Congratulations on the 6000 subscribers ❤ I really love the fact you don't feel the need to rush through the puzzles, or your videos - we get to feel your enjoyment of the process. Puzzling for me is meditative, i can enjoy other people's need for speed, but personally i appreciate the finished results more if i have taken my time and not felt any pressure to get it done within any time limit. Mind you, i do feel very deflated if pieces are missing, lol.
Hi Paisley!! Thanks for enjoying this pace and puzzle! I got to a stage where I cant rush my videos anymore, it's becoming an issue for me, so I will just take my time and if viewers want to stay they will stay and watch! if they need fast rushed through videos there are millions of other channels ut there! funny enough I dont really mind if the pieces are missing, I know it can be frustrating, but I dont worry much about it, I think it is irritating if we get stuck on a piece that is not even there! haha thanks again for the feedback! really appreciate it mate!
Ric, excellent puzzle. It is beautiful. I truly enjoy the music choice for your videos. Very fun. I do pay attention to the small details in the pieces and I love random cut shaped pieces too. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and history of the puzzle with us🧩🥰❤️Good times!
Hi Candlechatbliss! Thats nice to hear. I am getting tired of having to rush everything because ‘no one has time anymore’ i also prefer a more relaxed video. 👍🏻😁
I love the end final thoughts, you seem so genuine and relatable. Thank you for sharing. I didn't know much about you before, now I can build a better profile of who you truly are.
Looking very nice mister, I'm surprised you took so long to complete this jigsaw but if you work all day I can totally relate. I have been working on a jigsaw for several weeks now with no sight of the end. Great video, I think you are onto something big and wonderful. I'm your biggest fan.
Hi Mandalas! So we have something in common: lack of spare time to puzzle away uh😁 wish days were longer hahah thx for the comment mate, and for the support!
Yayyyy 6k!! I remember when I was one of your 60 subscribers 😁. The image on this puzzle is a bit intimidating. But I always remind myself, its one piece at a time. I'm a super sorter also, very organized, shape, then color for section, then resort, subsidy lol. You get the picture!!! The puzzle is worth it, if you enjoy the image!
Hi Leatrice! That’s good to know you are also a super sorter, oh my i totally relate! sometimes i feel like i might be scaring people away but im on s mission to stick to my shtick! Thank you for the feedback and for the congrats , i remember your first few comments snd i will cherish that , thanks again!
Great! And congrats 🎉 Instead of felt i use smooth flannel or finely woven but firm cotton such as muslin to line my box trays. Not as sticky but it won't pull up as easily! Yeah...we gain a lot of patience and persistence doing this stuff, right? 😂
Hehe yes we do become better humans by doing puzzles, instead of counting to 10 on stressful situations we probably count to 100 😂 i heard flannel is a good material to work with indeed! I might actually try it some time!! Thanks for the awesome tip!
Hello Ric. Congratulations on your 6000 subscribers. Keep up the amazing job. By the way, I love your puzzle trays. I would like to have something like that. Question, what type of table you use for your puzzles? Have we wonderful weekend.
Hello Hector and thank u very much! That table is my dining table, it’s an old wood table and because i had serious back problems, i had to lift it to almost 1.2m high using large wooden chops under each leg - the whole thing is hilarious 😂 i moved it to the back room which is my big dog’s bedroom literally (very messy room!) but it’s where i get all day light. Perfect spot. The trays oh the trays! I made a video for my older channel, i should post that here too, stay tuned!
Congrats on the subscribers! 🎉 Great video once again. 😊 You always have such great ideas on techniques to help solve puzzles. You got many hours of puzzle enjoyment for a cheap price! ❤ Happy Puzzling, Ric!
Hi Ric, congratulations on 6000 subscribers!!! Thank you again for reaching out! It is very interesting to see the different types of puzzle content we create. This puzzle is really cool, but like you said, the colors are all pretty beige. Amazing job on completing it! As for the felt on your puzzle trays, I can really relate since the mat I puzzle on is felt as well, so I have trouble cleaning off all the puzzle dust in between puzzles.
Hi Kat! thanks for taking a few minutes to check this out! so nice of you! been working on this forever heheh, still keen on doing a collar vid some time in the near future! I love checking other puzzlers on RUclips, there are puzzles around I never imagined existed!!! indeed the Felt is a bit of an issue, I tried the felt mat and hated it! haha it looked very dirty all the time hehe
Greetings Ric, congrats on the subscribers. This is an excellent example of perfection. The puzzle is great and the video production makes me want to buy the same puzzle. I have been to Chester in 2018 and throughly enjoyed it.
