How to Solve a Solid Color Puzzle (Expert-Level Strategies)

Do you have any similar strategies that you use when tackling difficult puzzles? 🧩 Thank you for watching!

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I’m rewatching this video because it popped up on my feed. What I like to do is not only look at the shape of the ins and outs but also their orientation. For instance, the first piece you tried to find had the little out oriented more to the right than the left so that is also a detail I look for when I do puzzles like this

I’m so glad you’ve made up names for the different kinds of pieces. I’ve long thought that one of the things that makes jigsaw puzzles so challenging is that we don’t have words to associate with the pieces or their components so we have to keep a visual image in our mind of what we’re looking for instead of a word.

Best jigsaw puzzle video on the Internet. Thank you.

I have aloe swirl(1000 pieces)and m worried how to make it

I'm working on a frustrating puzzle right now. I'm too stubborn to give up. 😢

Im doing the 1000 piece museum collection mona-Lisa right now and the bottom part is mostly black and the oieces all look the same... i feel like im slowly going insane trying to complete it but im not giving up... I sortet the pieces by shape and an trying them all out... oiece by piece... someone help me pls lol

Did it bug anyone else that she was doing the solid puzzle upside down the whole time? 😂

Found your video because I'm currently working on a puzzle where about 25% of it is all the same color and unfortunately, the puzzle shapes are all the same! (Double box). It's so hard to finish but I love the image so I'm going to keep plugging away at it. I love your recommendation to pull out the joining piece to and bring it to your grid instead of picking up each piece for trial an error. I'm going to try that for the rest of this. Thanks for the advice, Karen!!

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I don’t understand how to seperate vertical amd horizontal puzzle pieces. All of them looks the same. Taller than it’s wide and when you turn them wider than its tall. 😂

Why do you bother sorting the pieces? Just let the pieces flow. I am no pro or even a noob when it comes to puzzles but I just sort of see the pieces and just let them come together. Sorting takes a lot of the fun away. Solve the puzzle like islands and let them flow together piece by piece. It wqas fun watching your channel for a while but you take all the fun out of it.

Had to have a good laugh at the poster picture they put in the box lol

As you mentioned it's interesting that they didn't come out with a solid blue puzzle. Thanks for the tips

you can turn any jigsaw into a solid colour puzzle by turning it upside down

i never thought i would discover this niche of puzzle gamers

Omg that heinz puzzle is awefull. I would hate pieces that are all the same. That‘s why I like to buy brands like Ravensburger. They always have unique shapes

Have one on impulse but it’s a 101 Dalmatian’s impossible puzzle 😔😔😭 with literally 0 experience

I imagine that solid color puzzles are really great for blind people who enjoy puzzling or enjoyed it before losing significant vision. Where puzzles have any kind of image, the cut may not be totally unique but the average puzzler wouldn't have to worry about false fits too much. But a solid color puzzle is pretty much guaranteed to have unique piece shapes, and theoretically someone who has absolutely no vision could do it by feel. I bet gradient puzzles are also pretty good for a lot of blind people if they have remaining vision that still alows them to see color. I think puzzling would still be pretty challenging, as are most things with limited/no eyesight. But it has the potential to be a very fun hobby that can be made accessible

Why are there letters on the back of puzzle pieces and do they have to go the same direction? I need help. I’m not getting a straight answer anywhere, just a lot of rabbit trails.

Wait a second. The editing and composition of this video is top notch!!

awesome videos!

Use all the same kinds of hints and strategies that you do. We named ours differently of course. Your castle is my humpback. The 4 in and 4 out is pinwheel and 4 banger. Our shortback is like the humpback without one nose. And of course, the common shape, which seems like the least shape used. My absolute favorite shape is the one I call running man. Some puzzles have the Z shape on one side. Enjoyed your whole video! And speaking of giving up on one....just feels like a failure even though it is too frustrating and not enjoyable. :)

Actually yeah. I am doing digital jigsaw puzzle and this made me realize i could be doing it so much easier than i am.

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Love your videos a lot!

My strategy is to check the box constantly. I'm amazed that you never or hardly ever do that.

Oh wow, I just started the Bluekazoo triangle puzzle yesterday! Someone gave it to me years ago, and after watching a lot of your videos I got inspired to try it. The colors are really hard for me to see correctly, so it’ll be a challenge. I love the tips in this video, I hope they come in handy.

I know this is a couple of years late, but you mentioned those who can't picture the shapes in their mind (aphantasia) and how they do puzzles. I'm a pretty casual puzzler and typically puzzle in group contexts. But when I do puzzle and there's a point where I have to go by shape rather than image reference, I organize my pieces much like yours, but also leave a gap because I take individual pieces that can qualify, and either try them or hold them over the spot, physically rotating them to see and use any not-needed ones in the gap space so I know what I've tried already. I've always referred to that as brute forcing it. As it can often mean trying EVERY PIECE. So a one-colir puzzle doesn't quite appeal to me, haha! If I don't have the space to have a gap, to know if I've tried a piece, I put it back down in its place, but rotated 90 degrees than my "standard" orientation. Then either rotate those back once I've found my piece, or rotate remaining ones to the new orientation, depending on how many are left.

EDIT: Just realized you discussed the brute force method later on and yeah, that's basically it! Didn't occur to me to just bring the connecting piece to the contending pieces so definitely going to try it that way in the future!

This brings back memories - my sister & I named the ribbon pieces when we were small. The standard we called "Tigger pieces", the double box we called "people pieces". The castle we called the "house piece", single box "one arrow", four in "four arrows" and four out "the square". We had words for flat pieces, too. I wonder if every set of puzzle loving siblings came up with unique puzzle words.

Hey you know what's even more fun? Being dragged into an ally and getting punched in the gut!

I sort by shape on pieces of cardboard that I can rotate, so I don't have to do all the rotating in my head.

Thank you for teaching me to sort separately the "long" pieces and the "wide" pieces, I didn't think of that. Blue.

Blue. I am 70 years old and have done a few puzzles in that time. Now that I have lots of time, I plan on doing more. I have always used the grid system. But what you taught me is the wide and the narrow pieces. I always saw the difference but didn't connect it with which way in the puzzle the piece would set. Thanks for teaching this old gal something new.

Thank you so much! Big motivation for me to get through the rest of big blue sky and snow filled beloved puzzle. I can't wait to organize❤

i think my head would explode if i tried a solid color. lol

When I've done round puzzles, I've sometimes started with the middle piece and worked outward because the first few pieces around the center piece are usually pretty obvious. But I still do the edge first most of the time on any puzzle, because it orients me to where the top/bottom/sides are. But I'm getting older now, and sometimes I resort to using a magnifying glass. Oh, and my favorite color is red, NOT BLUE!

I have a few puzzles where there is only one shape to all the puzzle pieces. Noe wouldn't that crazy in a single color.

Blue, thanks for all your ideas .

The puzzle I’m stuck on right now are all “standard” ribbon cut pieces every. Single. One. 😭

Thanks, I didn't think to organize the pieces by shape lol.

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You going to have a stress relief if you're doing wrong....

But stop doing puzzle makes you hard enough If you get too much puzzles

This video was a big help!!! You showed us how to narrow down and sort. There are some people that cannot see how pieces go together. It seems that it takes an analytical mind. Police detectives often like puzzles

I know this is an older video but it was super helpful for the puzzle I’m working on now. It’s my first 2000 piece puzzle and it’s a picture of a bunch of plants on a wooden table. It’s a lot of the same color and texture and it’s not easy!! But I’m not giving up 😃