This week's puzzle is "Paguzzle Crossword Two." It's a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle with a crossword twist. The front of the box is NOT the solution to the puzzle. The crossword is only a partial completion to the puzzle. It was published in 1995.
The trick to this puzzle is that there are several clues that have no questions and are left blank on the paper. The jigsaw has the questions but not the answers to those questions. Other across and down clues have their answers spelled out.
Sadly, the numbers for the starting boxes are NOT present for those clues that are already solved. So it's really hard to start to place the start of words. You have to search through each of the letters to find their location.
Once you have the answers to the blank clues, you mail in your postcard and hopefully get a button/reward for the solved mystery puzzle. Fingers crossed that the publisher is still around at the same address since 1995.
The puzzle box.
About all that I completed of the puzzle. Enough to realize that it would not be worth it.
Partially completed puzzle answers.
Paper crossword filled in.
Copy of postcard that I filled in and mailed in this week.
Back of pieces have this logo that can sort of help you place pieces, but who really wants to do a puzzle from the back end?!?!
Overall this would be a really hard puzzle with a minimal payoff for the crossword portion of the puzzle. Yes, you would know the clues to the blank lines to complete the puzzle, however, I finished the crossword without these clues. A good crossword does this for you! I didn't see the point to find out the clue that would lead to pencil in "Sean Penn" when all the down clues spelled it out for me.
I wish the puzzle at least had the starting numbers for all the clues like a prior crossword mystery puzzle that I completed.
Thanks for reading,
Dr. Alex
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