What do you all think? Should I have powered through, or do you understand why I decided to quit?

"I'm almost 30, I'm done spending my time on things that I don't enjoy, that I don't have to do." girl, that is so relatable. 😅

You are the most wholesome Karen ever.

This puzzle seems like a serious missed opportunity for a good whimsy-cut puzzle with pieces shaped like ketchup bottles, tomatoes, apples, hearts, crosses, all manner of red things. It would have been a wonderful keepsake and probably a collectible. Instead, they really blew it by making it unimaginative, cheap, and impossible. I've only recently gotten into jigsaw puzzles, the whimsy-cut wooden ones with 400+ pieces ... and I'm disappointed that the only one I've given up on was the Clemens Habicht color gradient globe. I have an extremely low tolerance for sorting before I start in, and that puzzle demands a full sort. Also, half of it is green and blue, my least favorite colors. It seemed like a perfect match for me, and I can do challenging puzzles well. But there was no artwork, no design, nothing on it but false color matches that seemed "close enough" but still too far apart for me. (I have really, really good color vision, so even adjacent pieces seemed like they were a mile apart to me in hue.) If CH put out a spherical globe puzzle with actual artwork screened onto it, I would be in absolute heaven. I love the feel of the plastic pieces, I love how neatly they snap together, and I otherwise adore full-on 3D puzzles like the Bepuzzled ones (although all but one have way too few pieces to satisfy me). But that color gradient globe invariably ended up with me dumping the pieces out on my tablecloth, feeling like I was undergoing Chinese water torture for ten minutes, and then I put them right back into the box. I should have spent the money on a good Liberty or Nautilus wooden puzzle. TL;DR -- Serious missed opportunity by Heinz for a whimsy-cut puzzle, and I crap out on the CH color globe every single time because it has no design on it.

As a blind person who happens to be a puzzle enthusiast, your struggles in this video brought me so much joy. Because I am blind, all pieces of every puzzle always look the same to me. All the same color all the time. Finally I’m not alone and struggling! The strategies that you used to put this puzzle together is exactly how I put all of my puzzles together. I just try pieces over and over and over again until pieces fit together and then sometimes I have to rearrange them. I am sorry though that you struggled so much and it was very frustrating for you. Don’t forget that you are an amazing puzzler! Keep up the great work!

The puzzle was just quickly/cheaply made. Im sure those other people on instagram had every other piece in the wrong spot as well. I mean come on, if Karen isn't able to do it correctly, no one is 😅

When an expert puzzler says your puzzle sucks, it’s maybe time for a quality upgrade especially for an impossible solid color puzzle. I wouldn’t even consider the puzzle at all 😭

So...basically Heinz should not give up their day job!!

You have high standards about how the puzzle should fit together. I’m not sure all the people that finished it set the same standard. I would have given up sooner.

The best quality of this puzzle is the the reusable bag it came in!

They should've done a close up photo of ketchup spread out on a surface Then there would be light reflections and swoopy shapes🙃

“Whoever made this is literally Satan” I laughed SO HARD!

Essentially they didn’t know what they were doing, so they accidentally created the goddamn devil.

I really expected them to use interesting pieces at the very least. That whole puzzle is just a big yikes.

I love how she says she is not spending more than a day on the puzzle... Versus me.... I spent 2 months on a puzzle (500 pieces) and its still not finished!!!! (its the same black and white puzzle that i told you in the comment you liked a while ago 🤍🖤)

i don't blame you for giving up. I took one look at that and my first thought was she's not gonna finish. and yes i have given up on a puzzle before

my uncle is colorblind and he can’t see red so he usually does puzzles flipped. (cardboard side up) so this would definitely be one for him

I’m not throwing shade but on all of those finished ones you could see some pieces raised like they didn’t fit well. We could all do that if we didn’t care if it fit or not!

Imagine if they made other condiments as puzzles, like a solid yellow mustard puzzle or a solid white mayonnaise puzzle 😂😂 (but better quality with MORE VARIATIONS IN CUT AND CONNECTORS)

I've totally given up on puzzles that were just impossible for me to do. I'm almost 40 and yeah, if I'm not enjoying the puzzling, then I'd rather be doing something I enjoy with my time! Good on you for making that decision!

