Instructions to Build a LEGO Puzzle
For each issue of BrickJournal Magazine, the BrickNerd team creates instructions for a LEGO mini-model to go with the theme of the cover story. With their issue celebrating the diversity within the AFOL community a few years ago, we decided to create a puzzle!
We chose this model for this specific issue because a single puzzle piece is a fun and instantly recognizable build, but if you make many and combine them, they become even more beautiful together.
The instructions are for a single puzzle piece, but you can use them to make four puzzle pieces in almost any color. The elements you will likely have to swap due to color availability are the 1x2 bricks with the curved top and the SNOT bricks (instead of the BrickHeadz SNOT brick or two of the half-version, you can use two 1x1 SNOT bricks or a single 1x2 SNOT brick). But there are many options depending on the pieces you have on hand. Play around and see what works—a rainbow version with lots of different colors would work too!
The instructions provided create pieces that can easily slide into each other without any visible studs, but you could also make the puzzle pieces connect by substituting the two 1x2 bricks with curved top for the more common 2x2 brick with a curved top and two studs.
We hope you have as much fun building this puzzle as we had creating it for you. You can download a pdf of the instructions that BrickJournal published here. And until next time, stay nerdy about the bricks!
Best of BrickNerd - Article originally published July 18, 2021.
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