Ravensburger Krypt Silver 654 Piece Blank Jigsaw Puzzle Challenge for Adults – Every Piece is Unique, Softclick Technology Means Pieces Fit Together Perfectly
- High quality components – Ravensburger’s jigsaw puzzles for adults are crafted with premium quality, in terms of both content and material, and are virtually dust free.
- Bestselling puzzle brand worldwide - With over 1 billion puzzles sold, Ravensburger is the bestselling puzzle brand worldwide.
- Anti-Glare surface - Ravensburger puzzles use an exclusively developed, extra-thick cardboard combined with our fine, linen structured paper to create a glare-free puzzle image and give you the best experience possible.
- Softclick technology – Individual pieces are so precisely made that you can actually hear a soft ‘click’ when you fit a piece into the correct place.
- Precision fit – No matter how large or small our puzzles, each is precision made so that every piece fits perfectly.
GurwinderKaur
Would highly recommend!
This was a challenging puzzle, but I was finally able to complete it by figuring out the patterns. I would highly recommend that anyone who thinks they are good at building puzzles give one of these a shot, there aren't very many pieces, but you tend to become dependent on the picture in order to complete the puzzle and that doesn't work here. Typical high quality product from Ravensburger.
JoyDescallar
A unique challenge
My friends and family looked at this puzzle and thought I was insane. They assumed, like I imagine many of you do, that this puzzle would entail hours of trying piece after piece after piece for every single spot. This is not the case. While there are puzzles on amazon that feature this sort of mind-numbing ennui, this isn't one of them. Since there is no image, this puzzle forces you to rely on other aspects of the pieces, such as very detailed aspects of the shape, to figure out where they go. As no piece is the same, you can use height and width and number of ins and outs on each piece to sort your way to victory. Honestly, the first third went very quickly. The center spirit and border had very unique aspects in each part that made putting it together a challenge, but not a painful one. By the end, you have to b more creative, organizing by shape and size and offset of the nubbins to figure out where they go. It should he said that the puzzle includes a printed page showing the shape of each piece in the puzzle, and while it's not perfect on the say ratio of how wide one foot is to another, it is exactly right on where the "innie" and "outie" parts are. Excellent puzzle. Hard, but not crazy. Just do it. It's a must for anyone looking to get better at puzzles or just looking for a new challenge
MichelleSouthern
Challenge accepted!
No problems with missing pieces though there were a few pieces that questionably fit that could impact the final outcome. We kept the questionable ones out just in case. In the end, it was perfect. It was a challenge for my puzzle loving husband. It took a few hours altogether.
KennyBrown
Take Five Review - LOVED IT !
Ravensburger makes some of the best quality puzzles around, and the Krypt Silver 654 is no exception. The pieces are thick and lock together nicely. I thoroughly enjoyed building the puzzle which I found was easier than the Gold Krypt, but took around the same amount of time (a few days). Overall the puzzle was well worth the money spend. Below are 5 quick hints/observations that you may find useful. 1. Ravensburger includes a black and white picture of the finished puzzle that you can use as a key. I recommend using it! I’m not sure if I could of completed it without going crazy without using the key. 2. Since there is no picture, I would recommend sorting the pieces by number of holes/tabs, boarders, sizes, etc. as you take them out of the box. This will help reduce the number of possible “trys” you will need to attempt per piece. Sorting the pieces as you take them out of the box also keeps the puzzle dust in the bag instead of all over your work surface. 3. If you plan on buying a frame for the puzzle, it measures 19 ¾ x 27 ¾, a 20x28 frame works nicely. 4. The puzzle is well made and tight fitted, if you find a piece that works but just a little off, it is not the right piece!. I read some other reviews where people had to trim some pieces, this should not be the case. 5. If you intend to use sticky sheets (this is what I use) to keep your puzzle together, I found that it was easy to flip your puzzle over if you build it on a scrap piece of drywall. Use another scrap piece when completed to put on top and then flip it over. Some people recommend sandwiching your puzzle between two pieces of cardboard, but I found that drywall was much easier since cardboard tends to bend and flex.
ReginaLehnen
a good buy.
Gave this puzzle to my sister for Christmas, 2014. She hasn't spoken to me since. a good buy.
JohnClark
Great puzzle.
Puzzle was so fun to put together. Once finished was perfect for home decor.
