17 My guess is landscape with many tiny details.
Thanks for another year of wonderful, thoughtful content, Karen! I hope that you enjoy the holiday season, and I wish you happiness, health, and prosperity in the new year.
Merry Christmas Karen ... you deserve the 2-week rest!
Merry Christmas Karen! Hope you have a nice break! Thank you for providing us with so much entertainment!! 🎄🎀🎄🎀
I think the image will be scenery at a lake with people having picnics.
Thank you, Karen for the amazing Worlds content and I am looking forward to regular content again.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Happy holidays Karen! Thanks for all your vids this year, you reinvigorated my joy for puzzles 😊
Merry Christmas Karen! Stay amazing!
Thanks to your videos, I’ve now got back into puzzling again. I have quite an old mystery puzzle which I just did. It’s an inspector Morse one and you just have a leaflet setting the scene. I’ve done it many times over the years and enjoy doing it
This seems like a very clever, and very cheap, way to get rid of some unsold backstock.
Thank you for your chill videos, i always enjoy them. Enjoy your well deserved break :)
Happy Holidays Karen - You brought me into the world of Puzzling and I will be forever grateful
This turned out to be the perfect holidays video! Such a cool idea for a Christmas present! I would love a gift like mystery puzzle!) I certainly should give a hint to my friends!)))
my guess is a landscape, with a lake with houses around it, and mountains in the distance
It's gotta be meerkats. WAIT NO I'm sure its a pack of llamas with a picturesque Argentinean backdrop.
What a surprise, those convex edge pieces! (...concave being a bend that shows being sunken down, not bubbled upward). 7:54
Okay but that's genuinely a fun way to do a puzzle. Seeing this at Worlds would be hilarious and WILD xD I love that it coincidentally turned out to be Christmas themed! I hope you enjoy your break :D Thank you for another wonderful year of puzzling!
Hi Karen. I've been a subscriber to your channel for only the past few months but have also watched a lot of your older videos when they show up on my UA-cam recommendations. During covid lockdowns here in Australia, I started doing Wasgij puzzles having not done any jigsaws since my children were young over 50 years ago. You never know what Wasgij puzzles will be until you've done them and they are the only types of puzzles I ever do. I've done 80 since 2020 & have over 60 puzzles in my walk-in cupboard waiting to be done. I love not knowing what the puzzle will be and they are such funny & amusing puzzles. Love your channel especially the competition videos. I am definitely NOT a speed puzzler but I find it very relaxing and good for my brain stimulation so I try to do a couple of hours puzzling every afternoon. Looking forward to more videos from you after the holidays. 😍
I've already watched the video, but I'll be honest about what my guesses were. As a person who was puzzling quite a bit in that era, I thought it would be (1) almost certainly a photograph, (2) most likely either a landscape with a lot of green OR a collection of related small objects, and (3) quite possibly not rectangular. I feel like I did all right with that, overall.
Regarding reference images, I like having them available just to see the general nature of the image before I start, but I rarely use them as I'm actually solving the puzzle. That's not to say I'm some kind of genius and don't need them; it's just that I'm a weirdo who enjoys having to figure things out rather than being told the answer. I will use the image if I'm under some sort of time pressure or end up not enjoying the puzzle for other reasons and just want to finish it, but mostly I don't bother.
I literally was thinking "Would be funny if it's themed around the season of the year." Turns out it is, lol. It is a cool puzzle. Great find Karen.
And here I guessed it'd be an ocelot chasing a bird! I was way off, hahaha!
I did a mystery puzzle recently. The only hard part was I several sections in the wrong place as I went but that's part of the fun of a mystery puzzle.
Enjoy your holiday break! ❤ I'll be doing a puzzle or two for my Disney princess Thomas Kincade puzzle collection. They're the primary wall decor for my little girls' rooms, and now that my youngest is two she gets to upgrade from her nursery decor. 😁
At 1:18 I think this image will be very busy like maybe a picture of collectibles
What a fun coincidence! It was a perfect puzzle for this time of year! I've never done a mystery puzzle like this, though I've done a few where the image does not match the picture on the box (Puzzle Twist, Ravensburger Escape Room one, one where they forgot to change the box picture to match with the redesigned puzzle).
As for the end of video question, with a really easy puzzle, I do it upside down to make it have any challenge. However, with anything big, I really like the image for sorting purposes.
1:18 - My guess: a landscape with a river in the middle, and some birds in the sky.
That is a lovely picture; I am a child of the 80s so its old fashioned vibe appeals. I was thinking puppies or kittens though when we were challenged to guess.
I love the accidental timing of this video!
We bought one last summer. It was so much fun. Turned out to be a bunch of vintage train tickets.
Happy holidays! I got an advent calendar with a mini puzzle in each day, and I'm gonna take it into work today and give one to each of the kids 😊
Closest I've come to a mystery puzzle is when I get them from the thrift store and hope they still have all the pieces!
I used to put puzzles together with my grandma in the late 60s early 70s and she had puzzles with these same weird shaped pieces! There were lots of false edge pieces! Man I wish I had those puzzles now!
@karenpuzzles at around 8 minute mark you say you need to go look for concave pieces, but you need to find convex, which would bow out, and can ignore the concave, which would bow in.
@karen do you think this could make a new category in speed puzzling to do in pairs or teams with a blind puzzle- no one had done before and no picture - would really be amazing to see who excels !
Happy Holidays, Karen! And thank you for all the hard work you put into those worlds videos - they were so enjoyable to watch. I have done a 'mystery' puzzle before, but it was more like your suggested do-it-yourself version - a friend of mine lent me a puzzle of theirs that didn't have the box or a photo anymore, so I didn't know what the image was! It was an interesting change from the usual. :)
You haven't finished a puzzle unless you run your hands over it at the end.
I did Alfred Hitchcock mystery puzzle with no picture. Didn’t think I would ever finish it but I did. However I could not solve the mystery! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! C u next year and now I can catch up on all your older videos.
I love the research you do for all of your videos. And what a fun challenge to not have an image to work from. Happy holiday puzzling! 🧩❤
Happy holidays to you, and I'm glad this year you had a better puzzling experience than putting together that Christmas tree lol
Have a great break! never have done a mystery puzzle but might set it up w a friend. Thanks for great idea! 🦌💌❤️🧩
I’m guessing a portrait of a cat and a dog side by side, indoors, the cat is wearing sunglasses. They’re sitting in front of a table with fruits in a bowl.
I thought 'puppies or kittens' but you really thought your mental image through!😂
@ I figure if I’m gonna be way off…. (Or rather, what if I was right? No one would believe me!)
Does a Wasgij mystery puzzel count?
Merry Christmas Karen! And thank you for all those great videos this year!
Wasgij is a lovely serie of mystery puzzles, it gives a hint, but is still quite interesting.