It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I do give up on a puzzle. A couple of times I’ve put it away to try again later, but in most cases, it’s definitely goodbye. Here are two examples:
I just couldn’t get the edges and the last bit of grey right. I tried many times, but in the end, it was no fun anymore, so back in the box it went. It’s really too bad, because I love Escher’s stuff, but all Escher puzzles that I’ve ever seen are horrible quality. Selegiochi is an Italian manufacturer, and I’m obviously not getting any more of their puzzles (I don’t know if they’re even active in the puzzle department anymore). It wasn’t cheap either. At least one person managed to finish this, though, since there’s a photo on the Jigsaw Wiki. I take my hat off to whoever completed it.
A more recent case, a puzzle I bought at a flea market. Arrow puzzles (UK manufacturer) are generally not good quality, but this was especially bad. You can see how the pieces wouldn’t stay flat. Again, I just couldn’t get the final bit of sky together. I took some of it apart and tried again, but pretty soon gave up.
When it’s no fun anymore is when you should give up. When there are so many enjoyable puzzles available, why do something you don’t enjoy?
Puzzler1909 
I agree, life is too short … you need to know when to quit …
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Absolutely!
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Totally agree!! And I think it’s even harder to admit it to yourself when your so far along… Loved reading this. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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I found it harder when I was younger, but the older I get, the more I do exactly as I please 🙂
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lol… good for you 🙂
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I’m currently working on a Heye Puzzle… Noah’s Ark. It has a lot of white pieces on the edges, I’m scared this could happen to me as well…. Hope not 🙂 (follow my instagram: @thefeelgoodfixproject I post a lot of the puzzles I work on) 🙂
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I’ve done that one (https://puzzler1909.home.blog/2019/08/24/noahs-ark-2016-01-13/)! The white area was a bit of a pain, but otherwise, I loved it. I did follow you on instagram, I’m always happy to see more puzzle photos.
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Quel dommage d’avoir interrompu ce puzzle si près du but, vous y étiez presque.
Je viens juste de terminer ce modèle aujourd’hui. J’ai eu tout le loisir de me pencher dessus pendant la période de confinement liée au coronavirus Covid19 que nous traversons actuellement en France. Le résultat est superbe et méritait bien ces efforts. Après cette crise, je le collerai sur un contre-plaqué en souvenir.
Pour information, il ne s’agit pas du tout d’un port méditerranéen mais de celui de la ville de Trouville-sur-mer en Normandie (France). Et je ne trouve pas du tout que ce puzzle soit de mauvaise qualité.
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Thank you for writing! Maybe there are different versions of this puzzle, or perhaps mine had been damaged in some way, by damp, for instance. Interesting to know that you can’t trust what it says on the box about what the image shows.
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YOWZA. That MC Escher puzzle looks crazy hard. All that gray-scale. There’s obvious shading nuances but still. YIKES. Hats off to you for getting as far as you did. It looks like you maybe only had 10% or so left.
With the sky on the second puzzle, since it was a flea market puzzle (not that there is anything wrong with flea markets) but I think you just bought a puzzle that had some kind of water damage or moisture issue and that made those puzzle pieces so swollen (??) and awful and ill-fitting.
P.S. I’ve never heard of Jigsaw Wiki, I didn’t click the link, is that site like the jigsaw puzzle community on Reddit? Maybe one or two days a week I visit and scroll through the photos. It seems to be a site like flickr, people just post photos of completed jigsaw puzzles. It seems that there are monthly challenges too around a theme, this month might be rainbows….
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jigsawpuzzles/
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Arrow is really not a good brand, but this was worse than usual, so it’s definitely possible there was some sort of damage.
The jigsaw-wiki is more like a database of puzzles, contributors (you need a login) can enter details of puzzles and photos, or edit existing puzzles. The goal is to have information on as many puzzles as possible. You can browse puzzles by brand, piece count, artist and so on. Since there are many German contributors, there are mostly European brands. I’ve found it a good resource. I haven’t been to the jigsaw community on Reddit, but I’ll definitely have a look at that!
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