The Weird and Wonderful Puzzles of 1986 | A Year in Puzzles
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I'm celebrating my birthday with a video dedicated to my birth year - 1986! Take a look at all the best, worst, and weirdest jigsaw puzzles of the year.
This video was sponsored by Brilliant.
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@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
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@MsFluffytiger 10 ай бұрын
This was so fun, please do other years 😊
@stevestiopa534 2 ай бұрын
OMG!!! HELL YEAH, IT'S A MADONNA YEAR!! long live the Queen 🌟
@TimRachel 10 ай бұрын
That silver pouch in "the geese" is glue and the blue foam to spread the glue over the puzzle.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Thank you!!! How did you know that??
@allisongerfin7804 10 ай бұрын
@@puzzlephile Japanese and often korean puzzles still come with a packet of glue and a block of foam or a spreader!
@TimRachel 10 ай бұрын
@@puzzlephile I had a puzzle years ago that came with it. I think it had an instruction sheet on how to use it. I'll have to see if I can find it.
@johnmarshall9065 10 ай бұрын
Wysocki was the Thomas Kinkade of the 80s. Commercially successful artists are often disparaged. Good art allows the viewers to see inside the artists mind. Your videos are good art because you reveal the nature of your craft and your artistic vision..
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Wow, thanks! And now I’m so curious who has done more puzzles, Kinkade or Wysocki
@happygirllife1342 10 ай бұрын
I´m only 20 years old, but I love watching these videos of older puzzles, just because it showes how the art you put on puzzles changed over this timeperiod. And also, I have no idea how HEYE is pronounced XD There is no "obvious" pronunciation
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Glad to hear you like the old puzzles - I find them so fascinating!
@SudokuConCarabet 10 ай бұрын
I was in high school and college in the mid 80s and a big puzzle fan. Springboks purchased mostly at Hallmark Stores or bookstores made up most of my collection. I definitely had that Dancing puzzle! I also had a magic puzzle, which I think I still have in a box somewhere.
@Addicted2Puzzles 10 ай бұрын
The Hallmark Springboks were the very very best in the 80s! I graduated high school in 1990. 🎉🧩 I still have some of the puzzles I bought back then!
@laurapayeur9751 10 ай бұрын
I have the "boring" Milton Bradley puzzles, but that's what they were selling in the store near me in the 80's.
@puzzlepiece9509 10 ай бұрын
Have a great birthday, or if it has already taken place, hope you had a great time. 🎂 That was an interesting look at puzzles in 1986. 🧩 A lot of puzzles then would have been boring photo type images of country houses or cottages, views from around the world and animals etc. I can't remember what puzzles I was doing in the 1980s. The very first adult puzzle that I remember was a Crown puzzle called The Italian Lake painted by Frank Mills which I received in 1966. Today's puzzles are much more interesting in terms of image and cut. We are spoilt for choice! 😃
@50sRockChick 5 ай бұрын
This was a fun video. I’d now be interested to know what kind of puzzles Gibsons had out in the 80’s.
@Kanguruo 10 ай бұрын
I bought the rubik's magic puzzle a long time ago. I think, after buying it, I tried to assemble it, but gave up very quickly. A few months ago I took it out again and assembled it. It took me just over 4 hours for just 300 pieces. I suppose the fact that it is double-sided is a bit interesting.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
My big question: Is the difference between the sides obvious? Can you easily tell the front vs the back?
@Kanguruo 10 ай бұрын
@@puzzlephile No, it is not obvious which side is which. They seem to have cut it in 2 ways. Some innies seem a bit rounder on one side, but then the 2 outies on the same piece seem to have been cut the other way and be rounder on the other side. So the same piece seems to have been cut from both sides.
@RaijaAlatalo 10 ай бұрын
This is the year, when I was born, too 😁 THE.BEST.YEAR. Apart from Chernobyl. And I was born in July, too 😳 4th of July, to be precise. Now you're officially my favourite KZfaqr!
