Spatial Relations: Do You Have Them?

@OneOfMany (12150)
United States
April 11, 2018 10:43am CST
I have often heard lately while working on Jigsaw Puzzles that I have excellent spatial relations. I'm able to put a puzzle together quickly by matching shapes and colors and can easily find the piece I'm looking for and put it in place. I can also remember the various locations of pieces that caught my eye, and be able to match them with their other half when I find it randomly. That way I can do a puzzle without much difficulty. The only time I run into trouble is when one piece can work in multiple different places, and the color is mostly the same as the pieces around it. In that case, some trial and error is required. I also have good visualization, where I can look at a two dimensional image and see it as a three dimensional object. That's a little different, but spatial relations help in that case when working on schematics.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
11 Apr 18
What can I say. You are a man of many talents. I couldnt even complete a jigsaw puzzle.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
11 Apr 18
I have been working on a photo mosaic puzzle for a few weeks now, it is near a wood stove that sets off my allergies, so I can't work on it long. It's coming along very slowly. :P It's basically a picture made up of thousands of little pictures. It's quite fun.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
12 Apr 18
@OneOfMany That sounds challenging. Keep us updated on it. hehe
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
12 Apr 18
@mlgen1037 I chose not to work on it yesterday, because I was breathing just fine! lol
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@JudyEv (340286)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Apr 18
I know they say jigsaws are helpful to children. It sounds like you have a real skill as regards spatial relations.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
12 Apr 18
I hope so. I have decided to put myself to the test to see if it is true or not. I ordered an edge-less, all-white, 1,000 piece puzzle. We'll see if I'm the real deal or not. lol
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
13 Apr 18
@JudyEv Yes, but I like a challenge from time to time! :)
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@JudyEv (340286)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Apr 18
@OneOfMany Oh my goodness. You're a devil for punishment aren't you?
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
11 Apr 18
My spatial abilities are much like yours. When I lived in communal housing jigsaw puzzles were something I enjoyed doing. There was a 2000 piece puzzle strewn out on the table that various others were working on for days. They had the border completed but nothing else. I sat down to it and began putting the pieces together. It was a beautiful picture of a mama Siberian Tiger and her cubs. I finished it in a day and a half!
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
11 Apr 18
There was a 5,000 piece puzzle of a lighthouse and rocky shoreline that my homeroom teacher had on a table in 3rd grade, and it was frustrating watching the other kids trying to force pieces together. I had my sight-puzzling abilities back then, and they insisted that I was cheating somehow. Still, it was way above the level of little kids. It took months to finish (a few pieces a day doesn't get very far!) The puzzle you finished sounds neat. I just ordered one today that is glow-in-the-dark, with wolves under a full moon. It sounds neat. Last week I did a holographic 3D puzzle that made me sick to my stomach. Every time I moved, the hologram moved, only scattered over hundred of pieces!
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
11 Apr 18
@Starmaiden It's happily contained in its box. I don't think I'll see it any time soon. lol
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• Canada
11 Apr 18
@OneOfMany That would give me motion sickness also.
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