'She put real effort into messing with me': Woman gets back at puzzle-obsessed ex by charging him for missing pieces

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 29, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

The best way to get back at an ex involves personalizing your payback. It's one thing to post a bunch on social media about how much fun you're having and how much you've moved on since the breakup. It's also one thing to block someone outright. Those options might be petty, but they are also uninventive. What you really need to do, if payback is necessary, is to find something niche about your former partner and see if you can use that to your advantage.

Now, payback is not pretty and it's not something we necessarily support on FAIL Blog. That being said, this lady knew exactly how to get back at her ex, who she dated for a few years but who she knew for about two decades prior to their relationship. She knew this dude inside and out, and one thing about him that was unique was the seriousness with which he approached solving puzzles.

Keep scrolling below to see what happened when her ex-boyfriend discovered a few puzzle pieces missing and the lengths he had to go to get them back. For more stories like this, check out this funny store about some sandwich thieves. 

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    r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/JustABitOfDeving 5 hours ago My ex had the foresight to plan out her devilish revenge on me many months in advance
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    My ex and i have known each other since we were teenagers and have always been close. We're very different people though, so we never gave a relationship a try. That changed when we were both in our mid 30s and both ended up being single right around the same time,
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    shortly before winter. Bad timing. Going through a breakup and drinking together while huddling up on the couch for warmth led to more and we ended up dating. Yes, it was a disaster. 3 years of constant fighting until we finally called it quits. You'd be surprised how effectively you can hurt someone's feelings when you've known their wishes and deepest, darkest secrets for 20+ years.
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    We were both really hurt by what we said each other. I did what i do in these situations and went on a small holiday for a few days.
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    Perfect time for her to gather stuff from my house and move out. That's when she did something that really with my head many months in the future.
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    One of my favorite hobbies is doing jigsaw puzzles. It calms me down after work and i can listen to audio books for hours while doing it. And i don't mean some 500 piece puzzle that you can do in an evening, i mean huge puzzles with 15k+ pieces (largest was 42k). I've got a whole room in my basement with a huge, custom built table just for puzzles. It's great, because the puzzle can just stay on the table for weeks/months while i plug away at it and there's no chance of actually bumping pieces o
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    Why is that hobby important? Because she knew how much i enjoy it. She could've just smashed the puzzle i was working at at time or destroyed the table when she moved out,
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    but no, she simply grabbed a big handful of pieces. Not enough to be noticeable right away, but you're gonna notice when you're getting close to finishing it.
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    Many months later we still weren't talking all that much. We just needed time to cool off. I kept doing my jigsaw puzzle and got close to finishing it. That's when i started to notice that some pieces were definitely missing. Being the nerd that i am, i complained about it in our friends chat group. I blamed the manufacturer
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    for making a low quality puzzle. My ex is in that group and saw my messages. Barely 10 minutes went by when she sent a single picture without a comment. It was one of my puzzle pieces with a small note next to it that read "5€". The chat was erupting with laughter, cheers and my frustration.
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    She didn't write anything. A day goes by and another picture appears. This time the piece was laying on the floor in her basement with a "10€" next to it. This went on for days. Every day a new picture in a new location with ever increasing ransom demands. She put real effort into messing with me.
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    Can you imagine how frustrating it is when every day, at the exact same time, you know what's gonna be posted in your friends chat group? You open the app and yep, there it is, your friends laughing their off at your misfortune.
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    She could've just thrown those pieces away, but she kept them for months just to t me! Kudos to her. A truly devilish move and i really respect. In retrospect it actually makes me chuckle.
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    We've patched things up since then and we're back to being really good friends. The h were exchanged for a few bottles of wine. Nobody can with your head like your friends...
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    Odd-Phrase5808 4 hr. ago "The h were exchanged for a few bottles of wine" broke me I love this for you guys that you were able to resolve your differences and save your friendship. Your ex is genius at petty revenge - never her off again or you'll drive yourself insane just wondering what she might do � 389 Reply Share
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    Aluminautical. 5 hr. ago Revenge-revenge would have been to screen grab, scale, and print them out, mount to card stock, cut them out and install them in the puzzle. Post the completed puzzle pic when done. 252 Reply Share
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    VeronicaMarsIsGreat . 3 hr. ago This might be the best revenge I've ever read on this sub. Very irritating, completely harmless and a happy ending.
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    D 4 hr. ago hTheNorth If she really hated yours, she'd have grabbed a bunch of pieces from one box, put them in another and repeat that cycle a couple of times.
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