This puzzle defeated me once. Let’s try it again.

[@KarenPuzzles]

Well...every time I try to promote the Karen Puzzles Puzzle in a video, it ends up unavailable. It should get restocked soon, but I don't know the exact timeline. Stay tuned to my Instagram for more updates!

[@stacyssassystyles]

I pre-ordered almost 2 weeks in advance and its tell me 1-2 months - I was so bummed!!

[@unorthifox]

I already got it last Tuesday after pre-ordering! Now to find time and a place to do it where my cats won't play with it haha

[@macicowata]

@@stacyssassystyles probably all in stock are gone and they need to print more

[@cyh4031]

Pretty cool puzzle!

[@kellicos]

I preordered and got it a few days ago. the first challenge is finding a big enough place to do it!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Sherlock had Moriarty, Regina George had Janis Ian, Ariel had Ursula and Karen has the 1500 Piece Puzzle with the Under the Sea Theme.

[@pastelprincce]

Does this mean Karen is Ariel and Ursula is a puzzle in an alternate reality? 😂

[@thegrapeentity7662]

Implication that Karen is a fictional character

[@cosmicjenny4508]

Aristotle had MASHY SPIKE PLATE!

[@kgpz100]

Idk if people appreciate just the amount of editing you undertake to make these videos. Thank you for making puzzling look so fun and rewarding!

[@MiaSimic]

The exact same board that you had for the puzzle with those that wanted to used in the game/Olympics I guess I don't really know what you should call it but yea.

[@stellasdoesstuff]

I love how you kept the audio of the puzzle pieces clicking into place in this video! The sound is so satisfying!

[@josephpoole3942]

I loved all the close up ASMR-like shots of placing pieces in the right spots. This puzzle was so pretty and reminded me of a huge dragon puzzle I did as a kid.

[@RaijaAlatalo]

We need more ASMR-like shots!

[@KarenPuzzles]

“Like really sitting down and doing this one for real - I’m really liking it.” Just preemptively making fun of myself for that one before anyone else has a chance to 😅

[@greg.murphy]

I got a kick out of "for real."

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

Like, good one 🤣

[@JLvatron]

Congratulations on finishing this challenging puzzle and for your team Not losing any pieces! I think 7.5 hours is pretty good alone, considering a team of 4 needed more than 5.5 to finish.

[@awmyth]

Love the way you run your hands over a finished puzzle. 😁 For us, you spread so much puzzle cheer, YOU are a true champion.

[@AuntGrace]

I agree. I didn’t understand why until after I watched her and the started doing puzzles. It feels so good to feel it all smooth. And you are also making sure 😊there are no pieces not fitting in. 🧩🧩🧩

[@awmyth]

@@AuntGrace Oh, OK! Now I understand. I always feel, you all do it to express an inner feeling of pride and happiness at having finished the puzzle.

[@Callypso73]

Ooh, the *click click snap* of the pieces going in were so satisfying in this one! I'm glad you were able to tackle this puzzle again and properly enjoy it. :)

[@elinoldenburg4629]

I liked that you gave a shoutout to the artist. I actually have put together the "poisons and potions" one twice. It is fun, but pretty difficult for me who is a pretty slow puzzler. In that puzzle i started with the bright orange and red pieces followed by the DRAGON. I would probably tackle this one in the same way 😄 Thank you for the video Karen, it is always fun to watch. 😊

[@KarenPuzzles]

I felt bad that we were all ragging on this puzzle in the last video, when it's actually beautiful artwork if you're not trying to race it!

[@asuwannabe2015]

the sound of the puzzle pieces connecting is so freaking satisfying! and that connection of the red squid up top to the edge OOOOOOF that hit that good spot in my brain

[@aim-to-misbehave5674]

"Because of daylight savings, it's 4 o'clock and already getting dark" _sobs in British winter_

[@MeriaDuck]

And apparently 78 degrees, which is about 25 celcius. In november. That's summery for me 🤣. Being a bit more south than UK/NL has its perks.

[@aim-to-misbehave5674]

Yeah, being on the 53rd parallel north puts me at the same latitude as the Gulf of Alaska! You don't realise how far north a lot of Europe is until you compare it to places like the mainland US

[@cypriennezed5640]

Spotted some one-handed puzzling a la Our Queen Kristin 😍

[@anselimnida]

So happy to see you finally got to complete this one! My husband and I picked it up at the competition and finished it at home in a bit more than 11 hours. It was our first puzzle over 1000 pieces. I worked on the sand first and then struggled with that fabulous dragon eel thing. Thank goodness my husband did all the tiny fishies! The artwork is beautiful though! Thanks for sharing the artist's other puzzles. The gnomes one looks adorable. Maybe if I am feeling brave, I'll give that one a try - after doing your puzzle, of course!!