Hi mate! That is nice to hear tou have been to Chester, looks like a fascinating little town, been watching a few yt tour vids, very cool place! And hey thanks for the feedback on the vid, i appreciate that.
Congratulations on getting to 6K subscribers and getting that puzzle finished. 👍 The old Waddington puzzles had interesting cuts but sometimes there were areas of similar colours which made them hard to do. I did some Waddingtons Famous Trains jigsaws years ago and they were not easy! They were reproductions of stamps which came out in 1985. The border takes some time to do never mind the rest of the puzzle. If you Google Waddingtons Famous Trains jigsaws you will see what I mean. These types of puzzles are slow and steady, little and often. I was somewhat amused to see that you were giving chips! to your followers!!!! The subtitles can be a real hoot at times or totally baffling. 🦉🤔
Hi PuzzlePiece! Thanks for the congrats, i appreciate that very much! indeed i do know exactly the puzzle you are talking about! I completed the same puzzle years ago, and ot took me like forever as well! The frame was a 90 min job i remember well. Omg was i giving chips lol 😂 oh my! Hahaha
Haha hi Thegoodchicken! So cool to know im not alone! I love the nothingness of those challenging areas 😁👏 what i dont understand is a lot of the people i see complaining about those sky parts are happy to do single colour puzzles like the kryptic metallic ones. It’s conflicting 👏
Kryptic are not for me, but the slight variation of colour in sky is really interesting. Great channel, I’m viewing from Dublin, Ireland so just up for commute to work and had to get my jigsaw fix by watching your video 😀
Oh mate that is so so cool! Irish folk tales was my favourite subject in high school, i used to know ‘the playboy of the western world’ by heart 😂 big cheers mate, glad to know you enjoy my videos.
What a lovely puzzle. well done on completing it. I know I’d struggle with it because of the similarities in colours. I get you when you say pieces with many details or colours on it. I have abandoned a puzzle like that, which is a shame, but puzzling is supposed to be enjoyable. I live in the U.K. and I’ve never been to Chester. 😊
Hi 50s!! So nice to hear from you again. And you live in the UK, how awesome! i hope i haven’t embarrassed myself too much here 😂 my knowledge of the country is very rudimentary 😁😁 similar to you, i started a puzzle called ‘st ives’ also a place in the UK, by gibsons and i had to give up! Every piece was a carnival of colours and they drove me insane! 😅😅
Wow have you been there?! I watched so many videos about it! Thats my top place to visit in the UK, it looks very much like devonport here in nz. But of course much older. Haha carnival uh? We are reading minds now 😂
I can relate to the difficulties you experienced with this puzzle. We're just finishing a 750 piece, The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. It was very difficult for similar reasons as yours. Resolving the short bush strokes of similar colors made it the hardest and most time consuming puzzle we've done yet. Still rewarding though. Congratulations on 6,000!!
Hi Drew, oh my, starry night - i have heard this is one hard to complete puzzle regardless of size or puzzle count! Good to know you are finishing and are still sane after it. It is really incredible how much we underestimate these puzzles isnt it? I have fallen into the trap of thinking ‘oh yeah that will be a piece of cake, easy’ and find out it’s as close to impossible as it could ever be! Haha happy puzzling!
@@RicPuzzles At one point I tied to talk my wife into quitting the puzzle for the fist time ever. Starry Night has to be the next most difficult thing to a solid color puzzle. I'd look at the pieces and my mind would just go blank. I think all the pieces I fit were by their shape, not the artwork. I was actually using some of your shape descriptions to find the fits. The way Van Gogh used short strokes of colors made it difficult, as often two pieces that fit didn't share any colors in common. Sometimes I had to turn the pieces over to confirm it wasn't a false fit. The original artwork hangs not all that far from where we live, we may make a trip to go see it now that we spent so much time studying it . . .
Damn that sounds like some of my previous failed experiences too, i know the feeling well. I do have a mini 200 puzzle of the starry night, now i am worried because the pieces are a quarter of normal size snd require tweezers, i can only imagine how difficult that will be. Thanks for sharing this experience, it will certainly come handy!
Congrats on your 6k subs! It seems to me that this puzzle was rendered more difficult by the shape of the prongs. They all look very similar and teardrop shaped. It's one less distinctive feature that you can use when doing solid colour sections. What's very popular in the puzzling community these days are puzzles with bright saturated colours, sharp lines and clean transitions between the elements of the image but this puzzle was anything but. I also enjoy puzzles with a muted colour palette and a more delicate image. It feels more relaxing to me. Almost like puzzling a dream.
