The jigsaw puzzle that can express anyone's face

I believe someone who loves puzzles may also like to play with a jigsaw puzzle. I had played a lot with jigsaw puzzles when I was a kid, but I haven't played jigsaw puzzles recently. The last jigsaw puzzle I played with was M.C. Escher's artwork, "Ascending and Descending." As you probably guessed, I started the four corners of the puzzle first, then finished each edge of the picture and built all the pieces with the picture printed. So, what happened was there was a blank area left with no pieces between the edge and the centre of the picture like a moat of a castle. I only had white pieces remaining. This is my bad habit. I will get tired of finishing a jigsaw puzzle as I approach the end, especially when there are no pictures printed on pieces.

ジガゾーパズルでベートーベン作ってみた。

遠目に見たらそれっぽい pic.twitter.com/rbPEUxtYYQ

— TG (@TGniconico) August 4, 2017

If you are the one who does like me, there is an interesting jigsaw puzzle for you. I had one when I was in Japan. It's "Jigazo Puzzle." Jigazo means self-portrait in Japanese. This is a pun that was named by the company Tenyo. Tenyo company was established in 1931 in Tokyo by a famous Japanese magician, Tenyo Shokyokusai. Their products are sets of magic tricks, mysterious goods, for example, savings boxes where money disappears and jigsaw puzzles. Probably, you have seen one of them. They have been producing ordinary jigsaw puzzles, but in 2009, they released an epoch-making jigsaw puzzle, "Jigazo Puzzle."

As you can see from the title, Jigazo Puzzle can make anyone's face using the same 300 pieces. You can make a dog face or cat face too. Those 300 pieces can be used again and again. Firstly, you take someone's face that you want to make and send it to Tenyo's website. They will reply attached with the design drawing. The details can be seen on the video below. Actually, this is so much fun. If you get bored with an ordinary jigsaw puzzle, why don't you try?

 

Tenyo Company, Ltd. http://www.tenyo.co.jp/profile_en/index.html

Amazon: Tenyo Jigazo Puzzle [Japanese Import Version] $24.57