KaylaRegimbald
Well earned reputation for the most difficult puzzle out there!
My mom is into puzzles and wanted a challenge. This gave it to her! She typically does puzzles completely on her own, but with this one she was ready to give up a few times. I had to help her complete it! When I bought it for some reason I believed that the coloration was different throughout the puzzle. Like it was all silver, but different shading a bit so you could at least tell what pieces went to what part of the puzzle or something. I was completely wrong. The entire puzzle has the exact coloration so that is of no help. This doesn't bother me in the least since it made the puzzle that much more of a challenge, which made it that much more fun for us. This is the ultimate challenge puzzle. It's no easy puzzle by any means, it is something to brag about finishing. My mom called a craft store about how to store the completed puzzle when we were done and mentioned what puzzle we completed, and the employee she talked to said "You finished Ravenburgers Krypt???" The puzzle has a reputation! Honestly even if we never finished it and gave up I think we would have had fun trying and talking about the difficulty. And any reviews from people saying "I solved this quite quickly!" are lies from sad people trying to pretend. WAY too many pieces look the same! There are pieces that take up the spaces of two pieces, and you don't know where they go! The center is circular, leading you to believe you can figure out which ones belong in the circular center and which ones belong on the edges. But beyond the middle of the circle, the closer you get to the edge, the more the pieces look exactly the same as the square ones. They did a great job of camouflaging the center pieces to look like the edges, leaving you with even more pieces to sort through to get a match. It's no easy puzzle by any means! Total puzzle fun and a great challenge!
MahnoorHunjra
Fun and Challenging
I bought this puzzle for the challenge, and to be able to display it and say I survived the Krypt! My mother and I started the puzzle on Saturday morning, and finished it on Sunday night. It would have taken longer but we're quite obsessive when it comes to puzzles, so we ate takeout and neglected life in general until it was completed. We used the map because there was no way we were going to completely brute force this monster. Some of the pieces are tricky, they fit in places they aren't supposed to and are very difficult to detect until you reach the end and have leftover pieces that have no homes. Sometimes the incorrectly-fitted pieces would get stuck together, and some of the silver cardboard detached while trying to separate them. This isn't a problem if you're going to Mod Podge the puzzle though, and that is exactly what I'm going to do next. Another great puzzle from Ravensburger, I would definitely recommend. That said, I am never doing another Krypt puzzle again. Once is enough!
AakankshaRoychowdhury
A whole new perspective
Wow, this was a great challenge. I tend to do puzzles by color and image while my wife tends to work by shape. Well this even challenged her shape skills. And the spiral was a great new "twist". We always carefully disassemble a puzzle, put it into a box and find someone else who would like it but in this case it looked so good on our glass dining table that we Mod Podg'd it to make a permanent center mat. We had a slightly smaller, real mat there anyway so this is a perfect upgrade.
TinaHernandez
Unique shapes coupled with solid color provides a unique challenge
I will never do a blank puzzle again. Well, probably not. If you have to do a solid color puzzle to complete your bucket list, this is a fun one. I love the Krypt format, although I'm not sure if the difficulty came from the shape or from the lack of picture at times. The puzzle measures 50cm by 70cm when completed, and a 20" x 28" frame will work for it if you want to preserve it. The shape is what makes the Krypt puzzle line fun. In the middle is a massive spiral, spiraling from smaller pieces to larger, barely curved pieces. Bordering these pieces are irregular, typically triangle-shaped pieces that provide the interface between the pieces making up the spiral and the quadrilateral pieces that make up the outer parts of the puzzle. To complete this puzzle, you have to rely on the obvious factors: shape, size, number of prongs/slots. A guide showing the puzzle piece types in a completed puzzle diagram is provided in a sealed envelope with the puzzle, but it is left up to the purchaser whether or not to open it. Some people like taking their pictures of the completed puzzle with the sealed envelope to prove they did not need it. The biggest downside to this puzzle I think is that the majority of the satisfaction only comes when you complete major blocks, like all of the border, all of a block-filled corner, or larger portions of the spiral. You don't get the same satisfaction you do from completing part of a picture. However, it provides more satisfaction throughout than a larger piece-count solid color puzzle. Overall, I found it was a lot of fun to just stop at the table and work on it for an hour here and there. I will definitely do another Krypt puzzle...but I think this time one with a picture. Maybe the Krypt puzzle with the Riemann fractal.