The Weird and Wonderful Puzzles of 1986 | A Year in Puzzles
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
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I'm celebrating my birthday with a video dedicated to my birth year - 1986! Take a look at all the best, worst, and weirdest jigsaw puzzles of the year.
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This was so fun, please do other years 😊
OMG!!! HELL YEAH, IT'S A MADONNA YEAR!! long live the Queen 🌟
That silver pouch in "the geese" is glue and the blue foam to spread the glue over the puzzle.
Thank you!!! How did you know that??
@@puzzlephile Japanese and often korean puzzles still come with a packet of glue and a block of foam or a spreader!
@@puzzlephile I had a puzzle years ago that came with it. I think it had an instruction sheet on how to use it. I'll have to see if I can find it.
I´m only 20 years old, but I love watching these videos of older puzzles, just because it showes how the art you put on puzzles changed over this timeperiod. And also, I have no idea how HEYE is pronounced XD There is no "obvious" pronunciation
Glad to hear you like the old puzzles - I find them so fascinating!
Have a great birthday, or if it has already taken place, hope you had a great time. 🎂 That was an interesting look at puzzles in 1986. 🧩 A lot of puzzles then would have been boring photo type images of country houses or cottages, views from around the world and animals etc. I can't remember what puzzles I was doing in the 1980s. The very first adult puzzle that I remember was a Crown puzzle called The Italian Lake painted by Frank Mills which I received in 1966. Today's puzzles are much more interesting in terms of image and cut. We are spoilt for choice! 😃
Wysocki was the Thomas Kinkade of the 80s. Commercially successful artists are often disparaged. Good art allows the viewers to see inside the artists mind. Your videos are good art because you reveal the nature of your craft and your artistic vision..
Wow, thanks! And now I’m so curious who has done more puzzles, Kinkade or Wysocki
I was in high school and college in the mid 80s and a big puzzle fan. Springboks purchased mostly at Hallmark Stores or bookstores made up most of my collection. I definitely had that Dancing puzzle!
I also had a magic puzzle, which I think I still have in a box somewhere.
The Hallmark Springboks were the very very best in the 80s! I graduated high school in 1990. 🎉🧩 I still have some of the puzzles I bought back then!
I have the "boring" Milton Bradley puzzles, but that's what they were selling in the store near me in the 80's.
This was a fun video. I’d now be interested to know what kind of puzzles Gibsons had out in the 80’s.
I bought the rubik's magic puzzle a long time ago. I think, after buying it, I tried to assemble it, but gave up very quickly. A few months ago I took it out again and assembled it. It took me just over 4 hours for just 300 pieces. I suppose the fact that it is double-sided is a bit interesting.
My big question: Is the difference between the sides obvious? Can you easily tell the front vs the back?
@@puzzlephile No, it is not obvious which side is which. They seem to have cut it in 2 ways. Some innies seem a bit rounder on one side, but then the 2 outies on the same piece seem to have been cut the other way and be rounder on the other side. So the same piece seems to have been cut from both sides.
This video made me go look at my (limited) puzzle collection. Turns out I have four (!) Springbok puzzles, one of them the Jungle Birds on the insert page you found in your box. The others are probably from roughly the same era, late 80's into the 1990's. All purchased from thrift shops probably 20 years ago. And frankly, there were a couple of other puzzles on that sheet I would enjoy doing. I find current puzzle images to be either all a riff on the same theme or too challenging to consider. For the sake of reference, my children bracket you in terms of age (one born the year before, another the year after).
This is the year, when I was born, too 😁 THE.BEST.YEAR. Apart from Chernobyl. And I was born in July, too 😳 4th of July, to be precise. Now you're officially my favourite RUclipsr!
Objectively the best year to be born 👌
I like the puzzles from 88-92, when gradient dreamy puzzles was in. Clementoni and Schmidt had a lot of them ..... I still have some in my collection - and always try to get more
"Don't judge me..." Lol. Always love your approach to making your puzzling what you want it to be! Really fun video. It was cool learning about what sort of puzzles were out there in '86. Even though the heydays of Hallmark unsurprisingly brought us a slew of generic and insipid images, you managed to find and highlight some interesting ones. Happy birthday and thanks for sharing it with us through these puzzles!
Very interesting, you put a lot of work into that video, bravo.
Thank you very much!
Your video about puzzles in 1986 is so fascinating that it inspired me to go back to my birth decade (I won't specify the year - LOL) of the 1950s and look to see what puzzles were available. Oh my, not nearly as good as 1986. Really depressing except for seeing a few children's puzzles identical to or similar to what I had during my childhood. Sigh . . . Yes, I love the Springbok puzzles of the 1960s and 1970s.
That was a great video. Please go where your interests take you in the puzzle world and us with you👍
Incredible Edibles is right up my alley!
My dad had a Rubik's Magic. It worked a bit like a Rubik's cube but the tiles could be rearranged from three rings unlinked to three rings linked. I never managed to solve it.