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Objectively the best year to be born 👌
@markb933 10 ай бұрын
That was a great video. Please go where your interests take you in the puzzle world and us with you👍
@Drew_Snydermann 10 ай бұрын
Very interesting, you put a lot of work into that video, bravo.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@suebrown3194 10 ай бұрын
This video made me go look at my (limited) puzzle collection. Turns out I have four (!) Springbok puzzles, one of them the Jungle Birds on the insert page you found in your box. The others are probably from roughly the same era, late 80's into the 1990's. All purchased from thrift shops probably 20 years ago. And frankly, there were a couple of other puzzles on that sheet I would enjoy doing. I find current puzzle images to be either all a riff on the same theme or too challenging to consider. For the sake of reference, my children bracket you in terms of age (one born the year before, another the year after).
@laurenp2548 8 ай бұрын
Incredible Edibles is right up my alley!
@Maggie-tr2kd 7 ай бұрын
Your video about puzzles in 1986 is so fascinating that it inspired me to go back to my birth decade (I won't specify the year - LOL) of the 1950s and look to see what puzzles were available. Oh my, not nearly as good as 1986. Really depressing except for seeing a few children's puzzles identical to or similar to what I had during my childhood. Sigh . . . Yes, I love the Springbok puzzles of the 1960s and 1970s.
@anselimnida 10 ай бұрын
"Don't judge me..." Lol. Always love your approach to making your puzzling what you want it to be! Really fun video. It was cool learning about what sort of puzzles were out there in '86. Even though the heydays of Hallmark unsurprisingly brought us a slew of generic and insipid images, you managed to find and highlight some interesting ones. Happy birthday and thanks for sharing it with us through these puzzles!
@Quanjerpuzzles 10 ай бұрын
I like the puzzles from 88-92, when gradient dreamy puzzles was in. Clementoni and Schmidt had a lot of them ..... I still have some in my collection - and always try to get more
@Mellie9876 10 ай бұрын
Really good video 💗 I know the “quietly weep” feeling when working a puzzle! 😆 Yet, I keep going back for more 😄
@craft_gal 10 ай бұрын
My dad had a Rubik's Magic. It worked a bit like a Rubik's cube but the tiles could be rearranged from three rings unlinked to three rings linked. I never managed to solve it.
@catharinebrider7501 10 ай бұрын
Great video!! I have a jigsaw from 1982 that is a Charles Wysocki mosaic from Milton Bradley. The pieces are square cut random shapes that don't interlock (think Tetris shapes!). Another interesting one is a 1992 3D puzzle from Crystal Line, it is 3 flat almost all clear layers stacked on top of each other, with a small amount of image on each layer, you look into/through the layers to get the 3D effect. It also comes fully assembled and also is very difficult to pull apart the first time, the pieces are soft flexible plastic and are still slightly joined. I also owned the rubik's magic circle/loop toy - it is doubled sided like the jigsaw images, you had to flip the panels to get the loops side by side in a straight line, then change the configuration to get the linked loops on the other side.
@catherinelevison3310 7 ай бұрын
That butterfly puzzle behind you (over your left shoulder) -I just finished it. Found it to be fun and far more difficult than I predicted. I’m hoping you’ll do it and tell us what you think.
@Erika.Villalobos 10 ай бұрын
"copylight" 😂 great video! Entertaining and informative. The amount of effort you put into these is obvious and I look forward to every new one. And what is up with the quality of food photography in 1986? Why are the colors so drab? The broccoli tree looks like something out of a faded 1960's cocktail party recipe book.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
😆😆 You’re so right!
@lourdestroche556 10 ай бұрын
Thank you, this was not only fun but informative! I don’t think there were many interesting puzzles from the year I was born, too long ago😆
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
I won’t ask when you were born 😆 but I’d bet there’s something out there
@rebekahnerad4900 10 ай бұрын
Happy birthday; very much enjoyed this video. I recently saw a vintage springboc at the thrift store called "life's a beach." While I was quite amused by the image I didn't get it. All that sand would have been a nightmare.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Yeah, they’re not all winners. Still cool to find one in the wild, though
@puzzlewithemilia 10 ай бұрын
These puzzles are so great. I like to do older puzzles because to be honest... they are harder and good practise for the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships. Are you by any chance joining the Worlds in September?
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
I wish! Not this year
@Addicted2Puzzles 10 ай бұрын
This is such a cool video Dan! I love the Springboks of the 80s! I have the Centennial Coca Cola Puzzle i bought in 1986! 😅 i would love to find the Crayola Freeway! I don't have my original anymore! It was such a fun puzzle though! I can't remember exactly what year Buffalo came out with the World's most difficult puzzles, maybe 1988? I found my first one at the Hallmark Store shopping for Springboks! 😂 this was a total walk down memory puzzle lane!