Hi FellowPuzzler, it's so reassuring to know you enjoyed it, it is a real treat indeed to work on puzzles that are less saturated, less divided. I know what you mean, I like those big bright puzzles but I cannot afford any at this stage in my life. I have seen some breath taking puzzles on Instagram, there is a puzzler called The Puzzling Lamb and her puzzles are AMAZING. but im sure she is spends thousands of dollars on new puzzles which I prefer to spend on more pressing things. :-) glad to hear you see puzzles as a therapy, likewise, this is always the Me time I need!
@@RicPuzzles Ah yes, @a_puzzling_lamb. I have been following her channel for a while. She's got great tastes and I find the way she edits her video refreshing. It's also another channel where I found refuge from all the speed puzzling content out there. 😉
Thats cool mate, and hey glad to hear that other puzzlers also enjoy the relaxed vibes. More and more i come across people who think that speed puzzling is the only way to enjoy puzzles. It’s kind of worrying! 😂
Congratulations on the 6000 subscribers ❤
I really love the fact you don't feel the need to rush through the puzzles, or your videos - we get to feel your enjoyment of the process. Puzzling for me is meditative, i can enjoy other people's need for speed, but personally i appreciate the finished results more if i have taken my time and not felt any pressure to get it done within any time limit.
Mind you, i do feel very deflated if pieces are missing, lol.
Hi Paisley!! Thanks for enjoying this pace and puzzle! I got to a stage where I cant rush my videos anymore, it's becoming an issue for me, so I will just take my time and if viewers want to stay they will stay and watch! if they need fast rushed through videos there are millions of other channels ut there! funny enough I dont really mind if the pieces are missing, I know it can be frustrating, but I dont worry much about it, I think it is irritating if we get stuck on a piece that is not even there! haha thanks again for the feedback! really appreciate it mate!
Ric, excellent puzzle. It is beautiful. I truly enjoy the music choice for your videos. Very fun. I do pay attention to the small details in the pieces and I love random cut shaped pieces too. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and history of the puzzle with us🧩🥰❤️Good times!
Hi Laura! Thats so nice to hear from you! Thanks fir the positive feedback, always welcome and encouraging 😁🙏 happy puzzling!
I enjoy the leisurely pace of your puzzling.
Hi Candlechatbliss! Thats nice to hear. I am getting tired of having to rush everything because ‘no one has time anymore’ i also prefer a more relaxed video. 👍🏻😁
@@RicPuzzles when you rush through a puzzle you miss all the little things just like in life. ☺️
exactly! :-) @@Candlechatbliss
Congrats on your 6k milestone Ric!! Very nice puzzle, kudos for completion! Thank you for sharing!
Hello Marlene! Thank you!!
Fantastic new video, Ric. Congrats on the 6000 milestone. You will surely get a lot more in no time.
Hello Puzzleme. Oh thx a lot for your support and for your friendship here!
Congratulations on your subscribers! Thanks for sharing your experience with this challenging puzzle. It truly is a beautiful image.
Hi Laverne! Thanks for the positive feedback! Glad to know you enjoyed the picture as much as i did!
I love the end final thoughts, you seem so genuine and relatable. Thank you for sharing. I didn't know much about you before, now I can build a better profile of who you truly are.
Thank you so much PuzzleMe. Glad to have tou a puzzling buddy here. Thx!
Looking very nice mister, I'm surprised you took so long to complete this jigsaw but if you work all day I can totally relate. I have been working on a jigsaw for several weeks now with no sight of the end. Great video, I think you are onto something big and wonderful. I'm your biggest fan.
Hi Mandalas! So we have something in common: lack of spare time to puzzle away uh😁 wish days were longer hahah thx for the comment mate, and for the support!
congrats gorgeous, You deserve 100,000 easily. your videos are simply the best in our niche, hands down.
Wow, thank you so much!!
Ric you are my new crush. Loved the video!
😁haha lol thats nice thx for the lovely comment!
Another great video! I appreciate that you aren’t trying to rush or impress us with speed.
Hi Puzzling_art! Thank tou so much for the feedback! 🙏😁
Yayyyy 6k!! I remember when I was one of your 60 subscribers 😁. The image on this puzzle is a bit intimidating. But I always remind myself, its one piece at a time. I'm a super sorter also, very organized, shape, then color for section, then resort, subsidy lol. You get the picture!!! The puzzle is worth it, if you enjoy the image!