You’re such a perfectionist😭 I’m sure those other people were just fitting together the wrong pieces. If you didn’t care about the perfection you could’ve done it too haha. Been binge watching your channel btw.

I think I’d be sick of this crazy puzzle after about 15 seconds. Well done Karen!

I would have given up, too! My pet peeve is when pieces aren't unique enough/bad puzzle cut, but a solid color, too? Impossible! I have only given up on one, with a bad puzzle cut. My dad once was determined to do one where multiple pieces seemed to match, and when it was all done, he flipped it over and numbered the pieces on the back 😂. Is that cheating? 🤔

Life is too short to waste time on an impossible puzzle. I hope that your next puzzle is one that you enjoy!

Karen: Who ever did this is Satan Me: Yeah the puzzle is red

I’m glad you bailed. I ALWAYS refuse to do that even though I feel completely fed up with some puzzles and you have actually made me decide that yes I can stop a puzzle if it is no longer fun. Feels better. Thanks for a very enjoyable video.

Kudos to you for even attempting this impossible puzzle AND not feeling bad for giving up. There are SO many great images, manufacturers and better quality puzzles out there so go with one of those for your next try. 👍🏻

The 57 refers to the # of spices in their steak sauce, Heinz 57. It’s possible there aren’t that many spices in the recipe, but they don’t claim to have 57 kinds of ketchup. Your knowledge of and enthusiasm for puzzles is impressive. 😁

Hello Karen! I found your channel today and your personality and genuine joy you have about puzzles is so amazing! Subscribed immediately and am now binge watching your videos and they're making my day so much brighter ❤

Imagine if the makers of Heinz said, "Whoops, we forgot to add an extra 0 to that puzzle", and the puzzle was 5,700 pieces instead. That would be pure torture/punishment

That one would go straight into the blender for a delicious pulp smoothie.

Jigsaw puzzles should be fun and challenging-not maddeningly frustrating!! I don’t blame you for abandoning it!!! Good job!!!!!!! 😀😀‼️

How on earth anyone completes something like that? Impossible. This is pure evil. Like... Ice cream with ketchup.

"...and it took me three days..." Me, taking literally 6 months to solve a thousand piece puzzle: Damn!

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching you torture yourself for us. I remember the first book I didn't finish - even when 8 hated them, I felt like I had to finish. Then I tried to read "Stranger In A Strange Land" and I was just done. I was like, I could actually be enjoying my life. So,that's all to say, I totally support your choice! I love you and your channel - I'm so glad I found it. I'd love to see you do a video of you doing your favorite puzzle!

Impossible, indeed! It's a good thing you quit for your sanity, plus that puzzle is from the depths of hell. As to your question, yes I've given up on a couple, but it doesn't mean I'm done with them. I put them back, assembled in their boxes so I can try them another day.

I bought that puzzle a few weeks ago when I saw you had it, just for the novelty of it. I haven't even opened it and won't rush to after seeing it's basically a hot mess and impossible to solve. I certainly don't blame you for quitting!

This is perhaps the most hilarious video I've ever seen in my life. I love you, Karen.

I am so impressed that you had the self-confidence to say that this was a poorly made puzzle that required the assembler to become an automaton in order to complete it. Surely you could have completed this seemingly impossible puzzle, but why since the activity would have been filled with boredom and mindlessness? Your goal was to review the puzzle and you did, and I’m so glad you stopped once you knew enough to give us a truthful review.

You made the right decision because you are a smart cookie. I have finished puzzles like this that I'm ashamed of doing after the fact but never again!

Karen I'm happier to watch you quit this puzzle than complete it. Love your videos. Impossible

I don't think I have ever actually given up on a puzzle before. But I try not to buy puzzles that don't seem like fun. And that one looks like it is torture and "impossible" to finish

I look forward to her uploads all the time! Love her personality. I’ve given up puzzles before but when I have it’s so relieving. When they aren’t fun and become too stressful I must put it away! “Impossible”

Karen - you are absolutely correct to stop doing this puzzle. I have worked on tough puzzles but there was always some satisfaction in finding pieces and the joy of working on the puzzle. This puzzle appears to have no joy at all so you make an impossible but correct decision. I have always preferred Hunt's Ketchup anyway :)

Your laugh is so cute, it's impossible to not laugh along!

