The Cadbury Roses Gift Jigsaw Puzzle

How would you like to add this Cadbury Gift to your jigsaw puzzle hobby? Talk about combining the best of life's little treasures together! Yummy!

What is your opinion? Is this a jigsaw puzzle cheat sheet? If there is a poster included with the exact same measurements of the actual jigsaw puzzle, how would you use it?

Method #1: Would you set the poster beside your work area to use as a guide?

Method #2: Would you set the poster in the work area and build the puzzle on top of it using it as a guide?

Would you consider Method #2 to be cheating? I know this may ruffle a lot of puzzlers....especially those that do not even use the box cover image to assist with assembling their puzzles, much less a poster included.

However, take a look at this Cadbury Candy jigsaw puzzle. It is presented as a jigsaw puzzle gift with chocolate candy inside.

Do you think they purposely used a poster size 'cheat'-sheet to be the exact same size of the actual jigsaw puzzle to assist with the assembly for the 'would-be-recipients' of this gift?

I DO!

Take a look at the above image. It appears nearly impossible to most non-puzzlers, therefore it would limit the amount of purchases of this candy gift. People who know puzzlers would likely buy it for them knowing it covers their perfect gift goal - chocolates and a very tricky yet colourful jigsaw puzzle.

It is still very attractive to the puzzler too because it has good elements of a puzzle and the chocolate candy is a bonus. I think the image is kinda ironic in the sense of 'eye-candy'. It really is an image of candy, it has candy in the box and the image holds the elements of tricky and challenging.

I received this gift from my Facebook 'phantom-friend' Helen SS. (Those who follow these posts will know that she does not have access to Facebook but sees the 'Feed'). When I saw this gift I was immediately thrilled as many of you would be too. Chocolates and a puzzle united - YES!

While eating the candy, I contemplated on how to complete this 500 piece puzzles ....ok so the border pieces were the easiest to pick out of the box.