It’s that time of year when love in the air and our thoughts turn to VD. Yes, it’s time again to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your special loved one on 14 February. To celebrate this special occasion, I ordered a love themed puzzle to share with my better half – Broken Heart by Techno Angels and Bozoou.
Broken Heart is a 2D packing puzzle from JIGSAWHOLIC, made with laser cut acrylic pieces and a plastic tray. The puzzle arrives in a plastic bag, which states that the level of difficulty is 6 out of 10 and that the goal is to put all 19 pieces into the frame. Seventeen of the pieces are black and two of them are red. The matte finish on the black pieces looks fantastic!
In the true Valentine’s spirit, I solved the puzzle with my wife. We both started putting puzzles pieces in the tray and in less than 5 minutes, we had all 19 pieces in the tray with an obvious piece missing. Opening the drawstring bag, we took out the final piece and added it to the tray. What gives? Where’s the magic? Where’s the Aha moment?
If you do enough puzzles, you realize that sometimes you just get lucky and stumble upon the solution right away and miss out on the brilliance of the puzzle. So I spent some time examining the pieces to find what I had missed. Unfortunately, I wasn’t smart enough to discover the genius behind this puzzle. I’m currently under the impression that the Aha moment is to realize that you need the configuration that we discovered at the beginning. There is a little effort to lead you away from this configuration, but there is an even greater pull to bring you towards it. To be fair, the website does warn that 30% of the people are not going to experience the “twist”. In the end, it’s a nicely made jigsaw puzzle that may help you score (some points) on Valentine’s Day.
If all you are looking for is a quickie on Valentine’s Day, a Broken Heart may be just what you deserve.
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