Yay! I’ve been waiting for this

I'm subscribed to you but this was the first video that showed up on my home page in awhile (since January I think; yay yt). I didn't do a single puzzle during those many months, but since seeing this video last week, I've ended up doing 3 550 piece (with a 1000 piece in progress now) and bought 10 more puzzles. I hope this comment winds up being viewable for you (yt never likes to show what I write). Your videos are enjoyable and got me back in a puzzle mood. Thank you

I’m glad you stopped working on that impossible puzzle! I agree with others that Heinz really missed an opportunity to go with a unique-shape puzzle.

I wonder if maybe any of the "maybes" DO fit. like, they're cut in such a way that as long as you had the right piece type, it was technically right?

A month ago I gave up on a 1000 piece puzzle (the picture called "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Beautiful picture, but except for the girl, the background was solid black and about half of the puzzle. The problem is that (except for the edge) EVERY piece was exactly the same basic shape (2 knobs and 2 openings), with very slight size differences. I got the picture completed, and the background begun, when I realized that my time was not worth it. You're welcome to the puzzle if you want it!

Thank u Karen for teaching us a lesson. 🙏 That if something isn’t making us happy we shouldn’t do it!

I ran into a similar situation when attempting my one puzzle when I got back into puzzling earlier this year. It's the movie poster for Jaws. While not all of the pieces are the same, the edges are all solid black and often times I would find several pieces that would appear to fit together. Also, the sky (outside of the title) was 81 pure white pieces that were also all cut very similarly. I'd get a section of the sky together and then run out of pieces that would fit the next space. While the puzzle isn't probably impossible, it got so frustrating that I had to give up on it. I did box it back up with the edges/borders and title/word pieces already separated, but I just needed to move on to some of the other puzzles that I got.

I love your new filming space! And don't worry about not finishing the puzzle, it looks impossible.

I just give up a puzzle beceause I want to do another puzzle it's not beceause he was impossible

When you were laughing at the end I found it so funny and started laughing hysterically. Thanks for making my day!

Yes! I was so looking forward to this!!

Great video as always. Nice way to pass the time while a cake is baking... it's impossible

I just woke up lol and this is the first thing in did Edit: thank you all for this many likes. This is the most I've ever gotten! :D

You are a great inspiration...I am 28 and you have made me start jigsaw puzzles.. I have started with 100 piece puzzles and hope to reach 1000 soon!!!

Dang. This puzzle is tough. Your devotion to puzzles is admirable.

I do not blame you at all for deciding to quit, it was a really stupid puzzle. 18:00 The only time I gave up on a puzzle was a 1000 piece puzzle with 2 colours and the pieces were thin and cheap quality. Code Word: Inpossible

Wow, that product design is some hot dog toffee. Like it could have been so fun and pretty, but who thought that it was a good idea to make the pieces so identical?

You find the coolest, most unique and interesting puzzles.

Karen, I've never given up on a puzzle. However, I've never faced one as diabolical as that Heinz puzzle was designed! Thanks for attempting it and warning your followers. You have earned the right to show you frustration and I appreciate it. Keep smiling and sharing! [impossible]

Imagine if these pieces all have the same cut, AND they only fit together in exactly one way! o,O

"Whoever made this is literally satan" 🤣

I literally always hated puzzling but ive been your binging your videos and suddenly felt the need to try it out myself! so I look for a puzzle my roommate and i strated in march but never finisched and now im sitting here watching your videos and trying to solve this! lets see how it goes

Always look forward to your videos! It would have been "impossible" for me to do that puzzle.

“Whoever made this was literally Satan” Me: that’s why it’s red not because it’s for ketchup but because it’s by satan

I once worked on an Elvis puzzle that was entirely grey scale. It was HORRIBLE! I worked on it for 3 days before packing it back up....it was literally making me angry. It was the total opposite of what I should have been feeling...there was no joy at all! It wasn't worth it!

