Andre F. completes a 33,600 piece jigsaw puzzle called "Wildlife" by Educa. Dimension of the finished puzzle: 224.41 x 61.81 in. He spent a lot of time just turning the pieces right side up!
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Giant jigsaw puzzle took 9 months to complete – watch a timelapse
Rubik's Connected Cube tells you how to solve it
Rubik's Connected Cube [Amazon] is a Rubik's cube with the internet in it, so that it may connect to an app on your phone which provides tips, "lessons", and the solution. Gizmodo's Andrew Liszewski reviewed it. He's OK with it, but not the $60 price tag. It takes about an hour to work through all… READ THE REST
Neumorphic Knots — a fun web-based puzzle game
The goal of Neumorphic Knots is to swap tile pairs to form closed loops. It's more fun than I thought it would be. To swap two tiles, just click on them, or tap if you're playing on a touchscreen. (The term neumorphism is new to me. It's a design style that blends skeuomorphism with flat… READ THE REST
Excellent cheap puzzle book: The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations
I bought the Dover edition The Moscow Puzzles in 2014, and it's still one of my all-time favorite puzzle books. Here are a few samples: Book description: This is, quite simply, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions… READ THE REST
Add this professional-grade blender to your kitchen arsenal for under $100
If you're looking for a demarcation point between people who have a kitchen and people who actually use their kitchen, a quality blender might be a solid way of telling the difference between the two. For those whose culinary abilities don't go far beyond microwave popcorn and frozen pizza, there's likely little reason to even devote… READ THE REST
This hyper-cool, minimalist floor lamp is guaranteed to spark a conversation
We're all looking for home furnishings that come with extra gear. Of course, we want basic functionality or a certain decorative flair for that coffee table or piece of wall art or those window coverings that we bring into our home. But every once in a while, we run across a home furnishing item that… READ THE REST
These 20 air purifiers can help combat allergy season — and they're all on sale now
While the last year has been preoccupied with COVID, let's not forget there were plenty of good reasons to be concerned about the air you were breathing before 2020. With springtime rolling back on the calendar, one of those reasons has returned with its usual seasonal vigor — allergies. Seasonal allergies affect up to 30… READ THE REST