Great video!! I have a jigsaw from 1982 that is a Charles Wysocki mosaic from Milton Bradley. The pieces are square cut random shapes that don't interlock (think Tetris shapes!). Another interesting one is a 1992 3D puzzle from Crystal Line, it is 3 flat almost all clear layers stacked on top of each other, with a small amount of image on each layer, you look into/through the layers to get the 3D effect. It also comes fully assembled and also is very difficult to pull apart the first time, the pieces are soft flexible plastic and are still slightly joined. I also owned the rubik's magic circle/loop toy - it is doubled sided like the jigsaw images, you had to flip the panels to get the loops side by side in a straight line, then change the configuration to get the linked loops on the other side.
Really good video 💗 I know the “quietly weep” feeling when working a puzzle! 😆 Yet, I keep going back for more 😄
"copylight" 😂 great video! Entertaining and informative. The amount of effort you put into these is obvious and I look forward to every new one. And what is up with the quality of food photography in 1986? Why are the colors so drab? The broccoli tree looks like something out of a faded 1960's cocktail party recipe book.
😆😆 You’re so right!
These puzzles are so great. I like to do older puzzles because to be honest... they are harder and good practise for the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships. Are you by any chance joining the Worlds in September?
I wish! Not this year
That butterfly puzzle behind you (over your left shoulder) -I just finished it. Found it to be fun and far more difficult than I predicted. I’m hoping you’ll do it and tell us what you think.
Thank you, this was not only fun but informative! I don’t think there were many interesting puzzles from the year I was born, too long ago😆
I won’t ask when you were born 😆 but I’d bet there’s something out there
Happy birthday; very much enjoyed this video. I recently saw a vintage springboc at the thrift store called "life's a beach." While I was quite amused by the image I didn't get it. All that sand would have been a nightmare.
Yeah, they’re not all winners. Still cool to find one in the wild, though
Greeting from fellow -86’er 😁
Hi my peer!
The perfect year to be born 👌😆
Super interesting concept! I should look into my birth year as well. I'm sure there are plenty of weird and wonderful ones.
Do it! So much fun 👍👍
Great video! I remember some of the puzzles highlighted. The Playboy puzzles are interesting. I've sent my husband on an internet scavenger hunt to find one for me. Playboy was iconic. I also want the Madonna True Blue and Wham puzzles. Wham.....swoon 😂
New viewer and very much enjoyed your content. Puzzle content is so fun. I am puzzling with a goal. We will be "wall papering" the ceiling of our hobby room. There are seven completed puzzles waiting to be glued. Can't wait!
Wow! What a fun idea! I don’t typically glue puzzles, but now you’ve got me thinking 🤔
Rocksaws is now making puzzles from album covers. And i totally agree, a lot are interesting but most are not good images for puzzles. I did get a Nick Cave one that was cool to do. Really nice quality, like a ravensburger.
Ooh I don’t know that brand, definitely need to check them out!
This is such a cool video Dan! I love the Springboks of the 80s! I have the Centennial Coca Cola Puzzle i bought in 1986! 😅 i would love to find the Crayola Freeway! I don't have my original anymore! It was such a fun puzzle though! I can't remember exactly what year Buffalo came out with the World's most difficult puzzles, maybe 1988? I found my first one at the Hallmark Store shopping for Springboks! 😂 this was a total walk down memory puzzle lane!
I love coming across puzzles from my past - you put so much time into them, they get seared into your memory
@@puzzlephile Agreed!! 🧩☺️
Cool Video - again! It must have been very hard to collect all that info...
I hoped that you might mention the Piatnik brand but didn't expect it. Too small a brand then and now... 😊
Piatnik has great puzzles - I didn’t know they went back that far!
Perhaps I will do a video about my vintage youth puzzles one time. Finding out the release years of those puzzles is hard, though, since there was no internet and the companies usually don't have their puzzle archive available to the public.
Some of my (500, 1000, 1500) puzzles might even date back into the seventies but surely are from the beginning of the 80s. Yes, I am that old... 😂
Wysocki was the Thomas Minister of the 80s.
First time watching and I'm glad I did. Subscribing, can't wait to see more.
Thanks so much! Welcome 😁
That was a fun video! Thanks for the great content.
Thanks! So glad you liked it!
Little correction Queen Elizabeth was 60 in 1986 (not 80).
Oh my goodness, of course! How many times did I watch that while editing and not notice!! 🤦♂️ haha Thank you!!
You: give intro
Me:wow this the the perfect video for me me
You: this is the neediest video I’ve ever done
Hahaha Nerdy is in!
Happy Birthday Month! 🎉 Very enjoyable video. Love seeing all the different brands. I’ve yet to try the Great American Puzzle Factory. Other puzzlers have told me it’s a great brand.
I love GAPF, wish they were still around. Nice tight fit and cool designs
I have quite a few of the great American puzzle factory puzzles. I especially like the where's waldo series. Thanks for the background info on them. Do you have any?
I have two Waldos that I featured in a video. That’s all right now, although I’m fairly sure I’ve done others by that brand in the past. Very nicely made 👍
What is the black and white swirl puzzle in the opening? I did that one when I was young. I would love to know about it. Who made it? When was it made?
It’s called Awful-Optic Round Puzzle by Bandwagon Mfg. but I haven’t been able to find any more info about it. (I’m also answering this question in this week’s Puzzling Life video!)
I heard it was HIGH-eh
Wow, that would not have been one of my top ten guesses
German native speaker here...that is 100% correct