Hi Leatrice! That’s good to know you are also a super sorter, oh my i totally relate! sometimes i feel like i might be scaring people away but im on s mission to stick to my shtick! Thank you for the feedback and for the congrats , i remember your first few comments snd i will cherish that , thanks again!
Great! And congrats 🎉
Instead of felt i use smooth flannel or finely woven but firm cotton such as muslin to line my box trays. Not as sticky but it won't pull up as easily!
Yeah...we gain a lot of patience and persistence doing this stuff, right? 😂
Now what a great subject idea for Ric. Compare puzzle tray surfaces. I've wondered about velour, velvet, watercolor paper, what works?
Hehe yes we do become better humans by doing puzzles, instead of counting to 10 on stressful situations we probably count to 100 😂 i heard flannel is a good material to work with indeed! I might actually try it some time!! Thanks for the awesome tip!
Hello Ric. Congratulations on your 6000 subscribers. Keep up the amazing job. By the way, I love your puzzle trays. I would like to have something like that. Question, what type of table you use for your puzzles? Have we wonderful weekend.
Hello Hector and thank u very much! That table is my dining table, it’s an old wood table and because i had serious back problems, i had to lift it to almost 1.2m high using large wooden chops under each leg - the whole thing is hilarious 😂 i moved it to the back room which is my big dog’s bedroom literally (very messy room!) but it’s where i get all day light. Perfect spot. The trays oh the trays! I made a video for my older channel, i should post that here too, stay tuned!
Beautiful puzzle! I really enjoyed watching the videos.
Hi Izebelle! So nice to hear that, thank you!
Congrats on the subscribers! 🎉
Great video once again. 😊
You always have such great ideas on techniques to help solve puzzles.
You got many hours of puzzle enjoyment for a cheap price! ❤
Happy Puzzling, Ric!
Oh thanks Lisa! Thats nice to know, thank you for enjoying the new video! 🙏🙏
Hi Ric, congratulations on 6000 subscribers!!! Thank you again for reaching out! It is very interesting to see the different types of puzzle content we create. This puzzle is really cool, but like you said, the colors are all pretty beige. Amazing job on completing it! As for the felt on your puzzle trays, I can really relate since the mat I puzzle on is felt as well, so I have trouble cleaning off all the puzzle dust in between puzzles.
Hi Kat! thanks for taking a few minutes to check this out! so nice of you! been working on this forever heheh, still keen on doing a collar vid some time in the near future! I love checking other puzzlers on RUclips, there are puzzles around I never imagined existed!!! indeed the Felt is a bit of an issue, I tried the felt mat and hated it! haha it looked very dirty all the time hehe
Greetings Ric, congrats on the subscribers. This is an excellent example of perfection. The puzzle is great and the video production makes me want to buy the same puzzle. I have been to Chester in 2018 and throughly enjoyed it.
Hi mate! That is nice to hear tou have been to Chester, looks like a fascinating little town, been watching a few yt tour vids, very cool place! And hey thanks for the feedback on the vid, i appreciate that.
Congratulations on getting to 6K subscribers and getting that puzzle finished. 👍 The old Waddington puzzles had interesting cuts but sometimes there were areas of similar colours which made them hard to do. I did some Waddingtons Famous Trains jigsaws years ago and they were not easy! They were reproductions of stamps which came out in 1985. The border takes some time to do never mind the rest of the puzzle. If you Google Waddingtons Famous Trains jigsaws you will see what I mean. These types of puzzles are slow and steady, little and often. I was somewhat amused to see that you were giving chips! to your followers!!!! The subtitles can be a real hoot at times or totally baffling. 🦉🤔
Hi PuzzlePiece! Thanks for the congrats, i appreciate that very much!
indeed i do know exactly the puzzle you are talking about! I completed the same puzzle years ago, and ot took me like forever as well! The frame was a 90 min job i remember well. Omg was i giving chips lol 😂 oh my! Hahaha
Congratulations on 6K and I too love sky or water and I generally do them first, so satisfying.
Haha hi Thegoodchicken! So cool to know im not alone! I love the nothingness of those challenging areas 😁👏 what i dont understand is a lot of the people i see complaining about those sky parts are happy to do single colour puzzles like the kryptic metallic ones. It’s conflicting 👏
Kryptic are not for me, but the slight variation of colour in sky is really interesting. Great channel, I’m viewing from Dublin, Ireland so just up for commute to work and had to get my jigsaw fix by watching your video 😀
Oh mate that is so so cool! Irish folk tales was my favourite subject in high school, i used to know ‘the playboy of the western world’ by heart 😂 big cheers mate, glad to know you enjoy my videos.
