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The Puzzle Institute
Stories, studies, guides & obsessions from Australia's puzzle specialists.
Buying guides, behind the scenes, brand deep-dives and interesting details about puzzles. Written by people who actually puzzle.
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Mind & Wellbeing
The Week I Could Not Stop Puzzling
Last week I wrote about giving up on a puzzle. Then I quit that one, started another, and could not stop. This is the uncomfortable half...
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Mind & Wellbeing
Is It OK to Give Up on a Jigsaw Puzzle?
Stuck in a sea of grass and flowers, my sister asked why I did not just quit. It...
Accessories
What Do You Glue a Puzzle To? Mounting and Framing a Finished Jigsaw
The question nobody answers properly. Glue bonds the puzzle to itself, and the sheet then needs a backing....
Buying Guides
Venice on 1000 Pieces: Ravensburger or Clementoni?
We hold five different 1000 piece Venices from two brands, and there is a $10 gap between them...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Aimee Stewart Puzzles
A self-taught digital artist from Washington State who has become one of the names Australian puzzlers buy by...
Buying Guides
How Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made
A cardboard jigsaw is a printed sheet glued to two millimetres of recycled board and cut in one...
Puzzle Index
The Ravensburger 1000 Index
We took twenty 1000 piece puzzles that have been on sale continuously since 2017 and priced them year...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Holdson Puzzles
A family firm in Auckland has been making jigsaw puzzles since 1939, starting with plywood and a modified...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Cloudberries Puzzles
Almost every puzzle brand sells you a scene. Cloudberries sells you a composition: shells graded by colour, pixels,...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Falcon de Luxe Puzzles
Turn a Falcon piece over and the back is blue, not grey. That is not decoration, it is...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Jumbo Puzzles
Most people who own a Jumbo puzzle do not know it. The company publishes Wasgij, Jan van Haasteren...
Buying Guides
The Best Jigsaw Puzzles in Australia, Judged Honestly
Everyone selling puzzles says theirs are the best. Almost nobody says what "best" means. Here is the honest...
Research
How Often Do People Buy Jigsaw Puzzles?
We went back through six years of orders to answer something we could not find written down anywhere:...
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