I have a confession. I’m a closet puzzler.
Correction. I was. Before the pandemic.
Pre-pandemic, I spent most of my free time socialising and going out. I rarely mentioned to my friends – unless they’ve been to my house – that I like doing jigsaw puzzles. I wasn’t exactly shouting out loud “Hey, I’m not coming to your party because I’d rather puzzle at home!”
Don’t get me wrong. I am not embarrassed about my hobby. It just never came up because we’d often talk about work (how predictable, right?) or about the latest activities happening around town.
While I haven’t been talking loudly about puzzling over the years, I have, however, subconsciously picked up some puzzle-lingo over the years. And even though you don’t need to read an instruction manual or learn new technical terms to put a puzzle together, I figured it would be fun to pay homage to the bits and bobs we come across during puzzling with a Word of the Month section. For example, what do you call the innie thingie that goes in the outtie thingie?
Think of it like a puzzle glossary, a puzzlepedia or puzzledictionary!
Here is the Word for the Month (and one of my favourites):
“Whimsy” (or “Whimsical”) – an individual puzzle piece that has been cut into the shape of an object, such as a bird or flower. Commonly found in wooden puzzles. The shape may or may not refer to the theme of the image featured on the piece.
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