Beautiful Indian beach scene. I seem to enjoy doing puzzles with water lately.
Trefl puzzles are quite cheap, and I’ve usually found them to be good value, but this time there were quite a few tabs where the top layer had separated. There are two on this photo:
Anyway, still an enjoyable puzzle.
Educa has a series of 1000 piece puzzles with miniature pieces. The puzzles measure 30×45 cm, where a normal-sized 1000 piece puzzle would usually be about 50×70 cm.
I really like these miniature puzzles, you can take them with you while travelling, should fit on almost any hotel table 🙂
The image shows various buildings by Antoni Gaudí.
Another miniature puzzle with beers:
I’ve done two more Educa miniature puzzles, the first in the late 90s:
The last Educa miniature puzzle that I did I still have. I completed it on May 4th, 2017, in a hotel room in Dortmund, on my last trip before I got my own apartment. It’s called Cans and shows a lot of soft drink cans. I actually have that image as a 2000 piece normal-sized puzzle as well. Anyway, unfortunately, no picture, because the phone it was on was so badly damaged that I couldn’t retrieve the photos on it (except some that had been stored as thumbnails. And yes, I did take it to a professional).
An old map of London, with a border of notable places and horrible glare on the photo. This was quite difficult, one of the hardest map puzzles I’ve done.
An aptly named puzzle 🙂 I’m back in Dortmund for the weekend, and I won’t have much time to puzzle, but this one didn’t take long.
In the autumn of 2013, I took 18 months off work to study. As a going-away present, a colleague had a puzzle made for me. I work in a library, and the image is the return unit that sorts returned items into bins.
Clementoni had a series of puzzles with an old and a modern photo of the same place, here the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. I haven’t done any other puzzles in the series, but there was definitely one with photos of London.
Done! This was a bit slow at first, but once I got going it was easy and very funny.
On the left side, there are scenes from ancient history, and on the right side space travel and computers.
Finally some proper progress on Mathmaniacs. The person sitting at the computer is playing a game called Stone Age Manager.
Despite being 50, I only very recently got a driver’s license and a car (I don’t really need one, it’s more of a luxury), and on Saturday I drove about 100 km north to Hämeenlinna and spent the day going through local flea markets looking for puzzles. Exercising enormous self-restraint I came back with only six puzzles:
The prices were much lower than online or in Helsinki.
One thing has started to bother me: where are all the Heye puzzles? I hardly ever see used Heye puzzles on offer in Finland, but I know many new ones are sold. I’ve bought Heye puzzles since the 90s, and the local store where I got Opus 2 always has all the new Heye puzzles. In fact, I talked to their jigsaw puzzle expert once (they have a lot of board games, not just jigsaws), and he confirmed that they always get all available Heye puzzles. So where do they all go? Perhaps they get sold on eBay for large sums? Still, not everyone would realize some Heye puzzles are valuable, surely? It’s a mystery.
Heye released at least three puzzles with artwork by eBoy, a pixel art group. I only found out just now that it’s an art project, while I was doing the puzzles I thought it was some old video game I didn’t know about 🙂
I had two of the puzzles, New York and Tokyo (there was also one called Rio).
Not my favourites, I guess I prefer clean lines to visible pixels 🙂
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