[@Staticjokes]

I'm so glad you gave this puzzle a go again! It looks very difficult

[@KarenPuzzles]

It's difficult but not frustrating when you're not trying to speed through it!

[@filiaaut]

Learning to puzzle as a team really seems like its whole beast, just putting 4 strong puzzlers together won't suffice. Seeing this video makes the top teams' achievement at the competition look even more impressive, it underlines how difficult the puzzle was, even by itself, so as the third trial in a limited time competition. Congratulations to anyone who finished it, during the competition and outside of it.

[@mythicmysticmoon]

I would 100% want to focus on the dragon first (and no, not just because it's the word of the day lol). I find the scale texture to be easy to sort out, and I feel that it spans enough of the puzzle that it'd be very good to work off of. Hooray for finishing this one!! And hey, divide your final time by four and you plus three clones of you could've done it in less than 2 hours.

[@katya9235]

i didn't know ANYTHING about jugsaw puzzles but one day youtube recommendations decided that i should... and well here i am - doing my first ever puzzle. just wanted to say thanks to Karen, i really needed something new that could excite me!

[@KarenPuzzles]

That makes me so happy to hear!

[@lillianpark90]

Connecting that giant squid to the edge was so satisfying

[@sandysandor6052]

I just finished a 1000 piece puzzle in 7:31 and now I'm very proud of myself for almost keeping up with Karen for 1500. I've learned so much about puzzling from these videos! Can't wait to solve the 3000 piece puzzle (my first big puzzle) soon!

[@andrewsasala6841]

My copy of "Puzzles on Puzzles" came in yesterday, and I can't wait to start it! This underwater puzzle is also on my list now, it looks so cool!

[@KarenPuzzles]

Amazing, thank you for ordering one!

[@anniedonnell6925]

god i love the sound of the pieces clicking together lol

[@lilithofedom]

i really like this puzzle. its very cute and has so many things happening it would take me a long time to study the whole thing.

[@MrTheta78]

If I did the puzzle myself, I would probably try the plants on the bottom left, cause i like when the lines orient the pieces for you. Or the dragon, what the hell. By the way the audio is so good on this one, it really goes in asmr territory when you're clicking pieces into place ^^

[@adrienimhof3467]

I am doing the 2000 pieces Potions and Poisons of the same artist. It's so difficult! (I'm not a very experienced puzzler however). It's incredible to see how fast you can do it!

[@psychedbypat]

I attempted to do the Potions puzzle by the same artist with my best friend and her mom and it was so difficult to collaborate on it. Mad respect to anyone who got this puzzle even close to done during the competition, y'all are dragons! 😂

[@chuckiej]

I'm glad this puzzle didn't DRAGON too much beyond your goal

[@treexlxthroughmyeyes]

Hello, Karen, I used to watch your art & design tutorial videos. it is the first time I stumble across this channel, really glad to meet you again! this process is so soothing to watch! I am also happy for you finding a niche market on KZbin!

[@dennisdistant]

You were really sitting down for this one.

[@dagnabit27851]

Today is my birthday and my husband surprised me with your puzzle!!!! I can't wait to get started on it.

[@KarenPuzzles]

Happy birthday! What a great gift!

[@veronica5896]

Happy birthday!!!

[@marieketrompert4387]

Happy birthday!

[@CatFromFL]

Karen, please buy yourself an ott light. The biggest one you can afford. I believe it will really help you, as reading glasses can help too. Puzzling really calls on good vision and great lighting. Ott lights are on sale in Michael’s or Joanne’s frequently-sometimes with 50% coupons. I use my ott light for puzzles, knitting, reading and anything that calls for good lighting.

[@jungersrules]

I'm a newbie to puzzling, and the third puzzle I ever did was a 500 pc Ravensburger that had Koalas and birds (lol, I forget what type they were). I was so overwhelmed. It's one of those puzzles that frustrated me at the time, but looking back it was the most memorable. I would not pick the dragon to do ... maybe the squid?!

[@heatherbadciong7635]

I was hoping you would redo this puzzle. Thanks for doing it again! Too funny you said you would do the dragon first, and still did it in the order you worked on it as a team. I do think the bottom would be what I would start with and then maybe the mermaids. And then the dragon. Thanks for the video Karen! Hope you had a great friend's-giving!

[@leahmichelle7247]

Pairs is the most I can do. I’m currently working on a 3000 Ravensburger with a partner and, if you know each others strengths (I’m a ‘sorter’ & she’s a ‘picker’), it can work well but a team sounds too hectic. I wouldn’t know where anything was.

