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50 Of The Hardest Puzzles That Are So Entertaining To Start Yet So Difficult To Finish
What is it with humans that makes us love to take on a challenge at our own leisure? Like, instead of spending a rainy day lying on our back and looking at the ceiling, we choose to do something that terrorizes our brain a good deal? You know, like grabbing a carton of pieces from the world's hardest puzzle, pouring them all out, and submitting ourselves to the challenge. When you think of it, it does sound kinda weird, right? Well, weirdos or not, we share the passion for hardest puzzles, and this is our list naming some of the cool jigsaw puzzles you'll have a hard-yet-pleasurable time assembling.
As you're about to see, these jigsaws aren't just hard because of their weird-shaped pieces. They are hard because of the images they display, too. Take, for instance, the jigsaw puzzle depicting intersecting lines. Like a million of them! Or the brainteaser puzzle where you have to assemble a gorgeous image of very charming fried beans. Now that's truly something!
So, get ready and scroll on down below to check out our submissions to the title of the hardest puzzle ever! Have you assembled any of them? If so, do let us know in the comments! And hopefully, you'll still find some new and cool puzzles to torture your brain with.
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#1
The Pixel Challenge
A B C the Third 3 years ago
Yeah... no. Absolutely not. I want to keep that bit of sanity I have left.
Very bored 3 years ago
Little help, they divide a puzzle into sectors with letters and put it on the back so it's a bit easier at the same time you don't have to ise the letters so it's both for people who are better and a bit worse at puzzles
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#2
1000-Piece Cmyk Color Gamut Jigsaw Puzzle By Designer Clemens Habicht
#3
Twisted 3D Colorful Squares Puzzle
#4
Infinite Galaxy Puzzle
#5
Moon Jigsaw Puzzle
#6
Natural Grass
#7
Krypt
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
Single solid colour is actually easier than shades of the same colour or lots of tiny details, like waves.
#8
Bookshelf Dam
#9
Mars
#10
Starry Night Over The Rhone
FlamingoPanda 3 years ago
Friend has a similar one, we have been pecking away at it for months now
#12
Geometric Colorful Mandala
#13
The Lines
#14
Rainbow Gradient
#15
Purple Succulents
#16
Beverly Micro Pure White Hell Jigsaw Puzzle
novasoup (she/her) 3 years ago
i mean, it looks pretty repetitive... seems like itd be more tedious than difficult
#18
In The Hive
#19
Nebula Galaxy
#21
Dalmatians
#22
Forest In Black And White
#23
Optical Illusion
#27
Astrology
Argle Bargle 3 years ago
Ok, has anybody else just added a whole pile of new puzzles to their shopping lists, and then can't decide which is the best one to actually get, and has just defcided to buy them all? Just me then.
#31
Feather Fractal Artistic Design
#33
Zentangle Dragonfly
#34
Aurora
#36
Almond Blossom
#37
Flowing Rainbow Lines
#38
Map Of The Universe
#39
Gradient Jigsaw Puzzle
#41
Where's Waldo?
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Am I the only nimrod who sat for twenty minutes trying to find Waldo? I'm coming back once I find my glasses.
#42
Natural Forest
#44
Colored Cubes
#45
Pencil Collage
#49
Metropuzzle Chicago
#52
Mickey Mouse And Friends
#53
Blooming Color
#55
Historical Map Of The World
#58
Sistine Chapel
#59
Pirate's Map
#62
I11usion
#64
Starry Night
#67
Black White Striped Lines
#72
‘Impossible’ Transparent Puzzle
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
That’s a hard nope from me! 🤣 (And I’m a puzzle geek! But I’d be hurting someone by the time I finished…)
#75
Retro Lace Mandala
Helen Waight 3 years ago
I’ve embroidered a lot of things that are similar to this and it can really mess with your eyes when you look away after an hour!
#76
Butterfly Kisses
spiritual ninja 3 years ago
i have one of these, it is one of few puzzles that i like redoing every few years
#79
Natural Sand
#86
Colour Boom Collage
#87
Retro Art Squares
#88
Butterfly Migration
#89
Houseplant Jungle
Monique Reed 3 years ago
Start with the leaves there is one of--maidenhair fern, pink begonia, Dizygotheca...
#95
Space Explorers
#108
The World Of Sherlock Holmes
#110
Buncha Masks
#111
The World Of Cats
#112
Chekered Pattern
#121
Evolution Of Military Aircraft
Monique Reed 3 years ago
I swear my aircraft nut husband and his aircraft nut buddies could do this without the cover. "Oh, look! It's the nose of a P-38"
#142
Donut Shop
Monique Reed 3 years ago
When you lick the pieces, they warp and don't fit together so well...
