Winter project - 18,000 piece puzzle

[HardyGirl]

And what if we don't have Facebook and still wanna see your Puzz-illa?

We are 53 hours into the puzzle. After the initial turn over of pieces and first shoebox sorting, we filled seven tables. A second shoebox sorting got us down to four tables of pieces. The border is complete, we have chunks of lizard, lily, crocodile, flamingos, and sky complete. If you want to check it out, go to our Puzz-zilla Facebook group.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/puzzilla/

[Rallygirl]

And what if we don't have Facebook and still wanna see your Puzz-illa?

Shall I put it on Flickr?

[Rallygirl]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsygh...th/8261161614/

[Figuremod73]

Yipes! Those are some mighty small pieces

[wayne foundation 07]

oh my thats insane. I hope you are keeping the cat away from the tables. Thats just unreal, please keep us posted on the progress. I hope this one will get glued and kept together after its all done.

[HardyGirl]

Thanks hun. I love ya, but you're NUTS!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsygh...th/8261161614/

[z3zep]

Wowza, I used to do 1000 piece puzzles all the time. but this is something entirely epic.

[Rallygirl]

I had to give up for the night; I am about going cross-eyed from looking at all the sky and cloud pieces.

[wayne foundation 07]

can you get carpal tunnel from doing puzzles ?

[Rallygirl]

I just added up the puzzle time sheets; we have worked on this puzzle for 96 hours and 2 minutes. Not counting the almost 1,000 piece border, we have at least 1,721 pieces together. There are actually more pieces together, but while tracking time is mandatory for puzzle workers, counting pieces is not.

There are new photos on Facebook and Flickr.

[Rallygirl]

January 18, 2013.
134 hours and 13 minutes into the puzzle.
2,696 counted pieces assembled. Including the frame, there are at least another 1,000 nobody counted.

53 - Jan 18, 2013.jpg

[toys2cool]

crazy!! but I give you props

[alex]

Just saw this thread thats a lot of pieces, I once had a "baked bean" puzzle which I found crazy to do. I just clicked onto the "making of the puzzle" on the amazon site, didnt realise there was so much technology behind it. Laughed when they said they have a "service" dep. if U lose a piece

[Donkey Hoatie]

This is the type of thing I'd like to do some day. Unfortunately, i just don't have the space or the time to do it now. Just broke out a 1000 piece MC Escher puzzle over the weekend and it's about 2/3 complete after approximately 12 hours of work. Rough estimates of other workers puts it at about 30 hours until completion, so I'm feeling pretty confident I can beat that number.

Good luck with your quest.

[Rallygirl]

***January 23, 2013 update***
We are 151 hours and 57 minutes into the puzzle. We have 3,640 counted pieces together. More are done, but not all our visitors count their pieces. 18,240 pieces divided by 50 pieces a day equals 364.8 days, or one year. This is day 71 and by schedule, we should have 3,550 pieces done. We are at least 90 pieces ahead!