Great video! Congratulations on hitting 6000 subscribers! 🥳🎉🧩
Hi puzzler from Sweden! Thank u so much for the good wishes mate! Thank you!
What a lovely puzzle. well done on completing it. I know I’d struggle with it because of the similarities in colours.
I get you when you say pieces with many details or colours on it. I have abandoned a puzzle like that, which is a shame, but puzzling is supposed to be enjoyable.
I live in the U.K. and I’ve never been to Chester. 😊
Hi 50s!! So nice to hear from you again. And you live in the UK, how awesome! i hope i haven’t embarrassed myself too much here 😂 my knowledge of the country is very rudimentary 😁😁 similar to you, i started a puzzle called ‘st ives’ also a place in the UK, by gibsons and i had to give up! Every piece was a carnival of colours and they drove me insane! 😅😅
@@RicPuzzles I have been to St Ives. That’s a lovely place. Funny you say carnival of colours as the puzzle I gave up with was called Carnival. 😄
Wow have you been there?! I watched so many videos about it! Thats my top place to visit in the UK, it looks very much like devonport here in nz. But of course much older. Haha carnival uh? We are reading minds now 😂
I can relate to the difficulties you experienced with this puzzle. We're just finishing a 750 piece, The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. It was very difficult for similar reasons as yours. Resolving the short bush strokes of similar colors made it the hardest and most time consuming puzzle we've done yet. Still rewarding though. Congratulations on 6,000!!
Hi Drew, oh my, starry night - i have heard this is one hard to complete puzzle regardless of size or puzzle count! Good to know you are finishing and are still sane after it. It is really incredible how much we underestimate these puzzles isnt it? I have fallen into the trap of thinking ‘oh yeah that will be a piece of cake, easy’ and find out it’s as close to impossible as it could ever be! Haha happy puzzling!
@@RicPuzzles At one point I tied to talk my wife into quitting the puzzle for the fist time ever. Starry Night has to be the next most difficult thing to a solid color puzzle. I'd look at the pieces and my mind would just go blank. I think all the pieces I fit were by their shape, not the artwork. I was actually using some of your shape descriptions to find the fits. The way Van Gogh used short strokes of colors made it difficult, as often two pieces that fit didn't share any colors in common. Sometimes I had to turn the pieces over to confirm it wasn't a false fit. The original artwork hangs not all that far from where we live, we may make a trip to go see it now that we spent so much time studying it . . .
Damn that sounds like some of my previous failed experiences too, i know the feeling well. I do have a mini 200 puzzle of the starry night, now i am worried because the pieces are a quarter of normal size snd require tweezers, i can only imagine how difficult that will be. Thanks for sharing this experience, it will certainly come handy!
10k on the way
I hope so Kevin! 😁👍🏻🫠
Congrats on your 6k subs!
It seems to me that this puzzle was rendered more difficult by the shape of the prongs. They all look very similar and teardrop shaped. It's one less distinctive feature that you can use when doing solid colour sections.
What's very popular in the puzzling community these days are puzzles with bright saturated colours, sharp lines and clean transitions between the elements of the image but this puzzle was anything but. I also enjoy puzzles with a muted colour palette and a more delicate image. It feels more relaxing to me. Almost like puzzling a dream.
Hi FellowPuzzler, it's so reassuring to know you enjoyed it, it is a real treat indeed to work on puzzles that are less saturated, less divided. I know what you mean, I like those big bright puzzles but I cannot afford any at this stage in my life. I have seen some breath taking puzzles on Instagram, there is a puzzler called The Puzzling Lamb and her puzzles are AMAZING. but im sure she is spends thousands of dollars on new puzzles which I prefer to spend on more pressing things. :-) glad to hear you see puzzles as a therapy, likewise, this is always the Me time I need!
@@RicPuzzles Ah yes, @a_puzzling_lamb. I have been following her channel for a while. She's got great tastes and I find the way she edits her video refreshing. It's also another channel where I found refuge from all the speed puzzling content out there. 😉
Thats cool mate, and hey glad to hear that other puzzlers also enjoy the relaxed vibes. More and more i come across people who think that speed puzzling is the only way to enjoy puzzles. It’s kind of worrying! 😂