Awesome Jigsaw Puzzles

Winter is coming. Cuddle up at home in front of the fireplace with a wooly Pendleton blanket and the Pendleton Patterns 1000 Piece Puzzle. The 25” x 20” jigsaw shows off Pendleton’s iconic stripe patterns from the National Park Collection, including Yellowstone, Joshua Tree, Crater Lake, Olympic, Acadia, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountain, and Zion.

Nervous System makes mathematically-generated accessories, jewelry, and puzzles. These unique jigsaw puzzles resemble the geometry of bismuth crystal formations. Each puzzle has a one-of-a-kind artwork is made from laser-cut maple plywood with digitally printed images. The finished puzzles measure about 11″ across and average 267 matrix-cut pieces.

These Time Warp jigsaw puzzles up the difficulty level by providing a different illustration on the box than what you’ll end up building. The trick is that the clue sheets and packaging show the scene during the daytime, but the puzzle takes place in the same location at night. There are currently five puzzle designs to choose from, each with 1000 pieces.

This unique wooden puzzle kit combines a jigsaw puzzle with an escape box. Completing each of its four puzzle sides enables its mechanisms to move and its locks to be opened. In addition to its base Pyramid of the Sun puzzle, expansion packs offer new jigsaws to assemble that sit atop its Aztec-inspired structure.

Do you like challenging jigsaw puzzles? This detailed monochrome image of gears should keep you busy for a while. The 1000-piece puzzle has precision-cut curved pieces that radiate out from its center. Unlike other circular puzzles we’ve seen, this one has no color coding or lettering on the back to ensure it remains difficult.

We’ve finally found Bigfoot, and it turns out the elusive beast is not what we thought it was. Actually, Sasquatch is just a bunch of cats smooshed together. This delightfully weird 1000-piece Catsquatch puzzle was illustrated by artist Shyama Golden, as part of Fred’s Artist Series.

Airportag expands its selection of air travel-inspired gifts with a series of jigsaw puzzles. There are two main themes: sectional maps of the airspace around airports and colorful grids of three-letter airport codes. Each puzzle measures 11″ x 14″ and has 252 pieces. Just don’t try and solve it on your airplane tray table.

Shane from Stuff Made Here has made machines that reduce the difficulty of basketball, pool, and golf. Now he’s built a robot which can look at jigsaw puzzle pieces, pick them up, spin them, and place them in the right location. It was a complex engineering challenge to make it solve even the simplest of puzzles.

Do you enjoy a challenge? This 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle is sure to test your brain cells (and patience). Featuring a vibrant and detailed image of puzzle pieces, you’ll struggle to figure out where the picture ends, and the actual puzzle pieces begin. To make things even harder, each of its pieces is incredibly tiny.

This fun puzzle was inspired by David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. Illustrated by Kev Gahan, the 500-piece puzzle features a scene of 1970s West Berlin filled with all kinds of colorful people, and Bowie scattered in the crowd in his various personas. There’s another Where’s Bowie? puzzle that takes place on the Moon.

While they’re not as cool as Simone Giertz’s puzzle table, we think Jumbl’s jigsaw puzzle boards are great. They provide a smooth work surface with an edgeless design for sliding puzzles off, along with drawers for storing pieces. They also make a portable version that folds up and holds your pieces on a felt surface.

Celebrate your love for our planet and our neighbors in space with these oversize puzzles from Chronicle Books. Measuring 2.5 feet in diameter, the kid-friendly 100-piece puzzles feature beautiful satellite images captured by NASA of the Earth, Mercury, Mars, and our moon.

Unnecessary Inventions’ playful coffee table offers a clever commentary on “some assembly required” furniture. When you want to use it as a table, you need to place all 91 of its pieces in the proper places. Its top is made from baltic birch, which sits atop an MDF grid and steel hairpin legs. Measures 40″ w x 20″ d x 16″ h.

Unidragon enlisted the illustrators of Japan’s IC4 Design to create detailed images that challenge puzzle builders to participate in a variety of quests. Adding to the design are unique puzzle pieces cut to match the outlines of the illustrations. The first four Quezzle puzzles can be combined to form an even larger world.

Do you put ketchup on everything? Well, now you can have some of Heinz’s delicious and versatile condiment in your jigsaw puzzle. All 570 pieces of this challenging puzzle are printed in the exact same glossy tomato red color.

Love the movies of the MCU? This enormous 3000-piece jigsaw puzzle from Aquarius will keep your mind occupied while celebrating the series from Iron Man to Avengers: Endgame. The finished puzzle measures 32″ x 45″, so you’re gonna need a nice big table to work on it.