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
I love coming across puzzles from my past - you put so much time into them, they get seared into your memory
@Addicted2Puzzles 10 ай бұрын
@@puzzlephile Agreed!! 🧩☺️
@arizonajen7577 9 ай бұрын
Great video! I remember some of the puzzles highlighted. The Playboy puzzles are interesting. I've sent my husband on an internet scavenger hunt to find one for me. Playboy was iconic. I also want the Madonna True Blue and Wham puzzles. Wham.....swoon 😂 New viewer and very much enjoyed your content. Puzzle content is so fun. I am puzzling with a goal. We will be "wall papering" the ceiling of our hobby room. There are seven completed puzzles waiting to be glued. Can't wait!
@puzzlephile 9 ай бұрын
Wow! What a fun idea! I don’t typically glue puzzles, but now you’ve got me thinking 🤔
@allisongerfin7804 10 ай бұрын
Rocksaws is now making puzzles from album covers. And i totally agree, a lot are interesting but most are not good images for puzzles. I did get a Nick Cave one that was cool to do. Really nice quality, like a ravensburger.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Ooh I don’t know that brand, definitely need to check them out!
@leahsdreams 10 ай бұрын
Super interesting concept! I should look into my birth year as well. I'm sure there are plenty of weird and wonderful ones.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Do it! So much fun 👍👍
@disakland4714 10 ай бұрын
Greeting from fellow -86’er 😁
@RaijaAlatalo 10 ай бұрын
Hi my peer!
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
The perfect year to be born 👌😆
@vonettataylor6066 10 ай бұрын
First time watching and I'm glad I did. Subscribing, can't wait to see more.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! Welcome 😁
@PatriciaLaliberte 10 ай бұрын
That was a fun video! Thanks for the great content.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Thanks! So glad you liked it!
@LogicMasterSteve 10 ай бұрын
Cool Video - again! It must have been very hard to collect all that info... I hoped that you might mention the Piatnik brand but didn't expect it. Too small a brand then and now... 😊
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Piatnik has great puzzles - I didn’t know they went back that far!
@LogicMasterSteve 10 ай бұрын
Perhaps I will do a video about my vintage youth puzzles one time. Finding out the release years of those puzzles is hard, though, since there was no internet and the companies usually don't have their puzzle archive available to the public. Some of my (500, 1000, 1500) puzzles might even date back into the seventies but surely are from the beginning of the 80s. Yes, I am that old... 😂
@M_SC 7 ай бұрын
You: give intro Me:wow this the the perfect video for me me You: this is the neediest video I’ve ever done
@puzzlephile 6 ай бұрын
Hahaha Nerdy is in!
@thepuzzlingcanadian 10 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday Month! 🎉 Very enjoyable video. Love seeing all the different brands. I’ve yet to try the Great American Puzzle Factory. Other puzzlers have told me it’s a great brand.
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
I love GAPF, wish they were still around. Nice tight fit and cool designs
@lindakhan6690 10 ай бұрын
I have quite a few of the great American puzzle factory puzzles. I especially like the where's waldo series. Thanks for the background info on them. Do you have any?
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
I have two Waldos that I featured in a video. That’s all right now, although I’m fairly sure I’ve done others by that brand in the past. Very nicely made 👍
@johnmarshall9065 10 ай бұрын
Wysocki was the Thomas Minister of the 80s.
@M_SC 7 ай бұрын
Little correction Queen Elizabeth was 60 in 1986 (not 80).
@puzzlephile 6 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness, of course! How many times did I watch that while editing and not notice!! 🤦♂️ haha Thank you!!
@ruditrevino7361 9 ай бұрын
What is the black and white swirl puzzle in the opening? I did that one when I was young. I would love to know about it. Who made it? When was it made?
@puzzlephile 9 ай бұрын
It’s called Awful-Optic Round Puzzle by Bandwagon Mfg. but I haven’t been able to find any more info about it. (I’m also answering this question in this week’s Puzzling Life video!)
@allisongerfin7804 10 ай бұрын
I heard it was HIGH-eh
@puzzlephile 10 ай бұрын
Wow, that would not have been one of my top ten guesses
@jenniferdubkowitsch7769 10 ай бұрын
German native speaker here...that is 100% correct
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