I so understand your decision. Impossible was my attempt to do a 1000 piece ghost crab on a beach. It had the crab, a bit of sand and about 800 pieces of different shades of white. I gave up trying every single piece. Enjoying your channel very much. Greetings from 🇩🇪

Your videos are so relaxing, i love it ❤️❤️❤️❤️ keep it going 🙏

I dont blame you at all -.- I didnt think it would be fun either...I am on board with you deciding to do something better with your 3 days lol

Let me tell you that life is absolutely too short to do something you don’t enjoy (& isn’t necessary). Haven’t yet given up on a puzzle but I’m sure it is coming. - Impossible 🧩

Impossible! I think many of your viewers just like your style of content, your personality, your smile and enjoy hearing your perspective, regardless of whether or not you finish the puzzle.

Karen, you are so awesome I just had to stop the video 4 minutes and 40 seconds into it just to tell you that because I just love your energy I love your smile I love how you do your puzzles and you're so entertaining that's all I wanted to say.

Karen having a mental breakdown with just seeing the box 😝

Like the puzzle . Karen . Have you thought about . double sided.puzzle

These puzzles are crazy!

I really really really like your idea how to do this puzzle and it's not cheating at all because you have only your wits to figure out how to get these pieces back together and whatever method you choose to do it that's called being smart

This puzzle could be a punishment for murder

"Impossible" / although I am with you, I would have given up on this one. However, if the quality was better I could see not giving up and trudging on.

Ive got ADHD and puzzles like these are so helpful and keep my mind on one thought for longer than usual

I would not have even attempted it. I was impressed you got as far as you did with such an impossible task. 🤗

Funny how I was just wondering if there was a puzzle that was red like ocean puzzles that are all blue ahaahah and then I saw this video.

Me, before this video: why can't I find this puzzle in Australia?! Me, after this video: thank god I can't find this puzzle in Australia. Edit: I connected before the codeword. Impossible.

Yes I have! It also had a puzzle with a large section of solid color that felt Impossible. I decided to move on for the same reason even after sorting by shape - I had better things to do with my time! I fully support your decision haha!

Gosh I’ve been waiting for this one for sooo longgggg

this is the equivalent of a really hard game for streamers to play that people want to watch but playing it yourself is just too much

Not first Not last Most importantly Nobody asked Top 400 tho

Thank you. Now I don't feel so bad about not finishing an almost all black puzzle. My issue was that multiple pieces could fit in one place. I felt it was IMPOSSIBLE to know if the fit was correct. However, I bagged up the color pieces with the thought that I would return to that puzzle at a later date. Now I don't feel so bad. Thanks 😊

I'm binge watching your video's for a couple of days. I love your video's 😍

Why a horrible impossible Heinz puzzle!

This feels like the opposite of a sponsorship haha Its too bad they made it so terribly, not their best move if its for marketing >>

Karen. I hadn’t worked on a serious jigsaw puzzle since my first year of college over 40 years ago. Because of you, I have purchased six jigsaw puzzles that I liked from your channel. I just did the first one. I did the silver Krypt. It was so much fun because there was a decent amount of variation. My friends thought I was crazy, but the interior circle on the Krypt was so rewarding. I agree with you that this puzzle is just cheap quality and terrible design. Keep up the awesome work. FYI, the Krypt was easier when I copied the key sheet and marked pieces off with pink highlighter.

Thank you for your video on this impossible puzzle. Sometimes if a puzzle bugs you, you have to quit. I look forward to your next video. Nice work Karen!

Finnally *an actually good Karen* you have like, i can't explain it *she's like a usual Karen but she's the next evolution of a karen that actually has braincells and her personality isn't crap mixed with trash* Ily so much, all your videos are so interesting and you're so cute it makes me smile! Thank you for exsisting

Thank you for finally tackling it, I’ve being asking for This video since day one. Too bad it was such an impossible endevour, i probably would have quit before you did. I have only quit a puzzle once, it was a Ravensburger all grey Paris scene with only a red umbrella on it, and the rest was just this universe of sad gray pieces. I gave it away to my nephew and he surprised me by actually putting all together during this quarantine.

Obsessed with your channel omg

This video is so reassuring. One of the puzzles I bought during quarantine was so pretty but i couldn't finish. Half of it was basically all sky. It was hard and not fun. I've felt guilty for two years. I'm new to puzzles and didn't realize that we just weren't right for each other, that puzzle and I. And that's fine.