Amy has been really getting into jigsaw puzzles recently. We bought her a couple of them for Christmas and my Nan sent her a wonderful farm puzzle with 36 pieces as well. Initially, I thought she was still a little young for them, but once again, my little girl has proved me wrong. She has taking to puzzles like a fish to water and happily does a 36 piece jigsaw puzzle by herself. Admittedly, she goes by trial and error, but with some encouragement, Amy sits there until the end when she shouts ‘Yay, I’m a winner’. It’s lovely to see her celebrate her own little success and while we are talking about celebrations, I want to wish you all a ‘Happy National Puzzle Day’!
Designed in 1760 by British engraver and map maker John Spilsbury, the puzzle is now three hundred years old and has since enchanted, educated and entertained children and adults alike. Could we need any more reasons to celebrate with a special National Puzzle Day giveaway? I don’t think so!
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Ahhh, I used to love jigsaw puzzles. I was very lucky as I had an uncle who was very well travelled and he brought home amazing wooden jigsaws. My favourite was a big wooden chunky giraffe one. Thanks for the question, that’s brought back lovely memories!
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I have no idea!The last one was an octonauts one
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I had a fab wooden farmyard puzzle that I used to make up over and over again when I was young.
I remember doing lots of disney puzzles when I was little, mainly mickey and minnie I think
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A Winnie the Pooh one I think x
I’m sure there were earlier jigsaws but I always remember doing my Where’s Wally jigsaws – Under the sea was my favourite x
I always remember my grandma having loads of puzzles in her cupboard under her stairs and the one I remember the most was a map of the UK jigsaw puzzle. It only had 100 pieces but to a young child, the pieces were never ending! It was the first big jigsaw I completed (with the help of my grandma and older brother), so I remember it well! Whenever we went to stay over at grandmas, to allow our parents a night out, we loved getting out her jigsaw puzzles. Ahhhh lovely memories!
It was a jigsaw puzzle of a picture of two children playing with a kite.
a rubik cube
I remember doing the Rubiks cube. Although I don’t think taking all the stickers off and swapping them around strictly counts!
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Haha that was my strategy too
Where’s wally!
A huge Jungle Book one
Oh gosh I really can’t remember but I always did jigsaws as a child
Ooo, I’m not sure! I remember I had a baked beans one where all the pieces were very similar – it was hard, lol!
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I can’t remember! My only childhood memory of puzzles is that my Granny always had one on her dining table that she was working on, with such tiny pieces. I would have competitions with my brother and sister to see who could get one of the pieces in the right place.
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I have memories of a tom and jerry jigsaw. x
it was of cats and dogs a waddington one i think it was so long ago
A kitten puzzle.
postman pat! I was chuffed as it only took me 6 months to finish, it said 3 – 5 years on the box!
I can’t really remember any of mine, but my little boy loved his big dinosaur one.
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Ahh my little girl would love this, beautiful xx
My and my older girl used to do a twenties one, she would spend hours doing it xx
I remember having a Spot the Dog’ jigsaw as a child – it was only about 6 pieces but I remember it vividly.
I can’t remember!! I do recall doing a 5,000 piece jigsaw with my brother and sister which had a massive blue sky!
I always used to do a lot of puzzles with my grandad when I was little, one of the first ones I remember was a bit cat puzzle!
a massive dolphin one, it had colorful fish and reef as well as some of the pieces being shaped like dolphins
had a puzzle of a cartoon bunny in dungarees
I loved puzzles wjen i was little but the main one i remember was a giant floor map puzzle
With my nan and it would havebeen flowers
probably the flumps as it was my fave tv programme
I loved doing jigsaws as a child and my 3 year old daughter is obsessed.We search car boot sales and charity shops for new ones.My first jigsaw was a Charlie Brown and snoopy one sent from a Canadian cousin.I still remember the joy when I completed the 80 piece puzzle all by myself!
I remember doing lots of Disney puzzles when I was younger
winnie the pooh x
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cant remember my grandma had a lot at her house that we used to do when we went there
I had a wooden alphabet one when I was very little, that’s the first one I remember being able to do!
Old Mcdonald’s Farm puzzle & still got it somewhere stored
one of a map of the UK!
