Increasingly Difficult "Where's Waldo?" Jigsaw Puzzles! | Part 2 of 2
Vložit
- čas přidán 22. 05. 2023
- The exciting conclusion to my 2-part "Where's Waldo?" jigsaw puzzle series. With the 100-, 550-, and 1000-piece Waldos under my belt, it's time to take on The Beast -- the 3000-piece Where's Waldo puzzle from Aquarius!
.............................................................................
Links!
1000-piece Where's Waldo? (Aquarius): amzn.to/3Nz0ah9
3000-piece Where's Waldo? (Aquarius): amzn.to/3I0A2IL
(affiliate links)
Discounts for Puzzlephile viewers!
Get 15% off wooden puzzles from ZenChalet when you use code PUZZLEPHILE - zenchalet.com?aff=34
Get 10% off wooden puzzles from Unidragon when you use code PUZZLEPHILE - unidragon.com/?ref=fu0hhdvw
Follow me on Instagram to see what I'm puzzling every day! / puzzlephile
There is no way I'd continue on the 3000 piece with all those issues... you really are a trooper for getting it done & giving it a passing mark!
It was still fun! And they’ve got the market cornered for giant Where’s Waldo puzzles, so it’s not like I can recommend a different one 😆
You are so brave! I would have quit when I saw only one puzzle shape.
😆 Believe me, I wanted to
Wow you must have an amazing amount of patience and stamina to tackle that puzzle!!!
This puzzle looks so discouraging but it's so satisfying as it's put together!
It felt like I was getting nowhere until around 17 hours in, that part was rough
Missed opportunity to show us the piece with Waldo on it! Did you find him? Lol
Oh gosh, I totally forgot to do that! I did it on the first three puzzles. Well, I showed you where Odlaw was at least!😆
He's at 7:47 just under the ship.
Wow - good job. I did a 500 piece "Where's Waldo" I found it fun but a lot of my friends said they would never tackle it. 3000 pieces is a monster.
Dan, you deserve a medal for doing all those Waldo puzzles! Glad you muscled your way through it! Great job! :0)
Thanks! I think I deserve a medal too 🏅😆
Really enjoyed the Waldos! I always enjoy your critiques of the puzzles and manufacturers too. 👍
Another awesome video! Loved the whole Waldo project and all your thoughts about puzzling. Bravo on finishing all of them and thank you for sharing the experience with us!
Thank you!
Its almost as if they created a novelty puzzle that they didn't actually expect anyone to try to complete.
Your resilience is admirable. Well done👏
I give you major props for doing all the puzzles!!! I like how real you keep it about the piece quality!!
I try to show you the good, the bad, and the ugly (like that wonky edge piece!)
Well done !
Congratulations
That single edge piece not properly fitting would have ruined this puzzle for me. Kudos on actually finishing it!
One of the weirdest things I’ve encountered
Wow that was something 😂. I admire your patience! Also, Odlaw in French is "Pouah" which is kind of weird now that I think about it lol. When I was young, Pouah was my favorite for some reason 🤷🏼♀️😂
I did a 500 piece Star Trek puzzle from Aquarius and I had so many false fits and I could also see a lot of pixels. It sucks because they have so many cool images but the quality is not great.
Another wonderful presentation. Love the segments like Puzzle Math. Camera work is so good. The story of the puzzle and the technical details are enjoyable. I agree about how puzzles make one slow down and appreciate the details of the artwork. 👩🎨
Thanks! I’m planning to bring back Puzzle Math soon 👍
always entertaining..... you are a brave man..... I would not attempted to do the 500- 1000 or the 3000... of wheres waldo..... but was happy to go on the adventure with you......loved the math segment.. tooo funny....
I have plans for some more Puzzle Math coming soon (geometry!)
I’ve noticed that Aquarius puzzles don’t come with posters. I’ve done 2 Aq puzzles, a little 100pc that just came with a 2x4” baseball card sized mini pic, the other just relied on the box image for a 1000pc Nickelodeon Characters Collage. I don’t plan on buying Aq puzzles again due to lack to poster, overly glossy texture, and 2x2 in/out single cut piece size bugging the hell out of me. There were a lot of repetitive colors, poor outlines, colors that didn’t quite match the box art but was still same placement. Aquarius puzzles to me are just inadequate and untrustworthy.
