The crazy busy holidays are over. It’s time to cozy up and relax at home. And just in time – it’s National Puzzle Month (National Puzzle Day is January 29th)! What better time to dig into a fun and challenging puzzle!
Setting a puzzle isn’t just about fitting pieces together. It’s an art that requires patience, strategy, and even a touch of creativity. It’s fun to watch a picture come together, one piece at a time.
Puzzles allow you to relax and unwind after a busy day. If you set puzzles with a friend or family, you have time to visit, talk, and laugh while enjoying your favorite beverage and a snack. No smartphones to interrupt you.
Our family really enjoys setting puzzles together, We especially love the very challenging puzzles. We often leave a puzzle on our center island, and everyone who passes stops what they’re doing for a few minutes to work on the puzzle. It’s fun! Here’s a selection of some of our current challenging favorites.
Make sure to read my other puzzle articles for even more challenging puzzles, and for a bunch of helpful tips, tricks, and ideas.
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6 Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults
Fun and Difficult Puzzles for Adults – National Puzzle Month
Fun and Difficult Puzzles for Mother’s Day Gifts
A Most Difficult Puzzle for Spring – Natural Grass
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Bees in the Poppies Puzzle
This Bees in the Poppies puzzle is not only colorful and fun to look at, it’s also challenging!
The puzzle features 43 varieties of poppies – the promise of Spring.
Puzzle Details: 1000 pieces, 27″ x 20″ finished size
Nutz and Bolts Puzzle
This Nutz and Bolts puzzle is nuts!
The puzzle features a photo of a huge pile of hardware – nuts, bolts, washers, and miscellaneous pieces. The puzzle is more challenging that you might initially think. Give it a try!
Puzzle Details: 1000 pieces, 29″ x 20″ finished size
Vortex Puzzle
Go on an adventure with this Vortex puzzle!
The puzzle features an illustration of the famous Bramante staircase in Rome. While this puzzle has less pieces than we’re used to, it is definitely a challenging puzzle!
Puzzle Details: 750 pieces, 27″ x 20″ finished size
Double-Sided Beach Puzzle
This beach puzzle is double-sided – two puzzles in one!
The pieces in this puzzle have a picture on each side – one of a shipwreck of Navagia Bay and the other the emerald waters of Montenegro. Figuring out which side to put together first is half the fun!
Puzzle Details: 1000 pieces, 28.7″ x 20″ finished size
Double-Sided Beach Puzzle
Here’s another double-sided beach puzzle!
This puzzle features one side that shows an illustration of people on a sandy beach. The other side of the puzzle is an illustration of people swimming in the ocean. This one is quite challenging, even with just 500 pieces.
Puzzle Details: 500 pieces, 24″ x 18″ finished size
Time Warp Puzzle Star Watchers
This Time Warp Star Watchers Puzzle is really unique.
This puzzle is the first puzzle we’ve seen where the puzzle you are actually assembling is the illustration on the box – BUT, what that illustration would look like at night. You have nothing to guide you to the night version of the puzzle except your imagination and maybe a few hints from the puzzle box illustration of the day image. It’s a fun puzzle to put together!
Puzzle Details: 1000 pieces, 26.625″ x 19.25″ finished size
Time Warp Puzzle Rock the Cat’s Paw
We loved putting together the Time Warp puzzle mentioned above, so we bought the Rock the Cat’s Paw Time Warp Puzzle as well.
Like the Time Warp puzzle above, the puzzle you put together is the night version of the image on the box. You have nothing to go by but the day time image and your imagination. This is really a fun concept for a puzzle – give it a try!
Puzzle Details: 1000 pieces, 26.625″ x 19.25″ finished size
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