I had a puzzle with view of mountains, made it many times.
I think it was little red riding hood
At my Granny’s house, probably something with lots of sky on it maybe a picture of a cottage
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something to do with dick wittington
One of a kitten.
I really don’t have a clue!
A panda
Oh, that’s going back a LONG time ago!!!
“Think” it either one based on the Ladybird stories (Peter and Jane books from the 70s) or The Fox and the Hound as that was my favourite film as a child!
A Cinderella one
I think it was a Postman Pat puzzle from Woolworths
Farm animal jigsaw
An old wooden farm puzzle
wooden animal one
I cant remember which ones but I remember sitting with my great grandmother and doing them when I was little
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A round one with a ginger cat on it
Wooden farm animals puzzle..
Eeyore, I think…
Postman Pat
A farmyard puzzle
I have no idea but my daughter loves Frozen
thomas the tank
Mine was a jigsaw of a TV show in the 70′s (showing my age) called Sally and Jake. I loved it!
I remember having a uk map puzzle when I was a child.
A Paddington Bear one
I solved plenty, cant remember which one was first, probably some cottage view – I love puzzles and use solving them as a way to unwind and relax, I have few bigger ones framed on the wall
a teddy bear jigsaw
i dont have an actually memory of solving this puzzle as i was only 18 months old at the time but it was a Spot the dog puzzle
my grandma used to have this wooden puzzle, with different shapped pieces. there are thousands of solutions, each creating a different picture/pattern, but the pattern had to fit back into the box. Can’t remember what it was called but I loved it!
A circus one
Noddy in toyland
a kitty jigsaw
a teenage mutant hero turtles jigsaw
I defo remember having a Rainbow Brite one when I was a tot!
I can remember trying to do a impossible jigsaw which was a picture of thousands of smarties, didn’t get very far
A big red bus puzzle I think x
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A Mickey Mouse puzzle.
I had an alphabet one when I was little
I used to have several old disney puzzles and a round Winnie the Pooh one which was my favourite
a 100 piece disney princess one!
A jigsaw at nursery! I used to always play with it.
i think it must’ve been an animal one
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A jigsaw with woodland animals wearing clothes!
I think it was thomas the tank engine.
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Think it was a jungle themed one
I really can’t remember, I wish I could though
I think it was a Mickey Mouse one, on a farm with the usual suspects and also Clarabel, Goofy’s girlfriend!!
it was an alphabet puzzle
Really want this! I haven’t done a jigsaw in what feels like forever!
I had a Bannaman puzzle – I loved it
picture of a sheepdog
I used to have a Noahs Ark Puzzle that I loved!
A wildlife one
The first puzzle I completed was god knows how many years ago. It was one of those with the knob bits and you had to slot them into the holes. If that doesn’t count, I was putting together four piece jigsaws of farms and whatnot at three or four years old.
A jigsaw of a picture of the Engagement of Lady Diana Spencer and a Prince Charles. I did it with my Mam and it took ages to complete.
I remember doing a Jabba The Hut one with my Gran, lol. Such fun memories
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I don’t remember any from being a kids so it would be Thomas the tank engine when my son was little
I can’t remember! But my brother and I used to love puzzles when we were younger and now I love doing them with my daughter.
i used to do jigsaw puzzles with my dad. usually of landscapes
it was a big chunky jigsaw that was the alphabet
Mine was one that looked liked spilled baked beans and I did it with my Granddad
A Mr Men floor puzzle!
A huge alphabet puzzle I got when I was 4
Must have been a pony one as I was mad about horses when I was little
I had a huge jigsaw of a goldfish
a winnie the pooh puzzle
Rubik’s cube
I’m not sure if it was the first but the only puzzle I remember was a Care Bears one x
I remember having a Cookie Monster puzzle that was kept at gran’s house that I used to love!
No idea!!! think I was too busy making mud pies!!
probably a child’s four piece one
My first puzzle was a 9 piece postman pat jigsaw which i kept and now my 2 year old plays with. she’s got a little collection of 9 & 12 piece puzzles and can complete them with relative ease so i think it’s time i find her something more challenging.
