This puzzle defeated me once. Let’s try it again.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
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Today I’m solving the Mermaids puzzle that stumped us at the National Jigsaw Puzzle Championships. Watch my full videos about the event:
I went to a puzzle competition. It was way harder than I thought.
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I almost won the National Jigsaw Puzzle Championships. Here's what went wrong.
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Well...every time I try to promote the Karen Puzzles Puzzle in a video, it ends up unavailable. It should get restocked soon, but I don't know the exact timeline. Stay tuned to my Instagram for more updates!
I pre-ordered almost 2 weeks in advance and its tell me 1-2 months - I was so bummed!!
I already got it last Tuesday after pre-ordering! Now to find time and a place to do it where my cats won't play with it haha
@@stacyssassystyles probably all in stock are gone and they need to print more
Pretty cool puzzle!
I preordered and got it a few days ago. the first challenge is finding a big enough place to do it!
Sherlock had Moriarty, Regina George had Janis Ian, Ariel had Ursula and Karen has the 1500 Piece Puzzle with the Under the Sea Theme.
Does this mean Karen is Ariel and Ursula is a puzzle in an alternate reality? 😂
Implication that Karen is a fictional character
Aristotle had MASHY SPIKE PLATE!
Idk if people appreciate just the amount of editing you undertake to make these videos. Thank you for making puzzling look so fun and rewarding!
The exact same board that you had for the puzzle with those that wanted to used in the game/Olympics I guess I don't really know what you should call it but yea.
“Like really sitting down and doing this one for real - I’m really liking it.” Just preemptively making fun of myself for that one before anyone else has a chance to 😅
I got a kick out of "for real."
Like, good one 🤣
Congratulations on finishing this challenging puzzle and for your team Not losing any pieces!
I think 7.5 hours is pretty good alone, considering a team of 4 needed more than 5.5 to finish.
I love how you kept the audio of the puzzle pieces clicking into place in this video! The sound is so satisfying!
Love the way you run your hands over a finished puzzle. 😁 For us, you spread so much puzzle cheer, YOU are a true champion.
I agree. I didn’t understand why until after I watched her and the started doing puzzles. It feels so good to feel it all smooth. And you are also making sure 😊there are no pieces not fitting in. 🧩🧩🧩
@@AuntGrace Oh, OK! Now I understand.
I always feel, you all do it to express an inner feeling of pride and happiness at having finished the puzzle.
Ooh, the *click click snap* of the pieces going in were so satisfying in this one! I'm glad you were able to tackle this puzzle again and properly enjoy it. :)
I liked that you gave a shoutout to the artist. I actually have put together the "poisons and potions" one twice. It is fun, but pretty difficult for me who is a pretty slow puzzler. In that puzzle i started with the bright orange and red pieces followed by the DRAGON. I would probably tackle this one in the same way 😄 Thank you for the video Karen, it is always fun to watch. 😊
I felt bad that we were all ragging on this puzzle in the last video, when it's actually beautiful artwork if you're not trying to race it!
I loved all the close up ASMR-like shots of placing pieces in the right spots. This puzzle was so pretty and reminded me of a huge dragon puzzle I did as a kid.
We need more ASMR-like shots!
Learning to puzzle as a team really seems like its whole beast, just putting 4 strong puzzlers together won't suffice. Seeing this video makes the top teams' achievement at the competition look even more impressive, it underlines how difficult the puzzle was, even by itself, so as the third trial in a limited time competition.
Congratulations to anyone who finished it, during the competition and outside of it.
You have inspired me to try to do puzzle competitions. I think I will be trying to do one in St. Paul next January! I am so excited! Thank you, Karen!
I love to hear that! You'll do great!
Best of luck to you, but most importantly, have fun! :D
If I did the puzzle myself, I would probably try the plants on the bottom left, cause i like when the lines orient the pieces for you. Or the dragon, what the hell.
By the way the audio is so good on this one, it really goes in asmr territory when you're clicking pieces into place ^^
I'm so glad you gave this puzzle a go again! It looks very difficult
It's difficult but not frustrating when you're not trying to speed through it!
I attempted to do the Potions puzzle by the same artist with my best friend and her mom and it was so difficult to collaborate on it. Mad respect to anyone who got this puzzle even close to done during the competition, y'all are dragons! 😂
I would 100% want to focus on the dragon first (and no, not just because it's the word of the day lol). I find the scale texture to be easy to sort out, and I feel that it spans enough of the puzzle that it'd be very good to work off of. Hooray for finishing this one!! And hey, divide your final time by four and you plus three clones of you could've done it in less than 2 hours.
My copy of "Puzzles on Puzzles" came in yesterday, and I can't wait to start it! This underwater puzzle is also on my list now, it looks so cool!
Amazing, thank you for ordering one!