[@taylorharvey3980]

I literally can't even wait for your puzzle!! I'm so excited

[@Serenity_Dee]

So I'm concluding that you need to clone yourself three times and form a hive mind, and then you'll be able to solve it very quickly indeed. As for me, I think I'd want to focus on the dragon first, because that's a good chunk of the middle right there.

[@TheSolebenitez80]

Absolutely LOVE your videos. I started watching before putting any puzzle together in my life. Now I cannot stop watching your videos or puzzling! Thank you for introducing me to this great world!

[@Liba_Elena]

4:32 I love love love that you kept in the sound of the piece snapping in!! It's so much more satisfying!

[@aaronhelms]

Those pieces made a very satisfying noise being clicked into place.

[@patriciajaynebavas7118]

Love that image. Hoping your puzzle will be available in Europe soon.

[@KarenPuzzles]

Me too!

[@dpunlasmith]

Personally I love this illustration!

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

Thanks for keeping the puzzle sounds. They are so unique and special. It's also fun video. Doing puzzles with one hand is so nice, especially when being ambidextrous as i am 😄

[@SandraStanley-ih5qt]

I've always liked a puzzle and owned a few, but since I saw your videos I've now worked through my small collection and have had to go charity shop shopping to get more. My only problem is I find it so hard to walk away from a half-done puzzle and find myself sitting in the same position for hours on end. Thanks for the content @KarenPuzzles

[@kristin87425]

Coming back to watch this since it’s been on my wishlist forever. I don’t know if anyone appreciates that sorting game but I do. I literally cannot I just hunt and peck for 15 hours. But I hate the sorting process with a passion but it is SATISFYING to watch you do it 😂 and I know it goes so much faster!

[@MissDraiha]

This puzzle is so beautiful! I want to buy it now

[@buchbummelant8980]

This video made me buy all the puzzles by Zoe Sadler ... I truly enjoyed them!

[@ebonylocks9234]

What a beautiful puzzle I think you just woke up my do puzzles gene again. I'm watching how to do puzzles in a small apartment next. I never stopped buying puzzles though lol. Love your channel.

[@fumfimfa1224]

In an attempt to gather some courage to try again to conquer the 3000 puzzle I have, I stumbled upon your tournament video and thought: "This is long and doesn't look exciting" oh how wrong I was lol thank you for your content, I'm going 2 years back watching your puzzling videos! The editing is amazing btw you're doing quality job! Super interesting to watch! :)

[@toffeefuchs]

I first watched this video when it came out and thought: "Well that puzzle looks fun. I should try it." Then I got it for Christmas but never had the space to put together a puzzle that's bigger than 1000 pieces. Months later in summer when I did finally start it, I was shocked by how hard it was. I procrastinated working on it for literal months after putting together the edge and some of the most identifyable parts. Now I am back here to compare strategies. So far I am noticing that I did do most sections in the same order as you did, but then just ran out of patience for all the blueish scaly pieces. I guess it's time to grab an extra light and do some good old shape sorting. I just wish I had a bigger table and some actual daylight for that. All that said, I still love this video over a year later, I really enjoy your style and I love getting glimpses into your mind when you pause to talk about what you're doing.

[@nnnnopeitsmelori3073]

I had 1 box of 10 puzzles, 150-500 pieces each, depending on the puzzle. I took out a 500 pc and it took me over 5 hours to build it. I am currently waiting for a couple of puzzles to come in the mail from Bits and Pieces. I am so impatient for it to get here. I am so excited to build puzzles again. It’s been decades since I’ve puzzled. I had to take a long break to have and raise up 3 babies. They are all over 30 yrs old, I think I’ve got puzzle time now 😊 Now I want to find the puzzle in this video too.

[@JaneElenoraJones]

Hi Karen! I bought the puzzle after this video. It took 11 hours and 45 minutes to finish it. I was hoping for at better time, but I'm not as good as you. Most of the time was in the evening after the kid was put to bed.

[@eosrose6126]

U seem to be a very cheerful, kind and humorous person 😊. Aaand i love puzzles... So thank you for your videos

[@Demost2]

ALMOST AT 200K SUBS.....HYPE!!

[@KarenPuzzles]

If everyone got a friend to subscribe, we'd be there in no time!

[@Myrthe164]

Honestly, your individual time is very impressive compared to the fastest team. They basically put in 10 hours ( 4*2,5 ) into this puzzle and you only 7,5! Of course a team and competition setting makes the comparison more complicated than that but I think you did amazing for such a difficult dragon puzzle!