I remember doing a Thomas the tank engine one and was so proud when it was finished and upset when i had to take it apart lol xxx
A Barbie jigsaw puzzle
Jungle book puzzle
I can’t remember but I remember doing lots of tweenies ones with my little sister who’s ten years younger than me x
That’s a long time ago lol, I can’t remember! xx
cant remember the very first one. but the one that sticks was my first wasgij puzzle.
I had a lot of cottage scene puzzles when I was younger which I think might have been my mothers, and I know I completed them all! We’ve always loved puzzles in my family so when i was little, there was usually one half done on the dining table that everyone would find a couple of pieces for as they walked past it
I can always remember the jigsaw puzzle my mother was completing, which we all helped with, it was huge, 5000 or 10000 pieces and it had some poppies on it. It was nearly complete, then my brother, quite young at the time knocked one of the legs on the table and it all came down, crumbling to pieces in the process. – I remember we did eventually complete it though.
a father christmas jigsaw
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I had a 6 piece Spot The Dog puzzle which I loved and so did my little boy when it was passed down to him.
an alphabet one. My nan still has it!
Victoria Plum puzzle
I had several, mostly of famous paintings
A My Little Pony jigsaw – I loved it!
I had wooden alphabet & numbers puzzle – it was quite basic and I remember sitting on the floor with a yellow letter “Y”. It is my earliest memory
Something to do with barbie lol
I can’t remmeber when I was small but used to wasgij with my mum
I always loved doing puzzles and remember doing them with my grandad
A Rubik Cube
Landscape
As a child of the 80′s I remember I had a giant playschool puzzle!
My grandma had a circular jigsaw, and I can’t for the life of me remember what it was about, although I feel that it had a fifties feel – you know, I’m going to have to ask my mum what that jigsaw was about now
Probably big wooden cubes with different pictures from fairy stories
I remember having a Goosebumps (the book series) jigsaw puzzle when I was younger that I loved doing.
We had two noddy Jigsaws. They only had 6 pieces but I remeber putting them together repeatedly.
shape sorter, i think was my younger brothers
The muppets
Wild animals
one of those tooth fairy puzzles!
Postman Pat was my favourite as a child
I remember a Care Bear puzzle that my parents bought me and I had to hide it away in my bedroom from my three brothers. I was so excited when I completed it that I wanted it framed but my baby brother got hold of it and chewed two or three of the pieces. I was so disstraught.
I remember doing one of the Disney Castle – 1000 piece puzzle with a lot of help from my brother
pretty sure it was a rosie and jim jigsaw… i used to love doing jigsaws with the family over christmas. x
Star wars when I was five
Rubix cube
A popeye one that was holographic but i couldnt pick it up to make the picture move without it falling apart lol
Dont remember the first but I remember a team building exercise. We were running out of time and had several challenges left and I managed to solve one in about 30 seconds by thinking outside the box.
the childrens wooden handle jigsaws
I always loved those Logic Problem books as a kid
But the first thing I did was a wordsearch I’m sure – I used to have a programme on my Atari ST that created wordsearches, it was the best!
wordsearch at school
A Postman Pat one! (Pretty sure it only had 4 pieces)
i remember as a child i did a sooty and sweep one and then i was hooked im now 66 and grand mother to 14 !!!
I remember having a Rupert the bear jigsaw. Its probably still in my mum and dad’s attic!
As I’ve been doing jigsaws for over 60 years I’m afraid I can’t remember my first one
A wooden Spot the Dog one
i cant remember that far back but my jigsaw love has been rekindled got 3 for xmas.
To be honest, I can’t honestly remember, as I always used to love doing jigsaws even from a very young age! I have just helped my little girl to complete one of the Rainbow Magic Mystery Puzzle jigsaws and that was fun!
mr men one
Cludo
A Get Along Gang puzzle with the occasional little animal puzzle shapes!!
I can remember doing some Rupert Bear ones.
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i dont remember
I had a couple of Playschool jigsaws that I loved doing and which I passed on to my eldest!
I had puzzles with Disney characters
I honestly couldn’t tell you, but have always loved puzzles. Even now my mum, sister, nan and I still sit down and do puzzles together from time to time.
three little pigs
Sooty