I am not a puzzle lover, but some of my people like them. DS just sent this pic of their cold-day activity, with a extra helper. We gave him the puzzle for Christmas along with $ for a subscription to the New Yorker (he asked for a subscription but I didn’t want to get caught up in an auto-renewal thing so he can enroll on his own).

I just took a paper basket weaving class so that is going to be my winter sport, I think!

Haha! I thought you meant sport as in exercise!

Yes, I was being silly. Although I will say the only tiny I ever injured my back it was due to excessive repetitive jigsaw motions.

I was all puzzled out after the pandemic. Maybe its time to try again. My friend loves them and alsointricate paint by number ( which has no appeal to me).

Puzzles were hard to find when we all had to stay away from each other for months on end. I got a cute one on Etsy.

Those look just a lttle too challenging for me.

My aunt was big into jigsaw puzzles for a number of years. After she finished them, she would put a preservative over the surface, and then we would go looking for used picture frames at the Goodwill or other thrift stores, then to the glass company in town to have them put the "picture" in the frame with plexiglass. Her grandsons (or whomever she could corral at the moment) would hang them in her home on her gallery wall in the den or various other walls in the house. I told her when she's gone, her family is going to have so much fun filling all those nail holes in the drywall before painting. ha

She finally got to the point where she no longer could finish a puzzle, and her daughter-in-law completed the last one for her last year. It was a round one and finding a frame was a big scavenger hunt. Somebody finally found a large square one that would do. "No more puzzles!" she would remind all of us.

I prefer crossword puzzles. I picked up the habit nine years ago from my Mom who did them, and especially during her chemo sessions and since I just sat there she gave me a book once and that was it. I was hooked. Now I subscribe to The Herald Tribune Crosswords Only books, the challenging ones. The puzzles with 140 and over clues in the back are my favorites. I can spend an hour in the afternoon with coffee or tea. Then in bed at night, I do a smaller puzzle toward the front. It clears my mind and seems to make falling asleep easier..

I never make a puzzle more than once. After I finish them, I put them pieces in a Ziploc, with a note saying that all pieces are accounted for and the date. I then take it to Goodwill or the equivalent.

My Mom and Grandmother were very much into crosswords, particularly the NYT. I am not sure I want that type of a committed relationship, but I do Connections and Spelling Bee most days, Wordle when it strikes me. Big excitement I got Wordle in two in Friday.

I received a big jigsaw puzzle board with sorting drawers for Christmas. It's so heavy, I can barely move it. I'm not ready to put it to use, but I look forward to trying it out at some point.

I am a crossword addict, subscribing to the NYT puzzles so I can do them on my ipad every morning. Which has led to Wordle, Connections, and Spelling Bee… I don’t like doing the Boston Globe crossword online because their interface is just kinda wonky, but I recently added their Wordflower (similar to Spelling Bee) to my repertoire. Eventually I’ll just live on my sofa all day doing word puzzles in my pajamas.

I do the NYT and Globe crosswords on paper on Sundays. I have to go old school on Sundays.

I love puzzles but have never gotten very interedte in jigsaws The NYT crossword and letter box, sudoku and of course my all time favorite Spelling Bee are done before I get out of bed in the morning. Today was my 1,263rd consecutive queen bee.🐝 I have done the puzzle since its inception and love the daily challenge. I do the Atlantic Monthly crossword occasionally and have a sudoku app for extra challenging games.

Our love of games is familial. My DD and her DH are both gamers and schedule time weekly for online video games with both family and far flung college friends. We play code names, ticket to ride, monopoly and all sorts of games when together. DS2 still runs a DandD group and plays Go both in person and online.

I was cleaning out a cupboard and pulled a half dozen puzzles to donate. Moments later I was checking email, and see that the library is doing a puzzle swap this weekend! Perfect timing!

The NY Times has a mini crossword that I just started playing and it takes only a few minutes to play. I'm playing the archived ones too. I have played Wordle and Connections but got bored with both.

I actually went into Barnes & Noble before Christmas to buy a book that I could not get in time from any other source. I was pleasantly surpsied to see that they sell jigsaw puzzles. They also had some great stocking stuffers, so I will be doing more brick and mortar shopping this year. I would love to break the habit of buying from the big river. I am finishing a Christmas puzzle, but will be ready for some new ones soon.

We subscribe to the NYT, and I do all of the puzzles daily. I find the weekend crossword to be the most challenging.

I haven't done a jigsaw in awhile and probably won't this winter either given my "sitting" issues. But I went to the sr center to get some medical equipment and was stunned at the shelves chock a block with puzzles. She said you take them and return them whenever...no due date or time limit. I'll have to remember for next year.

In the meantime, while I'm recuperating, the library is running a reading challenge which I'm having fun pursuing. Try to read as many books in each of 40 categories by 3/15. Such as...by a new author...one you didn't read in school...a love triangle...a book with a color in the title...a pulitzer prize winner...about an animal...published more than 100 yrs ago... etc. For me half the fun is selecting the books for each category as well as reading them.