In an attempt to gather some courage to try again to conquer the 3000 puzzle I have, I stumbled upon your tournament video and thought: "This is long and doesn't look exciting" oh how wrong I was lol thank you for your content, I'm going 2 years back watching your puzzling videos! The editing is amazing btw you're doing quality job! Super interesting to watch! :)
I was hoping you would redo this puzzle. Thanks for doing it again! Too funny you said you would do the dragon first, and still did it in the order you worked on it as a team. I do think the bottom would be what I would start with and then maybe the mermaids. And then the dragon. Thanks for the video Karen!
Hope you had a great friend's-giving!
So I'm concluding that you need to clone yourself three times and form a hive mind, and then you'll be able to solve it very quickly indeed. As for me, I think I'd want to focus on the dragon first, because that's a good chunk of the middle right there.
i really like this puzzle. its very cute and has so many things happening it would take me a long time to study the whole thing.
god i love the sound of the pieces clicking together lol
I've always liked a puzzle and owned a few, but since I saw your videos I've now worked through my small collection and have had to go charity shop shopping to get more. My only problem is I find it so hard to walk away from a half-done puzzle and find myself sitting in the same position for hours on end. Thanks for the content @KarenPuzzles
the sound of the puzzle pieces connecting is so freaking satisfying! and that connection of the red squid up top to the edge OOOOOOF that hit that good spot in my brain
Spotted some one-handed puzzling a la Our Queen Kristin 😍
"Because of daylight savings, it's 4 o'clock and already getting dark"
_sobs in British winter_
And apparently 78 degrees, which is about 25 celcius. In november. That's summery for me 🤣. Being a bit more south than UK/NL has its perks.
Yeah, being on the 53rd parallel north puts me at the same latitude as the Gulf of Alaska! You don't realise how far north a lot of Europe is until you compare it to places like the mainland US
I would do the squid and the sand, then I'd probably challenge myself too much and get stuck on the dragon. I really like the illustrations of this puzzle, but sussing out all the different blue tones would drive me nutty ha! 😊✌️❤️
Coming back to watch this since it’s been on my wishlist forever. I don’t know if anyone appreciates that sorting game but I do. I literally cannot I just hunt and peck for 15 hours. But I hate the sorting process with a passion but it is SATISFYING to watch you do it 😂 and I know it goes so much faster!
You know this is some serious jigsaw puzzling when you have an actual puzzle piece count: 6:02
Oh wow I love the other puzzles Zoe has made, I’ve been thinking about getting the potions one. No wonder I liked the look of this one so much! I knew it would be difficult in a speed puzzling setting, but I do really love the design and small details.
I think I would choose the sand beach area to work on first because I like the bright yellow, i would then work the orange areas and so on, leaving dark colours until last. The dragon looks like it would drag-on to me and take hours 😊
Hi Karen!
I bought the puzzle after this video. It took 11 hours and 45 minutes to finish it.
I was hoping for at better time, but I'm not as good as you. Most of the time was in the evening after the kid was put to bed.
My puzzles arrived in time
for Thanksgiving, Karen ☺️
I gifted 1 to a rest home of
seniors and they 💚💚 it!!!
I'm so happy to hear that!
@@KarenPuzzles
They also BEAT ME but it
was SIX to 1... LOL! 😁✌️
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I always forget... DRAGON!
The winning team are cyborgs!
Dragon! This was fun watching you do this puzzle, and I am so happy for you that you have your own puzzle! Can't wait to get my hands on one of them. Happy Holidays.
Hello ! You should go ahead and check out the puzzles from the brand Pieces & Love. It's a French brand using unique design in collaboration wjth modern artists and illustrators. I have two feom their brand and I really live them ! They have really funny themes as well, for example a 1000 pieces puzzle with a flower pattern and a sentence written on it in French saying "I was bored" 🤣
Dragon is beautiful. I wish there is puzzle competition in Asia.
You could sign up for an online competition and just work around the time difference from wherever it is being hosted.
I think I'd claim the blue dragon, since it's not the easiest part, but it is an important part of the puzzle and can help others situate their pieces.
Karen, what do you listen to when you puzzle like this?
For this one I marathoned the new season of Pseudocide, which is about the disappearance/possible faked death of Olivia Newton-John's ex-boyfriend (it's a Spotify exclusive if you want to look for it). When I need a break from true crime, my new favorite is Celebrity Memoir Book Club.
@@KarenPuzzles thank you! Found and following on Spotify. Well done on your 2nd place..proud of you. ❤️
I am working on the Poison and Potions Puzzle right now. I am only did the sorting and edges so far... but it does have a dragon as well
I would not start with the dragon. Maybe the red squid.