Absolute madman for finishing this one. I would have stopped once I saw every piece was 2 in 2 out 😂 i recently finished the 2000 piece buffalo pokemon stained glass puzzle and my piece management consisted of just sifting through the box and grabbing certain colors. Would not reccommend. Thats a great term for it! Thanks for the video!
I’ve never been able to do the box sifting thing, but lots of people swear by it
Ours has the same issues with the bottom piece with the purple and green
Thanks Dan.. For mention "Holger" from Denmark ❤
👍 Tina, Denmark 🇩🇰😊
I hope my pronunciation was okay!
At about 8:00 you nailed all the issues I had when I worked this puzzle. I took photos of the box on my iPad and zoomed in. I only worked it to completion because I didn’t want it to beat me; I wanted the win!
That iPad trick is a good idea, I’ll have to remember that!
Wow! I did the 3000 piece Aquarius "Peanuts" puzzle and I loved it. Varied piece cut and it came with a poster. No fit issues at all. Kudos for finishing this. I'm not sure I would have!
Nice to hear about the quality. I have considered that one many times but after the Waldo one I keep passing it up.
@@annesnyder3909 It was an impulse buy at TJ Maxx last December. I couldn't pass it up for $14.99! The nice thing about the Peanuts one is the background. Since it's all comic strips there are no big solid areas to deal with.
I guess I’m learning that you never know what you’re going to get from Aquarius!
Hi, I'm new subscriber and I love your channel.
Can you please do a tour of the puzzles on the shelves behind you?
The Galison Rainbow Crystals on the middle shelf in particular? Have you done it already? Can you please show some footage?
I have done the Crystals puzzle and it was really fun! The pics are in my Instagram, but I didn’t do any video of that one unfortunately
You are a champion! I did the 550 and that was enough Waldo for me!
The Land of Waldos or another one?
@@puzzlephile Yes, the Land of Waldos. Then after that I did a Ravensburger Challenge Smurf puzzle and that was even harder for me. I’m really enjoying your channel. Thanks for the fun content.
Great job on the 3000 pc Waldo. I bought that one and didn't get past the boarder. I emailed Aquarius asking about a printed poster. They sent me a picture via email in return so I could enlarge areas to see better. I definitely had trouble with that beige/yellow top edge. You have inspired me and someday I will pull it out again!
Yay, give it another shot! I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere until about 17 hours in, but the second half was very rewarding
It's time to put it together now
Same size pieces - put me in a straight jacket with a helmet and off I go to my rubber room. Good job finishing and maintaining your sanity.
It should be illegal
Mental note - avoid Aquarius. I HATE identical piece cut puzzles XP
Wow! Amazing effort, I would have given up :)
About that one edge piece not fitting, that piece was probably from the puzzle that was cut just before yours. That piece got unjammed, and the piece of your puzzle stayed in the cutting frame.
Oh I hadn’t thought of that! Thank you, I hated not having any reasonable explanation for it
Well done for getting this jigsaw done, even if it was a slog at times. A shame that some of the pieces didn't fit properly. One way to get a larger image would be to either scan it or take a photo and then print it so that it comes out a bigger size than on the box. Can be helpful with a busy image like the Waldo ones. My jigsaw size limit is 1000 pieces as I just don't have the room to do anything bigger.
Now why didn’t I think of that! Good tip for the future 👍
I found this very interesting. I have done this exact same Waldo puzzle. Mine came with a poster and the pieces were different shapes with no false fits. Not just two ins and two outs. The quality was good.
How bizarre! Did the box look the same as mine?
@@puzzlephile yes. The exact same box as well
Same brand as well.
Im working on a 3000 aquarius puzzle also rn. Its nickelodeon characters, which is super busy but luckily each character is very distinct. But like this one, only 1 piece shape and the sorting is exhausting. I'm calling it my summer project lol
Ooh I’m curious to hear how you enjoy it
In Brazil is Wally
Dan, you are such a puzzle nerd! I love your channel and I learn something new from every video. Congrats on finishing the all the W puzzles. Did you find Waldo in the 3000 piece?
I did find him (this one was easy) but I guess I had too many other thoughts about this puzzle, because I totally forgot to show him!
damn good job! I get so discouraged just sorting out a 1000 piece puzzle and you're over here solving a 3000 piece one, kudos to you man. (also did you find Waldo on the 3000 one?)
