Karen Kavett (Karen Puzzles)

Well, it depends on if I'm doing it for speed or if I'm just doing it for fun.

Okay, so your time starts with the pieces still in the box.

And you're going straight through.

There's no pausing the time and taking a break and looking at the image and all of that.

I mean, you do look at the image, but you're not pausing the time to do that.

So you start, you dump out the pieces.

And then the first thing you want to do is flip everything over.

And some people like to sort while they flip.

I'll usually pull edges while I flip.

Or if you can't really do the edge, if it's all the same color or whatever, then I'll pull one element that I see.

And

Your flip shouldn't take more than about four minutes.

That's kind of the standard.

And yeah, so then once you have all your pieces right side up, then I like to start with the edge.

Not everyone does, but if I can, I like to have a container to put everything in.

And from there, it really just depends on the puzzle.

Yeah.

I feel like I go for color first and then shape.

You know, I'm not just going to look for a specific shape and not think about what the image is, unless you're working on the section of the puzzle that's a solid color or all kind of the same thing.

And then you would have to look for shape afterwards.