In one of your recent videos you said "I am tired of hard puzzles". You could well cycle through the 500 pieces puzzles under "time pressure" (as if you were in the individual event of a tournament). That won't take forever, it is still hard due to the time pressure and it is still puzzling.
So happy to see you finally got to complete this one! My husband and I picked it up at the competition and finished it at home in a bit more than 11 hours. It was our first puzzle over 1000 pieces. I worked on the sand first and then struggled with that fabulous dragon eel thing. Thank goodness my husband did all the tiny fishies! The artwork is beautiful though! Thanks for sharing the artist's other puzzles. The gnomes one looks adorable. Maybe if I am feeling brave, I'll give that one a try - after doing your puzzle, of course!!
Honestly, your individual time is very impressive compared to the fastest team. They basically put in 10 hours ( 4*2,5 ) into this puzzle and you only 7,5!
Of course a team and competition setting makes the comparison more complicated than that but I think you did amazing for such a difficult dragon puzzle!
Not only that, but at the 2:30 check, she accomplished over half the work with a quarter of the manpower.
i didn't know ANYTHING about jugsaw puzzles but one day youtube recommendations decided that i should... and well here i am - doing my first ever puzzle. just wanted to say thanks to Karen, i really needed something new that could excite me!
That makes me so happy to hear!
I would actually start in the middle and focus on the dragon pieces. AND I have been walking by my Amazon box, aka THE puzzle, since Friday, debating whether I should open it now or wrap it and give it to myself for Christmas. Lol.
ooh what a hard choice!
dang, I gotta get more into puzzles with my kindergarten-aged son... He does like a good puzzle, though they're more like 15 pieces than 1500 😁
I did this puzzle a month ago. I'm not surprised to see you tackle it so similarly to my strategy. I did learn puzzling from you in the lockdowns
9:01 not her not knowing the word for seaweed
Hey, I really loved hearing the audio of you placing the pieces into the puzzle. So satisfying! DRAGON! (lol, I predicted that would be the codeword halfway into the video ... though I think it's more of a sea serpent than a dragon. But what do I know? 😅)
I just got my puzzle and it is BEAUTIFUL!!! I am so so excited to do this puzzle designed by you!!!
So much fun to see you tackle this again!
Love that image. Hoping your puzzle will be available in Europe soon.
Me too!
Those colors are beautiful, but 1,500 pieces is out of my league. Lol
Today is my birthday and my husband surprised me with your puzzle!!!! I can't wait to get started on it.
Happy birthday! What a great gift!
Happy birthday!!!
Happy birthday!
I particularly like the purple DRAGON in this puzzle.
This puzzle is so beautiful! I want to buy it now
Looking at the one handed puzzling technique!
Ha! I'm obviously binge watching your vids as you are getting comments from me on these older ones. This is such a pretty puzzle! I love the dragon but would have started with the squid most likely
Thank you for this video I really learn so much when watching you do a puzzle …I might have to put this one in my cart…the artwork is lovely
I just finished a 1000 piece puzzle in 7:31 and now I'm very proud of myself for almost keeping up with Karen for 1500. I've learned so much about puzzling from these videos! Can't wait to solve the 3000 piece puzzle (my first big puzzle) soon!
The clicking noise of the pieces snapping into place is oddly satisfying. 🧩🎶
Getting into the puzzle ASMR game with this one 💅🏻
Pairs is the most I can do. I’m currently working on a 3000 Ravensburger with a partner and, if you know each others strengths (I’m a ‘sorter’ & she’s a ‘picker’), it can work well but a team sounds too hectic. I wouldn’t know where anything was.
Daylight savings time makes it lighter later. It’s *lack* of it (i.e being in real time) that makes it darker earlier, and that’s presumably what you have there at the moment as it’s the Northern Hemisphere late autumn.
Loved the puzzle clicking sounds
I appreciate your hardwork of editing and doing puzzles at same time even with back pain I understand your pain "by reaching dragon" as I do some puzzles too at the moment I'm doing 3000 btw
Love the ASMR elements in this video, very satisfying (as is the editing style btw, well done)
Another great video! This underwater dragon puzzle looks way too hard. But, my Karenpuzzle puzzle arrived!!
What a beautiful puzzle I think you just woke up my do puzzles gene again. I'm watching how to do puzzles in a small apartment next. I never stopped buying puzzles though lol. Love your channel.
I think it "defeated" you because of the pressure and the nerves, even though you've been distracted recording.
The artwork for that puzzle and the others she’s done look really cool. I’m doing the most difficult jigsaw ever. Every piece has about 5-6 colours on. It’s a Gibson one called carnival. I’m on the lookout for a dragon jigsaw. 😉
Have fun! 😬😂
You’re amazing a 500 piece takes me days to finish. But I am learning by watching how you work them. ❤
Karen is SOO shady towards her teammates in these videos it’s hilarious
I'm sorry it came across that way. I went into the team competition as a learning experience and I'm thankful to all of my teammates for sticking it out and working together to get as much done as we did.