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SOPHIA BARTLETT 3 years ago
I CAN FINALLY SHARE! a year or so ago i bought a set of three 1000 piece puzzles. the pieces together made three funky shaped pieces of the total puzzle. when you finished, there was a bonus packet where you had to shift the three giant pieces to make a space in the middle which is where you put together the bonus puzzle, which made a new picture! i had so much fun. i know one of the puzzles was called the happy isles and one was the happy(or sunny?) city
BakedKahuna 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing! That's definitely on my list now
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
I’ve done a few of these, and loved them! The solid color ones are a hard pass, however. I’m not THAT masochistic! 🤣
Monique Reed 3 years ago
My mother is a puzzle fiend. We tried everything we could think of to come up with a puzzle that would take her more than a day. The one that was just silver rainbow-holograph mylar slowed her a bit. One year I mixed three puzzles together (after taking out all but four corner pieces) so she had to do three at once. But the one she cursed us most for was a photo taken in rustic cider cellar--gold sunlight with dust motes, golden brown wood, golden apples, etc. Basically all shades of the same color. She could only work on it for about an hour a day when the natural daylight was *just so.*
Mila Preradović 3 years ago
I bought this beautiful 1500 puzzle, Mykonos at sunset, as a therapy when the second earthquake that year hit my country. Took me and my 6-yo about two weeks to finish. When it was done there was one extra piece, a double one. I couldn't stop thinking about some poor soul, sometimes, somewhere, who could never finish their puzzle becsuse I had their last piece🙈
Ns Slavgorodskaya 3 years ago
Some of the puzzles are a real challenge, some are not difficult at all. Gradients are easier, than everyone thinks. ps. It would be great not to include knockoff/unlicensed puzzle into a legit list. We shouldn't support such business.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
I have a jigsaw puzzle that is a musical score. It is a headache and a half to solve!
Mary Ann Burgess 3 years ago
I helped a friend do a 1000 piece puzzle of coffee beans! Took almost forever to finish!
Claire Nasa 3 years ago
I completed a 6000 piece of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. It took several months to complete. It's glued to a large piece of acrylic and hanging on my wall
Chris Osborn 3 years ago
These make me want to start doing puzzles again. First I have to get a table...
Sinkvenice 3 years ago
I own this puzzle and it is HARD! https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN228568
Ada Hunter 3 years ago
my brother has one that’s starry night but each of the pieces has a nasa picture on it
SOPHIA BARTLETT 3 years ago
I CAN FINALLY SHARE! a year or so ago i bought a set of three 1000 piece puzzles. the pieces together made three funky shaped pieces of the total puzzle. when you finished, there was a bonus packet where you had to shift the three giant pieces to make a space in the middle which is where you put together the bonus puzzle, which made a new picture! i had so much fun. i know one of the puzzles was called the happy isles and one was the happy(or sunny?) city
BakedKahuna 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing! That's definitely on my list now
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
I’ve done a few of these, and loved them! The solid color ones are a hard pass, however. I’m not THAT masochistic! 🤣
Monique Reed 3 years ago
My mother is a puzzle fiend. We tried everything we could think of to come up with a puzzle that would take her more than a day. The one that was just silver rainbow-holograph mylar slowed her a bit. One year I mixed three puzzles together (after taking out all but four corner pieces) so she had to do three at once. But the one she cursed us most for was a photo taken in rustic cider cellar--gold sunlight with dust motes, golden brown wood, golden apples, etc. Basically all shades of the same color. She could only work on it for about an hour a day when the natural daylight was *just so.*
Mila Preradović 3 years ago
I bought this beautiful 1500 puzzle, Mykonos at sunset, as a therapy when the second earthquake that year hit my country. Took me and my 6-yo about two weeks to finish. When it was done there was one extra piece, a double one. I couldn't stop thinking about some poor soul, sometimes, somewhere, who could never finish their puzzle becsuse I had their last piece🙈
Ns Slavgorodskaya 3 years ago
Some of the puzzles are a real challenge, some are not difficult at all. Gradients are easier, than everyone thinks. ps. It would be great not to include knockoff/unlicensed puzzle into a legit list. We shouldn't support such business.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
I have a jigsaw puzzle that is a musical score. It is a headache and a half to solve!
Mary Ann Burgess 3 years ago
I helped a friend do a 1000 piece puzzle of coffee beans! Took almost forever to finish!
Claire Nasa 3 years ago
I completed a 6000 piece of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. It took several months to complete. It's glued to a large piece of acrylic and hanging on my wall
Chris Osborn 3 years ago
These make me want to start doing puzzles again. First I have to get a table...
Sinkvenice 3 years ago
I own this puzzle and it is HARD! https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN228568
Ada Hunter 3 years ago
my brother has one that’s starry night but each of the pieces has a nasa picture on it
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