LEGO Minifigure Faces 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

I might have gotten too big for my britches thinking I could easily put together any 1000 pc puzzle within a couple of days with no problem. This Lego puzzle definitely put me in my place haha. It took me about a week working on it a couple hours a day. It is a very high quality puzzle, no trick pieces and they fit together nicely so you’ll know when you attach the pieces together correctly. Worth every penny of the price. Despite it being kinda hard and sometimes frustrating, it was still fun and I felt challenged and satisfied once completed. I do puzzles constantly and couldn’t even count how many I’ve done since Covid began, but this puzzle was my favorite overall. The included picture insert is helpful and necessary. The size of the insert is perfect with only 1 fold in the middle that doesn’t distort the picture at all. I have ADHD so I actually kept it folded in half when using it to limit the distractions.Assembly tips…1) Once you assemble the easier Lego faces with glasses and obvious distinct characteristics and you’re left with very similar looking faces, use a similar strategy as you would with a word search puzzle. Pick 1 piece with an identifying feature, a beard or lipstick etc, and go row by row on the picture insert until you find where the piece goes. I used a tiny frog figurine as a marker to not lose my place if I got distracted when I found the placement for a piece I remember seeing before.2) Have a sorting strategy from the beginning, grouping similar pieces separately, eyes with lashes pieces with teeth or smiles, beards etc. But most importantly, separately group left sides of faces from right sides, and bottom of faces from tops, it will help tremendously at the halfway point when the remaining pieces all look the same.3) Line up the grouped pieces in rows with the Lego faces vertical (eyes, eyebrows will be the top of the piece and mouths, beards and teeth will be the bottom) 95% of the pieces are easy to identify which direction is up.

Don't be fooled, this is a very challenging puzzle. I found it fun with unique challenges.

Fun, challenging puzzle. Pieces fit together nicely. Print quality is excellent.

So many faces ..it'll give you a headache. It took me a week (1 hour per day) to finish it. Great quality...reason being I spilled coke all over it...I was about to throw it out...but instead I put napkins on it and let it dry...looked good as new lol.

This was a challenging puzzle, but worth the effort!

This puzzle was a fun build. It was a challenging puzzle, but not so challenging that one would want to give up on it. I am not one of those “start with the edge pieces” type of puzzle builders. I prefer to build puzzles organically from various points of interest. For this puzzle, I started with all the faces with glasses, and all the faces with beards. Then I arranged them according to picture on the box and then proceeded to fill in the gaps and edges. I completed it over the course of five days as opposed to a day or two like some less challenging puzzles I’ve built. Unfortunately, it only had 999 pieces. There was 1 piece missing when it was all said and done. Who’s to say if the puzzle came that way, or the piece got up and walked away somehow. It’s certainly nowhere to be found. Despite the twinge of disappointment with the missing piece, I really enjoyed building this puzzle. If it wasn’t for the missing piece, I would give it 5 Stars.

I'm still working on this puzzle, and it's been a challenge - there's enough unique faces to match up most of the board, but there's a lot of similar looking faces that fill in inbetween, so at the moment I'm dealing with hundreds of eyes and mouth pieces...I've been happy with lego branded puzzles, having bought a couple before. It's smaller than the typical 20x27 for 1000 pieces, and the nice thing that simplifies things a bit is that you always know the correct orientiation of a piece. I wish there was a more positive lock when joining pieces, as moving pieces around is a delicate affair, but that's just nitpicky.I usually glue puzzles together when I'm done, but for some reason I might be ok taking this one apart and saving it to do again later. I think the repetitive faces makes it feel not as unique, and therefore it's got some repeat value.

the quality of puzzle is not really good, but still fun. not a good idea to gift this because of the difficulty. i'm planning to frame it but the frame for 20X25 is too expensive. I only paid 10 bucks for this puzzle so i don;t want to pay another $50 for a frame. any suggestion on frame? btw, i have already glued it