Wednesday 13 May 2020

It Seems That A Few Times Every Week,

a new jigsaw puzzle is announced,


 but these are like no others, some of which are featured here,

 although not released yet,

 they are still in the Kickstarter stage,
 so how are these like no other? 

 from the Kickstarter page:

above the die for the "Happy Isles" puzzle, usually, the tolerance for that slice is about 3mm. But to pull off the magical ending in our Series One puzzles, we needed a 0.5mm tolerance. Nobody had done that before, so we had to work closely with our puzzle factory create new quality-control and die-cutting techniques to make it happen. Some of the roughly 3,000 blades that make up our dies actually had to be precise to within 0.1mm — 30 times more precise than a regular puzzle,


Series One from The Magic Puzzle Company is a set of three new 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles with original art and a magical surprise at the end, so we worked closely with independent artists like Sarah BecanBoya Sun, and Felicia Chiao to create beautiful one-of-a-kind puzzle images loaded with tiny details, story quirks, and easter eggs, when Max Temkin was considering his latest project, Magic Puzzles, he wanted to ensure that the most exciting moment wasn’t inserting the last piece. The Chicago-based designer stated, 'We set out to create the most entertaining jigsaw puzzle you’ve ever done by combining the traditional jigsaw puzzle experience with ideas from the worlds of tabletop games and magic, We commissioned incredible, original art from independent artists, designed from the very beginning to be used in a jigsaw puzzle, we designed a surprise ending using techniques from optical illusions and magic that adds an extra experience to the end of the puzzle, 

·        Each puzzle has over 50 easter eggs to find as you solve (and they come with a guide to help)
·        Each puzzle is 28" x 21", and has 1000 pieces. That's about 4% larger than the normal size of a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle.
·        We imported the highest-quality puzzle cardboard in the world (1.9mm Eska "blue" stock) from the Netherlands and invented some new printing techniques so the pieces snap together and stay snapped
·        These puzzles have been extensively playtested to make the experience as smooth and engaging as possible from the moment you open the box to the moment you place the last piece of the last segment
·        When you're done with the puzzle, everything can be reset and all of the secret compartments close back up with velcro so you can share the puzzle with a friend or solve it again later.
·        No puzzle dust!!

once you have finished the 1,000-piece jigsaws that have an added surprise: “When you receive the box, there’s a big envelope that says, ‘Don’t open this until you’re done with the puzzle.’ When you finish the puzzle and open that up, it starts the magical ending and makes some cool surprises available,” Temkin says. Once users complete the mythical landscapes and fantastical scenes—and open the envelope—an optical illusion and final narrative reveal themselves, as an added bonus, each individual piece has its own miniature picture of a figure, building, or scene. "To make the magical ending work right, we had to customize the shape of every single piece in all three puzzles", they sound so good I am selling one to myself!


1 comment:

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