Why do they say there are 100 pieces in a puzzle that actually has 108 pieces?

They had a few pieces left over at the end of the run in the factory you were the lucky one to receive them. who knows ? toss them and forget them. better to have more, than not enough.

Those bloody “they” again, always ganging up on the unwary. We suggest that you ignore it.

108 doesn’t look as pretty on the box.

This reminds me of rebbel’s question about how many crisps are really in a can of Pringles. The company probably doesn’t expect people to sit down and count the puzzle pieces (and subsequently be bothered by the mislabeling) and opted to provide a target mark: 50, 100, 500, 1000, and so on, give or take a few pieces.

Shhhhhh…...,I would keep quiet about it. You have got 8 jigsaw pieces for free!

I saw one that said 105 pieces and thought it was odd that they would be so precise. I’m good with them rounding off. I just need a general idea to make a judgment call on the level of difficulty.

For the same reason they say there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte that actually has 1,024 ~

The difficulty or age level of a jigsaw puzzle is gauged by roughly knowing how many pieces it has—100, 250, 500, 1000, etc. It’s essentially a log scale. In your case the difference between 108 and 100 pieces is negligible logarithmically. Besides, does anyone actually count the pieces as they assemble the puzzle? Having often been hypnotically swallowed into a vortex of wasted time working jigsaw puzzles, I’ve abstained altogether for years. I’ve worked puzzles that were basically rectangular grids of pieces such as you describe. They can be difficult even if not very imaginative puzzle-wise.

In a perfect world the box tells exactly how many pieces are contained therein. “Truth in labeling.” Maybe we can organize a mob…

you actually counted them? Take it back to the store and get a refund. You wanted a 100 piece puzzle not a 108 peice puzzle. You lucked out because you got 8 extra peices for free. You should be honest and tell the store.

For the extra 8 pieces: try a hammer.

When you put it together, you have spares? Throw them away and put the pieces back in the box. If you are anal, take a sharpie and line out the 100 and write in 108.

Put them in the freezer or put ‘em in pasta. That’s teach those dastardly puzzle makers! (WHY would you even think of counting the pieces?? LOL!)

Darn it! Now I’m going to have to buy a 100 piece puzzle to see if it lays out in rows…

Because either “They” can’t count or “They” suspect the people that are working them (the puzzles) can’t count to 100 yet. LOL

Sigh. The real answer is “It has 100 pieces, more or less.” They seriously aren’t going to determine exactly how many pieces each individual puzzle has. The cost of the puzzles would sky rocket.

Explain it to a 6 year old who counted the pieces

Choke!!! That’s too funny!!!