I did! I forgot to show it, but I swear I did 😆
Dan, I just recently subscribed to your channel a couple of days ago. Never, would i ever… make this puzzle! Kudos to you for choosing this image and completing it. I am really enjoying your style and personality. I was so happy to see you hold the box of Buffalo Games “Bubbles of Color”. I just bought that a couple weeks ago and haven’t made it yet. Now I’m wondering why you haven’t finished it. I’m hoping I won’t be disappointed with my purchase. I know others have commented that you didn’t show us where Waldo was. I’m hoping you remembered to look!! Aargh!! 😅
I also bought it recently.
I did the 1000 piece version and loved it.
Thank you for letting me know. 1000 piece puzzles are my usual go to but I want to push myself out of my comfort zone and try the 2000. I think it’s very beautiful 😊
I just let myself get distracted by other puzzles (mostly Waldos 😆) I have finished it now and I enjoyed it a lot. The water drops add an interesting element to the gradient. Tip: you can use the shadows and highlights on the drops to figure out which way is up! I was way too far into the puzzle by the time I realized that
Thank you for the tip!!
Wow! What a puzzle! For me, it’s a shame it was lacking in quality in the cut and a good poster for reference would have been nice. I appreciate when a puzzle company has good clarity in image for large piece counts.
I still enjoyed it, but when you’re putting in such a big time investment, you definitely wish the manufacturer had put in some effort as well
These kinds of busy images aren't my thing. This reminds me a lot of the puzzles made from the art pieces from Jan van Haasteren (a Dutch artist). I did a 500 piece one of those my grandma lend me and was like: never again.
Give me all the Josephine Wall art pieces with whimsical art and weird textures or a good set of rainbow gradients or even a starry night sky, but not this.
This was satisfying to see come together. What did you end up doing? Finish the gradient or get a new board?
i love doing the vintage seed catalogue puzzles, i just wish there were more. especially the floral ones. so pretty to look at that i glue them and turn them into posters to hang on my walls (im quite into florals and my walls are bright salmon so the flowers look very cute with the theme)
I bought a new board 😆 I did finish Drops of Color later, but I didn’t want it to slow me down with the 3000
i am really on the fence to biy this one, I like Waldo but I have read bad review about this one, do you recommend?
I did enjoy it, and I’m glad I finished it, but there were a lot of quality issues so you have to go into it knowing that the puzzle may not be perfect.
The quality of that 3000 pc puzzle is just wrong. Large piece puzzles are not cheap to begin with, then to have all those quality issues?!?! I give you lots of credit to not just continue that puzzle but to FINISH IT!!! Great job!!! Yes it's time for a break from Waldo!!!
This one is actually not all that expensive, which should have tipped me off as to what I was in for!
ugh, I would have tossed this seeing 2x2 ha!
You know I wanted to 😆
This puzzle would annoy me with the pieces being similar and the outside piece that doesn’t fit!
*Removes from wishlist *
This puzzle is viciously disappointing! And it looked like so much fun before I saw this video, it's been on my wishlist for months ;.;
It WAS fun, I’m glad I did it… and I wish everything about it was better 😆
Dude! You couldn't PAY me to do that 3,000 piece puzzle! Did you end up buying another board to build it on or scrap the color bubbles puzzle?
I bought another foam board 😆 I did finish Drops of Color later, after this video was finished
Aquarius puzzles have garbage quality control. Last one I did was 1k pieces and it still had ones that didn't align correctly.
So hit-and-miss, it’s crazy!
You didn’t show where Waldo was in this one
I totally forgot this time! He was easy to find in this one, too
All the same shape back 8n box
I would have nope-d out of this puzzle after seeing only 1 shape, and Im not one who relies too heavily on piece shape.
Also, Im not a fan of this puzzle brand.
Your channel name scares me just a little
17:37 you are rounding both the piece counts and the time spent. but in math you should not round intermediate numbers.
czcams.com/video/vXWvptwoCl8/video.html
or if you do that, at least display the end result with only one digit after the decimal point
Your video is too high quality for the low views.
From your lips to the algorithm’s ears 🙏😆
Avoid Aquarius puzzles. Horrible quality.