[@phineas81707]

Not only that, but at the 2:30 check, she accomplished over half the work with a quarter of the manpower.

[@mikeandjeanninejeffers1196]

Dragon! This was fun watching you do this puzzle, and I am so happy for you that you have your own puzzle! Can't wait to get my hands on one of them. Happy Holidays.

[@victor_hernandez_g]

I think it "defeated" you because of the pressure and the nerves, even though you've been distracted recording.

[@kastanie7445]

The sound of clicking the pieces in place 🤩

[@keladry12]

You have inspired me to try to do puzzle competitions. I think I will be trying to do one in St. Paul next January! I am so excited! Thank you, Karen!

[@KarenPuzzles]

I love to hear that! You'll do great!

[@blaireshoe8738]

Best of luck to you, but most importantly, have fun! :D

[@50sRockChick]

The artwork for that puzzle and the others she’s done look really cool. I’m doing the most difficult jigsaw ever. Every piece has about 5-6 colours on. It’s a Gibson one called carnival. I’m on the lookout for a dragon jigsaw. 😉

[@datgaydangernoodle1315]

Have fun! 😬😂

[@darci4434]

I appreciate your hardwork of editing and doing puzzles at same time even with back pain I understand your pain "by reaching dragon" as I do some puzzles too at the moment I'm doing 3000 btw

[@alchemyqueen2764]

This puzzle is so beautiful!! It's already in my Amazon cart!

[@LovelessArcana]

I would do the squid and the sand, then I'd probably challenge myself too much and get stuck on the dragon. I really like the illustrations of this puzzle, but sussing out all the different blue tones would drive me nutty ha! 😊✌️❤️

[@ilbabo2218]

The clicking noise of the pieces snapping into place is oddly satisfying. 🧩🎶

[@KarenPuzzles]

Getting into the puzzle ASMR game with this one 💅🏻

[@BenW0lf]

at 14:29 i counted how many pieces are missing and how many u have left to put in and the number was 91 for both so if i not miscounted u did not loose any... so now i finish watching it

[@sarahgibbons9737]

I think I would choose the sand beach area to work on first because I like the bright yellow, i would then work the orange areas and so on, leaving dark colours until last. The dragon looks like it would drag-on to me and take hours 😊

[@Tom1573realist]

That is so my kind of puzzle difficulty and image. I instantly rushed to Amazon and added it to my wishlist 😃

[@malglove]

Oh wow I love the other puzzles Zoe has made, I’ve been thinking about getting the potions one. No wonder I liked the look of this one so much! I knew it would be difficult in a speed puzzling setting, but I do really love the design and small details.

[@Rlduncan1]

Congratulations!!!! You conquered your nemesis!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Way to go Karen!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@autumn7143]

I don’t know. I would probably pick a dragon.

[@eilishf6005]

Can you please do a recap video on the puzzle competition please. For example: What you have learnt? What would you do differently? How to prepare better for next time? Would you do a teams event again or were the rest of the members dragons? Or maybe do a FAQ video at the same time as a recap about a puzzle competition. I'm hoping to get the puzzle in the new year once it is available internationally. Thank you!

[@musicjotter]

You know this is some serious jigsaw puzzling when you have an actual puzzle piece count: 6:02

[@LordVash88]

The sound of the pieces clicking together is so satisfying

[@Atalinay]

I was too focused on the competition last video, but this puzzle looks so nice. All the creatures look cute. 🐠

[@SummerJune25]

I am working on the Poison and Potions Puzzle right now. I am only did the sorting and edges so far... but it does have a dragon as well

[@rose-mariedekoning8471]

I think I'd claim the blue dragon, since it's not the easiest part, but it is an important part of the puzzle and can help others situate their pieces.

[@sourcererseven3858]

dang, I gotta get more into puzzles with my kindergarten-aged son... He does like a good puzzle, though they're more like 15 pieces than 1500 😁

[@WallinGaming]

I'm glad you both conquered and really enjoyed the puzzle in the end, great job! I think the dragon would've been my favorite part to work on as well.

[@veronica5896]

So much fun to see you tackle this again!

[@pierQRzt180]

In one of your recent videos you said "I am tired of hard puzzles". You could well cycle through the 500 pieces puzzles under "time pressure" (as if you were in the individual event of a tournament). That won't take forever, it is still hard due to the time pressure and it is still puzzling.

[@kristinagurvich3443]

Dragon! This one looks super fun but, also, shout out to these ASMR snapping into place shots!

[@Silent-Lucidity]

Now that you've completed a competition and expressed how much more fun it is to complete puzzles as one, will you do another competition? The 'dragon' is my fav!

