That’s because her html conversion didn’t do the variables. I need to convert it myself and send her a new version.
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
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 "
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.
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.
There is a new “Largest Jigsaw” at 51,300 pieces. Details here. It is actually twenty-seven 1900-piece puzzles that join together, but it still takes the current title.
The symbols are there now (probably were a lot earlier), so the equations are MUCH easier to follow 
Brian
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.
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?
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.
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.
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”?
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”?
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”?
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.
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