MANUFACTURER: MILTON BRADLEY
PIECES: 1000
MOVIE: GETTING IT RIGHT
NOVEMBER 16TH, 2016
Even though it was still early in my puzzle assembling career, by this time I pretty much had my method down. I always, without exception, put the sky together first. It's almost always the most easily identifiable pieces in the box so they are easy to pull out first. I put the sky edge pieces together first and then, if possible, put together the bottom edge of the sky, creating an enclosed area. Since I sit on my sofa and put the puzzle together on my coffee table, I found putting all the edge pieces together first forces me to lean uncomfortably over the table to put the top together. This is why I work more or less from the top down.
After completing the sky, I usually move to the area down. Often times it's something like mountains, or a town, or in this case, a castle. Now let me tell you about castles. If there's one thing I love more than puzzles, it's castles (haha tricked you). I'm sure I'll get into castle discussion in a future post because god knows how many of these damn puzzles feature a castle.
As I work my way down the puzzle, I oftentimes have to skip around to areas that are more distinctive. Its easier to do areas that are lighter first. You can obviously see more detail in the lighter areas so its good to get them out of the way. The hardest part is usually areas of trees or shrubbery. I usually try to avoid puzzles with too much greenery on them. It just gets too tedious and I honestly lack the patience for that. Sorry trees, learn from castles and stop being lame.
