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Jigsaw Puzzles<\/h1>\n

Real or virtual, there’s nothing like spending a winter’s day with a good, challenging jigsaw puzzle.<\/p>\n

Growing up there were always jigsaw puzzles in the house – square ones, rectangular ones, and even round ones! The cuts ranged from 500 pieces to 1000s. The method was always the same, find the outside pieces first then begin to fill in the centre.<\/p>\n

We always had a piece of plywood to put the puzzles together on and when we stopped because it was time to get a meal on the table, the loose pieces would be put back in the box (well maybe not all of them) and the board would get slipped under the couch or bed or some other out of the way place until it was time to work on it again.<\/p>\n

The beauty of virtual puzzles is, you don’t have to pack them up and put them away. They’re on your computer.<\/p>\n

This puzzle of Edinburgh Castle from the Jigzone<\/a> website, it shown at its default 48 piece cut, but you can go up to 247 piece triangles, if you feel up to the challenge.<\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a><\/p>\n

Jigzone allows you to embed jigsaw puzzles into your website or blog, but from what I’ve been able to determine, you can’t save your work-in-progress for another time.<\/p>\n

That’s the advantage that thejigsawpuzzles.com<\/a> has. Here you can save your puzzles, and expand the window to full-screen. This puzzle is cut into 250 pieces but if you don’t like the small window it’s in, you can click on the button on the bottom right and go full screen.<\/p>\n

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\u00bb More free online jigsaw puzzles at TheJigsawPuzzles.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

No matter which site you prefer to use, you’ll enjoy the selection of jigsaw puzzles, and the degrees of difficulty they provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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