Quordle Puzzles

What to know about shopping at Quordle Puzzles

Quordle Puzzles sells wooden jigsaw puzzles direct, with a catalog running to several hundred designs. The signature format is the figure-cut puzzle, where the finished piece takes the outline of its subject rather than sitting in a rectangle — butterflies, elephants, foxes, owls, peacocks, giraffes and turtles among them — and individual pieces are themselves cut into small recognizable shapes. Three-dimensional wooden puzzles, licensed artwork ranges from illustrators including Aimee Stewart and Josephine Wall, and a custom service that turns a supplied photograph into a puzzle round out the range.

Wooden puzzles behave differently from cardboard ones and that is the main thing to know before buying. Piece counts are lower for the same finished size because each piece is thicker and larger, so a wooden puzzle with a few hundred pieces is not the same difficulty as a cardboard puzzle with the same number. The irregular outline also removes the straight border edge most people start from, which is part of the appeal and part of the challenge.

On choosing between ranges, the artist collections tend to be the most detailed images and the animal figure cuts the most giftable. The custom photo service is the one to plan ahead on, since it is made to order rather than picked from stock — check the stated production time before ordering against a birthday or holiday.

The catalog is merchandised into seasonal gift collections that rotate through the year, and there are standing clearance aisles alongside them. Check the current price against the collection a design also appears in, since the same puzzle is often listed in more than one place on the site.

— MoneySaverCodes Team