[@kathylynn1375]

I hope they release Karen's puzzle in less pieces I don't think I could do 3000. Crossing my fingers

[@sonja_blub]

The Mermaid Puzzle looks super fun! There is the 2000 Pieces Puzzle "Giftschrank" also from Zoe Saddler and this is the first and only jigsaw puzzle I put on my walls. It´s in my kitchen, for a little inspiration when i cook...^^ Its so much fun because there are so much details 🙂

[@elizabethsheets5514]

This looks like an amazing puzzle I can't wait to do this one. I hope I can. I just bought your Karen Puzzle can't wait to do that one to all setup.

[@philippe1201]

Congratulations! This one is definitively on my list.

[@100koochy100]

Dragon: the dragon would be cool to do but in a team I would do what everyone else didn't like to do.

[@chenyorene3854]

Dragon is beautiful. I wish there is puzzle competition in Asia.

[@KarenPuzzles]

You could sign up for an online competition and just work around the time difference from wherever it is being hosted.

[@leahbelieva]

Love that you added in the audio of putting the pieces into place! I wonder if starting with the dragon, as you had planned, would have changed your time🤔

[@jenmckitrick]

I would not start with the dragon. Maybe the red squid.

[@juliabrown5379]

Looking at the one handed puzzling technique!

[@kathylovingshimer6708]

I like watching others putting a puzzle together. I enjoyed this video .

[@maskedsim8664]

I just bought my first two jigsaw puzzles because this looks so fun! Both are 1000 pieces of houseplants and vibrant flowers 😍

[@oneearedmusician]

I just subscribed to your channel and now watching the 24,000 puzzle videos. I had bought 0uzzles years ago, but never completed it. If only I could take a snap shot of the puzzle piece I'm starting to work on now. It's a 550 puzzle piece I'm starting out with. The challenge? To not have my kitties knock over the puzzles. 🥰 I am 45, married with no kids, unless you count the kitties. 😜 But I'm determined to finally complete a puzzle. Also, I play the piano. I started looking at my piano piece as a puzzle. Where do my hands go? Where does the music and the notes fit? How does it sound when I play that note? You really got me thinking thank you for these videos!

[@Wilddornrose]

I did this puzzle a month ago. I'm not surprised to see you tackle it so similarly to my strategy. I did learn puzzling from you in the lockdowns

[@thekmonkey101]

I just got my puzzle and it is BEAUTIFUL!!! I am so so excited to do this puzzle designed by you!!!

[@alikialf]

I love your content so much!!!! You're doing a wonderful job at keeping us entertained! You're the best company I could ever ask for! ❤️

[@vittoriagnecchi5783]

The winning team are cyborgs!

[@BaronBytes]

Congrats on slaying your dragon. Your passion is so contagious. Love watching your videos.

[@Laserstormelpies]

Ohh, interesting. Your time is just 6min less than what I needed for a 1000 piece puzzle that I also did over the course of 3 days (and finished today). Thing is, usually I would consider myself a faster puzzler, and I did try to strategize and do this one quickly, but it turned out I received an evil puzzle in disguise. A friend gave me a 1000 piece Anne Geddes puzzle with the "Sleepy Baby Mushroom" image, and the puzzle has a huge area of green that you need to solve by recognizing patterns. And the worst thing is, that the left halfs piece cut is repeated again on the right half. So I definitely understand why my friend gave up on this puzzle and even allowed me to keep it. This puzzle is 66% green with repeating cut so my expected 4h turned into 7.5h, which is still pretty good for what this puzzle was, but oh boi. It took me 2h for a proper sorting and to do everything that wasnt green and then 5.5h for the green part, applying even better sorting and also abusing the repeating pattern to finish one side and then look up what kind of shape I need on the other side, so I felt pretty good in my strategies. I wanted to do a little speed puzzling and ended up with a little challenge puzzling, so that was unexpected. :D Oh a little note I almost forgot, I also took your advice to heart, that you shared while preparing for the puzzle competition, by looking at the box more often. I never look at the box, but if I ever wanna go to one of these competitions (what I would love to, but they are all far away from my location) then I still need to work on myself to look at the box more often, which wouldn't even have crossed my mind if you didn't say it a little while ago.

[@oh_kale_yeah1199]

I really wish I had space in my tiny studio to do your puzzle 😭, it looks so pretty 😍😍! I'm sure everyone who gets it is going to really enjoy it. Great design!

[@solevazquezmaria]

I love all this competition content! This puzzle looks like fun but hard, I would try to do the red and yellow parts first too. Then the DRAGON!