TheJuggler wrote:Not sure how anyone else feels, but I'm losing interest somewhat in the Gold puzzle.
I am perhaps one of a few who came to the series quite late, and solved all 4 main series (plus black - thanks Smiteo!) within a couple of months of starting, and I will fully admit that I was hooked. I really wanted to move from one to the next as soon as opening each puzzle.
Now I have waited 8+ months for Gold which was (at the point I started) just a month from completion. Yes, I know many have waited FAR longer for gold, so perhaps feel differently.
The problem I have just now, is that despite having loved opening the first four, I'm now somewhat less bothered about opening Gold. Yes, I'll spend time on it, and maybe if I'm lucky I'll get hooked again, and just want to open it. Here's hoping.
The algorithm puts me off, as I love mechanical puzzles. Too much of my work life is mathematical/algorithmic puzzles, and I would rather not do that for fun, however it's part of the puzzle, and I'm sure I'll solve that part too.
For now, I'm happy to have solved the first four, and I've made a number of good friends here, and been introduced to many more puzzles, rekindling a love I have had for many, many years, on which I had not spent as much time as I should. I wait to see how much enthusiasm I have for gold when it is in my hands.
Personally, the fact that there has been this level of quality control, the fact this puzzle is going to have so many more pieces (which excites and scares me as to what is going to be going on in that puzzle) and that fact that this is going to be the top one to beat has me way more excited then when new first news broke out on it.
It might be a little while until I have leveled up to it but I am definately going to take a crack at it.
I have seen some puzzles of equal or higher cost and quality is far lower. IMHO this is what makes them so good is the craftmanship and the feeling of progression with them and the new tricks you must learn about. If they were to somehow get put in chain store in the states these things would sell like crazy! They are just so different and durable. I have quite a collection of puzzles and these are my favorites.
Don't mean I don't puzzle anything else but I really love how these things get me thinking.
Anyways, yeah, the waiting has been murder for those who have completed the others but with the amount quality that goes into these things, the legwork done to fine the right people to engineer and reate these things, and the fact that this will be the hardest one to crack has me excited.
In short, the level of quality will be worth the wait. What I *don't* want is a crap product and for it to be rushed out. I think if the quality was not to this level it would be much more difficult to wait and it would be more tempting to cancel. Service here has been excellent and the puzzles I have cleared of both Obsession and Metals have been excellent. I have no issues waiting from anything with the Maze R on it.
I am sure as you start getting into gold the puzzle bug will bite again.
