# 32,256 piece jigsaw puzzle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715 "2011-12-29T13:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/61 "2019-04-02T23:43:59Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Not familiar with some of the math notation. Example “since – + 1 pieces have been placed” > Or ,-1.+,–2.+…1.-2 > > Brian That’s because her html conversion didn’t do the variables. I need to convert it myself and send her a new version. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/62 "2019-04-02T23:45:52Z")
I thought there were missing characters, thought it be my browser but I tried a few. Or I thought I had a missing font. Brian ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/63 "2019-04-03T00:02:48Z")
I thinki the biggest puzzle grandma ever done was a 9 k big ben one when Milton Bradley made puzzles …… I remember spencer’s and Hanover house mail order type of places used to advertise things like “world hardest puzzle” it be like 10 or 15 k pieces of one color … front and back …… I always threatened to buy her one and her response was always " the hell you will … and if you do you know where you can shove it " ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/64 "2019-04-04T12:15:45Z")
Did I really start this thread over seven years ago? Man, it doesn’t seem anywhere near that long. I’m amazed at the longevity of Dope threads, and of Doper memories. This is the _nice_ kind of Zombie. And congrats on the article, **Voyager**. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/65 "2019-04-04T15:45:26Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > I remember spencer’s and Hanover house mail order type of places used to advertise things like “world hardest puzzle” it be like 10 or 15 k pieces of one color … front and back …… I remember seeing that in catalogs. IIRC they made the two axes’ cuts from opposite sides; each piece had two down-cuts and two up-cuts so you couldn’t tell the right way up – truly fiendish. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/66 "2019-04-26T05:03:44Z")
There is a new “Largest Jigsaw” at 51,300 pieces. [Details here.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://petapixel.com/2019/02/01/kodaks-worlds-largest-puzzle-has-51300-pieces-and-costs-600/&ved=2ahUKEwiOnpOR_OzhAhUKwlkKHdjKAf4QFjAHegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1vcTIPgWo0bDwQRlVLENO2) It is actually twenty-seven 1900-piece puzzles that join together, but it still takes the current title. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/67 "2019-04-26T10:32:28Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Bumping this thread to announce that my article got finished (finally) and published on a jigsaw hobby site. > > [Here it is.](https://www.puzzlehobby.com/Mathematics-Jigsaw-Puzzles.html) > > It has already gotten four times the hits of her normal puzzle review. The symbols are there now (probably were a lot earlier), so the equations are MUCH easier to follow 🙂 Brian ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/68 "2019-04-26T12:57:19Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > There is a new “Largest Jigsaw” at 51,300 pieces. [Details here.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://petapixel.com/2019/02/01/kodaks-worlds-largest-puzzle-has-51300-pieces-and-costs-600/&ved=2ahUKEwiOnpOR_OzhAhUKwlkKHdjKAf4QFjAHegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1vcTIPgWo0bDwQRlVLENO2) It is actually twenty-seven 1900-piece puzzles that join together, but it still takes the current title. How dull. I’d much prefer a gigantic single picture like a life-sized _Last Supper_ or something. Also, I’m curious, are the 27 images in 27 separate bags or all the pieces jumbled together? If the latter, the ‘naive solution’ referenced in **Voyager** ’s article would be truly daunting. 51,300! is 2.93804147 E+219352 according to a factorial calculator I dug up. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/69 "2019-04-26T15:50:42Z")
Every extremely large puzzle I have seen comes with sections in separate bags. The 18,000-piece one in my closet upstairs is really four 4500 sections. One day after my wife and I retire we are going to pull that sucker out. But we will do it by sections. Who has space (or insanity) to do it any other way? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/70 "2019-04-27T19:27:42Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > The symbols are there now (probably were a lot earlier), so the equations are MUCH easier to follow 🙂 > > Brian I coulldn’t follow it the way it was before. Thanks for the bump. I sent her a version that didn’t use the Word equations editor (which seems to have been the problem) and now it seems to work. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/71 "2019-04-27T19:36:25Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > How dull. I’d much prefer a gigantic single picture like a life-sized _Last Supper_ or something. Also, I’m curious, are the 27 images in 27 separate bags or all the pieces jumbled together? If the latter, the ‘naive solution’ referenced in **Voyager** ’s article would be truly daunting. 51,300! is 2.93804147 E+219352 according to a factorial calculator I dug up. My equation shows why no one seems to make that. I figure I don’t have enough years left to do one that’s not split up - though when you do something big you automatically partition it. The woman who runs the site has special lighting for her puzzles. She puts out all her pieces and sorts them by color before she starts. She has a lot of cheap foam boards to do this on. She also has over 200 puzzles in her queue (incluing the 32K piece one) which makes my 40 look inisignifant. I bought four foam boards for $1 each at the dollar store and taped them together to make a board big enough for my 5,000 piece puzzles. I finished all except the black border pieces of the 3,000 piece Start Trek puzzle I show in the article. No big black stretches, so pretty easy. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/72 "2019-04-27T19:59:34Z")
So, Kodak dumped a bunch of completely separate normal-sized puzzles in one big box, and they’re calling that a single puzzle? How is that worthy of being called a “world record”? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/73 "2019-04-27T19:59:49Z")
So, Kodak dumped a bunch of completely separate normal-sized puzzles in one big box, and they’re calling that a single puzzle? How is that worthy of being called a “world record”? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/74 "2019-04-27T20:04:51Z")
So, Kodak dumped a bunch of completely separate normal-sized puzzles in one big box, and they’re calling that a single puzzle? How is that worthy of being called a “world record”? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/75 "2019-04-27T23:51:22Z")
I didn’t even know Kodak made puzzles. And if the photo is correct it looks like all the pieces are close to identical in shape. Not much fun. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715/76 "2020-03-28T20:40:17Z")
There’s a piece about that 51,300 piece Kodak JIgsaw Puzzle today online. Evidently someone thinks this is a great idea for Something To Do During the Quarantine > **[Kodak Created the World's Largest Jigsaw Puzzle to Celebrate 27 Wonders of...](https://mymodernmet.com/worlds-largest-puzzle/?fbclid=IwAR2_XyTwPVutfz3H-o263tEVR-xSLkhTE2elUo6M-saqlTShz3lVYv3DsR0)** > > Stuck at home with nothing to do? Why not challenge yourself to complete the World's Largest Puzzle? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-256-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/607715.md?page=3)