Monday, November 30, 2020

PuzzNiks

It's not enough that these silly 60's PuzzNiks jigsaws come with over 125 pulse-pounding pieces, they also included a "surprise witticism" that you would only discover AFTER it was completely assembled! In this case it's, "When I ask your opinion, I'll tell you what to say." Hmmmm, pretty "witty." A quick online search (mostly eBay) tells me there were quite a few of these puzzles produced by Warren Paper Product Company's Built Rite division located in lovely Lafayette, Indiana, and each featured a colorfully different looking vaudevillian-esque character bordering on kooky court jester or hobo clown. I wonder if the other puzzles also had a tiny, weirdly cut area that contains no actual puzzle piece?!! (see last scan close-up)





6 comments:

Bill the Butcher said...

Well, surprise witticism or not, that's pretty much the motto of today's so called free media.

Brian Barnes said...

I don't think I'm taking any witticism from somebody with that fashion sense!

Mr. Karswell said...

Says the guy who posted a picture of himself playing guitar while wrapped in a strand of xmas lights!

Mr. Cavin said...

That random puzzle hole is just weird as hell. Entirely intentional and yet totally unnecessary. I don't even know how they could create a die cut that would have this effect. Or why.

Currently, we're working on a four-thousand-piece jigsaw that takes up the whole dining room. I even had to dig up the extra leaves, make the table as big as possible. The pile of pieces has run to the sideboard, the pass-over bar, the cutting board. We're three fourths of the way though the puzzle now, I guess; we've been working on the thing since the beginning of October. It was a nice distraction, to while away our quarantine--but who knew it could have outlasted four quarantines (and counting)? That's an awful long time to look at one waterfall.

Mr. Karswell said...

Yikes, 4000 pieces!! REALLY??? I about wanna kill myself working on a 200 piecer... I can't even imagine a 1000 piece. You are a real hero, haha

Mr. Cavin said...

Ha ha, yeah. I don't really flinch too bad at a thousand pieces, anymore. Since we, ah, work for the US Government, we started in on difficult puzzles in 2016 so as to stave-off despondency. The hobby (habit?) has grown from there. It works like a charm, though! Turns the brain right off between terrible headlines and quiets the nerves during the attrition of all I hold dear.

But four thousand pieces is too much. Way too much.