Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 26, 2020

My stepmother’s family members (mother, daughters, siblings, siblings’ kids) are suckers for puzzles. Where can I find the Heinz puzzle?

Some of those pieces look like they could be interchangeable.

Weren’t there several all-white jigsaw puzzles made?

I always knew dragons were eevil.

Could we teach the wax worms to make bourbon?

A few years back they had the “purple salamander” it was shades of purple, and every piece was shaped like salamanders.

The Statue of Liberty with it’s first version, known as the The Stink Eye of Liberty.

i don’t know…that puzzle just doesn’t cut the mustard

Maybe the wax worms could be used to take care of our plastic waste and the alcohol collected to be used as fuel.

Pretty sure the idea of a one-color jigsaw puzzle is nothing new.

Way back in my college days,

before we had personal computers, much less the internet to noodle around on… and smart phones were not even a distant dream…

We used to always have an upside down jigsaw puzzle going on a small table in my chem lab, for anybody to work on.

 

Small groups of us even gathered there sometimes with our lunches, and worked together on the blank puzzles.

When we finished one, we’d break it up and put it back in the box.

Pure time wasting.

I haven’t put together a puzzle in years. Probably since 95, when we installed the internet at my college. Non stop-mails from the faculty saw to that.

I did another puzzle that was considered the toughest in the world. The 500 all purple round puzzle. What made it even tougher was that most had “weird” shapes and some required two pieces on top of one another to be in the same height as the surrounding pieces.

Try “Purple Passion”, a 1000 piece puzzle, just purple and nothing else.

Unless the Heinz puzzle is the same front and back it may not be the hardest puzzle. There is a clear acrylic puzzle. The puzzler does not know which side is up, making it exponentially harder.

can the toxic alcohol be used as fuel or disinfectant or something?

Been done. The original “red menace” jigsaw was a 244 piece round jigsaw , and later they made a 500 piece version.

As to Ms Liberty:

She shoulda stayed in France while she was ahead.

Years ago there was a puzzle called “Little Red Riding Hoods, Hood” 500 or so pieces.and it was round.

Big deal; Moonshiners have been making toxic alcohol for many decades…

All we need to do now is genetically modify wax worms so that the alcohol they produce is ethyl alcohol.