ALMOST AT 200K SUBS.....HYPE!!
If everyone got a friend to subscribe, we'd be there in no time!
I would definitely claim the botyom left with the red fish and sea weed if I was doing this as a team. But the Dragon would be fun too !
I got your Karen puzzle. Have not done it yet but will over Easter vacation for sure.
Queen of puzzles!! I've been talking about your videos to my friends so much, and recently you popped up one of their Tiktok feeds! It was so funny that she saw you after I've been talking about you so much bahaha
I hope they release Karen's puzzle in less pieces I don't think I could do 3000. Crossing my fingers
I would start with the red, the Dragon would come later.
Bought 4 puzzles at black friday sales, but none over 500 pieces. I know my limits. Almost done with the 1st. No dragons, but there's a unicorn!
technically each member of the team worked on the puzzle for 2 and a half hours, therefore the winning team collectively worked on it for 10 hours, which means you did it faster than them! kinda. sorta. in a round about way. not really. but i think that is a fun way to think about it!
I hate doing scales so I wouldn't do the dragon. I would work on the red parts or the mermaids' hair, maybe the tails, but like I said, I hate doing scales. I worked on a 1500 piece puzzle recently, and I estimate I finished it in 10-11 hours over 2 days. It was a Harry Potter puzzle which basically was a bunch of photos from the films. What made it easier was the fact that each film had a different colour and there was also a giant silver HP in the middle. Basically, I picked out certain colours and mostly completed each section before moving onto the next. VL
I probably would actually claim the dragon. I like a challenge. And I could be sure nobody else would have wanted that section. So I could take my time.
Ohh, interesting. Your time is just 6min less than what I needed for a 1000 piece puzzle that I also did over the course of 3 days (and finished today).
Thing is, usually I would consider myself a faster puzzler, and I did try to strategize and do this one quickly, but it turned out I received an evil puzzle in disguise.
A friend gave me a 1000 piece Anne Geddes puzzle with the "Sleepy Baby Mushroom" image, and the puzzle has a huge area of green that you need to solve by recognizing patterns. And the worst thing is, that the left halfs piece cut is repeated again on the right half. So I definitely understand why my friend gave up on this puzzle and even allowed me to keep it. This puzzle is 66% green with repeating cut so my expected 4h turned into 7.5h, which is still pretty good for what this puzzle was, but oh boi. It took me 2h for a proper sorting and to do everything that wasnt green and then 5.5h for the green part, applying even better sorting and also abusing the repeating pattern to finish one side and then look up what kind of shape I need on the other side, so I felt pretty good in my strategies. I wanted to do a little speed puzzling and ended up with a little challenge puzzling, so that was unexpected. :D
Oh a little note I almost forgot, I also took your advice to heart, that you shared while preparing for the puzzle competition, by looking at the box more often. I never look at the box, but if I ever wanna go to one of these competitions (what I would love to, but they are all far away from my location) then I still need to work on myself to look at the box more often, which wouldn't even have crossed my mind if you didn't say it a little while ago.
What a beautiful puzzle! Thank you for giving it another go and sharing your work.
Dragon
these are some satisfying piece sounds!
Karen I noticed most people during the competition tied their hair up or used something to keep the hair away from their faces. Is this something you would consider for another competition?
I literally can't even wait for your puzzle!! I'm so excited
Hello, Karen, I used to watch your art & design tutorial videos. it is the first time I stumble across this channel, really glad to meet you again! this process is so soothing to watch! I am also happy for you finding a niche market on TH-cam!
would love to get your puzzle, but it says it's unavailable!
It should be restocked soon! Keep an eye on my social media and my videos for an update.
Noooooooooo!! it say "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." Love from Denmark....
I definitely would not choose the mermaid/dragon as the first part to work on. I would probably start with the octopus.
This puzzle is so beautiful!! It's already in my Amazon cart!
Would you say you felt like time was..... dragon?
That looks like a really fun puzzle, even though I'm not a dragon fan.
Thanks for keeping the puzzle sounds. They are so unique and special. It's also fun video. Doing puzzles with one hand is so nice, especially when being ambidextrous as i am 😄
Did each team only get one copy of each puzzle? How did you decide who got to keep them?
I don’t know. I would probably pick a dragon.
Funny how you run your hands over the finished sections....I do that to and it's weirdly soooo satisfying 🤣 Love how your own 3000 piece is in the background...can't wait to get that one next year 👌👌
Dragon. We started your puzzle over the weekend, we have things sorted (hopefully good enough) and finished the border.
Great job!
Now that you've completed a competition and expressed how much more fun it is to complete puzzles as one, will you do another competition? The 'dragon' is my fav!