Puzzle Chat
The Puzzle Chat podcast is your all-access pass to the thrilling world of puzzles with Jeff and Denice for Puzzle Month (All of January) and beyond. From fun challenges to fascinating stories, we’ve got puzzles to play, puzzle hacks to learn, and plenty of Puzzle Day and Puzzle Month fun. Learn more about the puzzle culture! What is Puzzle Month? This special month was started as an extension of Puzzle Day, which is celebrated annually on January 29th. Both Puzzle Day and Puzzle Month were founded by Jodi Jill, a professional puzzle maker and lifelong puzzle enthusiast. Her love for puzzles inspired her to share the joy of puzzling with people around the world.
For over 30 years, Puzzle Day has been a day to honor puzzles of all kinds, and Puzzle Month takes it a step further - encouraging puzzle fans to enjoy puzzles for the entire month of January! Denice and Jeff want to share that love of puzzles with the world!
Puzzle Chat
Latest Episodes
Stare Test: Is a Jigsaw Puzzle a Masterpiece or a Nightmare?
You see a stunning, moody landscape on the jigsaw puzzle box. You buy it. You dump the bag. And then the realization hits: you just signed up for forty hours of staring at identical, soul-crushing shades of gray.In this episode of Puz...
Ghosting in Jigsaw Puzzles: Why to Avoid When Solving
Jigsaw puzzle players is your "hover time" slowing you down? In this episode of Puzzle Chat, we tackle the habit of Ghosting. While many solvers do it without thinking, hovering a piece above the board can actually break your flow...
Finding the Missing Jigsaw Puzzle Piece: Explaining the Zeigarnik Effect
One missing jigsaw puzzle piece changes everything. You are down to the final moments of a long jigsaw puzzle solve. Suddenly you see it. A gap in the puzzle that seems to be one of the last puzzle pieces. In this episode of Puzz...
Social Puzzle Friends Unite: Finding Local Puzzle Groups and Events to Network
A jigsaw puzzle piece only works correctly when it connects. Puzzle People are exactly the same. In this episode of Puzzle Chat we explore the world of social puzzling. We discuss why it is easier to make friends while searching for a pi...
Jigsaw Puzzle Intuition: The Invisible Architecture of the Solve
Have you ever wondered why your brain "clicks" when you find that one perfect piece, even before you’ve looked at the box? In this episode of Puzzle Chat, we’re moving beyond the "edges-first" basics to explore the abstract mental framew...