I don’t know why, up until this very moment, I have never shared something that has become a big part of my puzzling life – the Flickr Big Puzzle Group that I belong to! I found this group through Tom of sexdrugsandjigsawpuzzles.com fame, and I have been hooked ever since.

Basically it is a group of like minded people (in this case those who love to assemble large jigsaw puzzles) from around the world who come together through this group to share pictures, experiences, and lots of laughs as we all work our way through extremely large and complex jigsaw puzzles. The group is called “The Big Jigsaw Puzzle Collection” and currently has about 60 members. It is well run and maintained about our “ringleader”, Billsville Mike, who is the most knowledgeable puzzler I have ever known. His experience and expertise on puzzle manufacturers, fine art puzzles, and anything else you may ever want to know about puzzles is vast. It is through him and this group that I have come to like fine art puzzles myself. I had never even heard of a Brueghel painting before, and now I have at least 4 on my puzzle wish list amongst a ton of other great paintings that have been put to cardboard and thoughtfully cut and mixed to drive me nuts. LOL

This group is only for the larger puzzles…all photos must be of puzzles that are 3,000 pieces or larger. You can post pictures of the box, opening and sorting pieces, assembly / progress photos, and eventually the end result when it’s all finished! Everyone in the group is very encouraging, supportive, and knowledgeable on just about every large puzzle out there so it’s nice to post pictures of the puzzle you’re currently working on and get some positive feedback on how well you’r ,e doing – even when it feels like you’re certainly NOT doing so well.

There is also another group, called Jigsaws that has a lot of the same members, but it geared toward puzzles of any size – typically the smaller ones. Many of the members of the Large Puzzle group also belong to that one so it make it pretty fun to post in that group as well.

If you should like to check it out, please feel free to Click here.